Sebastian Vettel information & statistics

Biography

Sebastian Vettel Biography

Sebastian Vettel driving the BMW Sauber F1.06 during the 2007 USA F1 GP

Sebastian Vettel’s first F1 appearance in 2007 was because of Robert Kubica’s horrific crash in Canada. Robert mercurially survived his crash, but because he had a concussion, he was unable to drive the BMW Sauber the next race.  On first race day Sebastian was only 19 years old and finished 8th to score his first point of his successful F1 career. After this amazing achievement Red Bull gave him a seat in their Toro Rosso F1 car 4 races later. He nearly missed his 1st podium and finished 4th place at the 2007 Chinese F1 GP later that year.

In the 2008 F1 season he raced for Toro Rosso the whole season. He drove next to 3 times Indy Cart champion Sebastien Bourdais. Vettel wasn’t intimidated by Bourdais and scored 31 more point than his teammate in his first full F1 season. He even scored his first pole position and victory this season on Monza for the 2008 Italian F1 GP and became the youngest driver ever to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel win his first F1 GP at Monza (2008)

Because of his strong focus, great consistency and 2008 victory, he replaced David Coulthard at Red Bull Racing for the 2009 season. At the age 21 he got to play with the big boys. He could really show what he was made of and scored 8th podium, 4 pole positions and 4 victories to finish 2nd in the 2008 drivers championship. He even ended up 2 places higher then his teammate Mark Webber, who is 11 year older.

The next 3 seasons he became F1 World Champion and proofed to be unbeatable because of his strong mentality, talent and great Adrian Newey designed F1 cars. His biggest achievements where the 2012 Abu Dhabi F1 GP and the 2012 Brazilian F1 GP. The 2012 F1 drivers title fight was hard and only Fernando Alonso was a real threat to his 3rd consecutive F1 drivers title. In the 2012 Abu Dhabi F1 GP he had to start the race from the pitlane, because he was disqualified during the qualifying session for the race. After fighting hard and making the right strategy choices he was able to finish 3rd and on the podium and only lost 3 points on Alonso.

Sebastian Vettel becomes 2012 F1 drivers Champion

In the last race of the season Alonso still could win the title. The difference between them was 13 points. So Alonso had to finish on the podium and Vettel ‘only’ had to finish 7th. Vettel qualified 4th and Alonso 7th, but Vettel had a terrible start and dropped a lot of places in the first few corners of the race. Alonso had a great start in his Ferrari and gained several places and was driving 4th after 2 corners.To make things even worse Vettel spun in the first lap and almost eliminated himself by crashing into Bruno Senna’s Williams. He was just holding up his RB8 and could continue as dead last.
The mental pressure on Vettel was immense now. He had to pass almost 15 cars to be champion in a wet race. Alonso was driving strong but was not able to pass the cars before him. It was because of Hulkenberg who run into race leader Lewis Hamilton that he could finish 2nd. So Vettel had to finish 6th to be champion now. He drove the race of his life and passed everybody he had to pass to finish 6th and win the 2012 F1 drivers title.

Even though Sebastian Vettel is only young of age he already has broken many F1 records.

A list of some amazing F1 records:

• Youngest ever F1 driver – 19 years 354 days (8th – 2007 USA F1 GP)
• Youngest driver to score points - 19 years 354 days (8th – 2007 USA F1 GP)
• Youngest driver to qualify pole position - 21 years 78 days (Sep 14th 2008 Italy)
• Youngest driver to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix - 21 years 79 days (Sep 14th 2008 Italy)
• Youngest driver to win a Formula 1 drivers championship
• Youngest driver to win 2 Formula 1 drivers championships
• Youngest driver to win 3 Formula 1 drivers championships
• Youngest driver to win 3 Formula 1 drivers championships in a row

Championship Results

Sebastian Vettel F1 Championship Results

Year	Team	Engine	Races	1st	2nd	3rd	Podiums	Poles	Laps	Fastest	Avg Pts	Points
2013	Red Bull	Renault	5	2	0	1	3	2	293	2	17.80	89
2012	Red Bull	Renault	20	5	3	2	10	6	1162	6	14.05	281
2011	Red Bull	Renault	19	11	5	1	17	15	1079	3	20.63	392
2010	Red Bull	Renault	19	5	2	3	10	10	1066	3	13.47	256
2009	Red Bull	Renault	17	4	2	2	8	4	847	3	4.94	84
2008	Toro Rosso	Ferrari	18	1	0	0	1	1	810	0	1.94	35
2007	BMW Sauber Toro Rosso	BMW Sauber Ferrari	8	0	0	0	0	0	395	0	0.75	6

Race Results

Sebastian Vettel F1 GP Race Results

Podium Finishes

Sebastian Vettel F1 Podium Finishes

Pole Positions

Sebastian Vettel F1 Pole Positions

Teammate Comparison

Sebastian Vettel Teammate Comparison