32 year old Sebastian Vettel, who have won Formula 1 championship 4 times (in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013) will leave Ferrari Formula 1 team after this season when his contract with the team ends.
Vettel recently said that he wants to race for Ferrari in the following season too, but something has changed as he has just said there is “no longer a common desire” to work together. It’s unclear what kind of disagreements there have been, but Vettel stated they are not money related.
Sebastian Vettel’s career in Formula 1 started back in 2006 when he became test driver for BMW Sauber F1 Team. In 2007 season he started competing but in the second part of season he changed teams and went to Scuderia Toro Rosso.
Sebastian Vettel has won 4 championships: all of them with Red Bull Racing (In 2013 season it was renamed to Infiniti Red Bull Racing):
- 2011 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 1st
- Points: 256
- Car: Red Bull RB6
- Engine: Renault RS27-2010 2.4 V8
- 2012 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 1st
- Points: 392
- Car: Red Bull RB7
- Engine: Renault RS27-2011 2.4 V8
- 2013 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 1st
- Points: 281
- Car: Red Bull RB8
- Engine: Renault RS27-2012 2.4 V8
- 2014 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 1st
- Points: 397
- Car: Red Bull RB9
- Engine: Renault RS27-2013 2.4 V8
In 2015 Sebastian Vettel joined Scuderia Ferrari to chase his dream of winning a championship with the manufacturer as his childhood hero was Michael Schumacher who raced for Ferrari. Unfortunately it seems like this dream will remain unfulfilled. Closest he has come to fulfilling this dream was in 2017 and 2018 where he ended up second in championship, although both years there was significant point gap from the winner – Lewis Hamilton.
Sebastian Vettel Formula 1 career in Scuderia Ferrari
- 2015 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 3
- Points: 278
- Points behind leader: 103
- Car: Ferrari SF15-T
- Engine: Ferrari 060 1.6 V6 t
- 2016 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 4
- Points: 212
- Points behind leader: 173
- Car: Ferrari SF16-H
- Engine: Ferrari 061 1.6 V6 t
- 2017 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 2
- Points: 317
- Points behind leader: 46
- Car: Ferrari SF70H
- Engine: Ferrari 062 1.6 V6 t
- 2018 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 2
- Points: 320
- Points behind leader: 88
- Car: Ferrari SF71H
- Engine: Ferrari 062 EVO 1.6 V6 t
- 2019 Formula 1 Championship
- Place: 5
- Points: 240
- Points behind leader: 173
- Car: Ferrari SF90
- Engine: Ferrari 064 1.6 V6 t