Put into oblivion the last year of his fluctuating Ferrari adventure, Sebastian Vettel in 2021 he found himself starting a new ‘sporting life’ with Aston Martin, a team that inherited cars and structures from Racing Point. However, if in 2020 the Silverstone team had been the great revelation of the season, coming close to third place in the constructors’ standings, the championship just ended proved to be quite different. With the less competitive car between those of the center-group Vettel and Lance Stroll could do little to get some satisfaction. However, the German managed to deliver a couple of flashes of his old class, hitting a spectacular one second place in Baku and replicating it in the Hungarian GP, before a disqualification linked to excessive fuel consumption excluded him from the order of arrival.
In the latest radio message addressed to his team, on the return lap of the Abu Dhabi GP, Vettel thanked the team, admitting that he had made several mistakes during this season. The German also promised the Aston Martin men and women that he would do much better next year. The leaders of the historic British team, however, seem very satisfied with Vettel’s first season in the green suit. This was confirmed by the words of the team principal Otmar Szafnauer to the site MotorsportWeek. “Vettel was brilliant – said Szafnauer – he is a man of integrity and works hard. He has a great work ethic, leaves no stone unturned“.
“Engineers like to work with him, mechanics love him as a person, he’s just a genuine guy. These things go a long way in life – continued the number one of the Aston Martin wall – I’ve known him for 15 years and everyone was talking about him the same way I’m talking about him now. I wasn’t surprised, but I was still happy that what I thought of him was confirmed by his actions “. Also in terms of performance on the track, according to Szafnauer Vettel managed to get the most out of your AMR21. “It took him four races to get to know us, to get to know the car and the power unit. He has done a good job ever since – he concluded – I think his greatest quality as a driver is to work tirelessly to get faster and faster. It also does this in the race. When a race starts, observe the other riders, the lines they are taking, and try to do something to be able to go faster or save tires or whatever needs to be done. This for me is his greatest asset “.
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