Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel (; born 3 July 1987) is a German racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2022 for BMW Sauber, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Toro Rosso, Red Bull Racing, Red Bull, Scuderia Ferrari, Ferrari, and Aston Martin in Formula One ...

is a German former racing driver who won four Formula One World Championships. He entered Formula One in with

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, in place of the injured

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at the , finishing eighth to become the youngest driver to score a world championship point in Formula One. Midway through the season, Vettel joined

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for the rest of the year and . Vettel moved to the

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team in , and won his first world championship in , a season in which he became the youngest ever world drivers' title winner. Vettel won four titles in a row with Red Bull from to , which made him the youngest driver to win two, three and four world championships. After an unsuccessful year in in which he did not register a single victory, Vettel activated a clause in his contract allowing him to leave the Red Bull team. He moved to the Ferrari team in and drove for them until , twice finishing runner-up to

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of the Mercedes team in and . The final two seasons of Vettel's Formula One career saw him drive for the

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team. His first Grand Prix win came in the rain-affected on 14 September; Vettel became the youngest driver to win a Formula One race at 21 years, 2 months and 11 days. He won four races in his first season with Red Bull in 2009 and finished runner-up to

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. Vettel took a further 34 victories with Red Bull in his four world championship winning seasons. His 2013 season included 13 Grand Prix victories, which equalled seven-time world champion

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's record for most wins in a season. Vettel also took nine consecutive wins that year, from the to the to equal two-time world champion

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's record from to . The 2014 season was the first since his debut year that Vettel did not achieve a race victory. He won three races in his first season with Ferrari in 2015 and none in . This was followed by five victories each in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, one in and none in each of the 2020, and seasons. Vettel is currently ranked third in the all-time Formula One Grand Prix winners' list with 53 victories from 299 starts; the majority of his race victories (38) came with Red Bull; he has also won 14 races with Ferrari and 1 for Toro Rosso. His most successful circuit is the

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, the host track of the

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, where he has won 5 times, with 8

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finishes in 12 races. Vettel's largest margin of victory in his career was at the , a race where he finished 32.627 seconds ahead of the second-placed Ferrari of

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, and the smallest margin of victory was at the , where he beat

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's Lewis Hamilton by 0.630 seconds.

Wins

Key: * No. – Victory number; for example, "1" signifies Vettel's first race win. * Race – Race number in Vettel's Formula One career; for example "75" signifies Vettel's 75th Formula One race. * Grid – The position on the

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from which Vettel started the race. * Margin – Margin of victory, given in the format of minutes:seconds.milliseconds * – Driver's Championship winning season.

Number of wins at different Grands Prix

Vettel has won at 21 out of 39 different he has partaken in. The

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, the

Austrian Grand Prix The Austrian Grand Prix (german: Großer Preis von Österreich) is a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile sanctioned motor racing event that was held in , –, –, and then returned to the Formula One calendar in . History The A ...

, the

Azerbaijan Grand Prix The Azerbaijan Grand Prix ( az, Azərbaycan Qran Prisi) is a Formula One motor racing event that was held for the first time in . It is held on the Baku City Circuit, a street circuit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The event is due to take ...

, the

Dutch Grand Prix The Dutch Grand Prix ( nl, Grote Prijs van Nederland) is a Formula One motor racing event held at Circuit Zandvoort, North Holland, the Netherlands, from 1950 to 1985 and from 2021 onwards. It was a part of the World Championship from 1952, ...

, the

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix ( it, ) is a Formula One motor racing event held at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, often referred to as "Imola" after the town where it is located. The event takes the name "Emilia Romagna" fr ...

, the

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, the

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, the

Mexican Grand Prix The Mexican Grand Prix ( es, Gran Premio de México), currently held under the name Mexico City Grand Prix ( es, Gran Premio de la Ciudad de México), is a motor racing event held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. It first a ...

, the Mexico City Grand Prix, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

Russian Grand Prix The Russian Grand Prix (russian: Гран-при России, Gran-pri Rossii) was an annual motor racing event held at Sochi Autodrom – a permanent circuit built around the Olympic Park in Sochi – as part of the Formula One World Champio ...

, the

Sakhir Grand Prix Sakhir ( ) is a desert area located in the Southern Governorate of Bahrain, near Zallaq. It contains the Al-Sakhir Palace, built in 1870. Camping in Sakhir during the winter months is a popular activity in the country. Notable sites In the early ...

, the

Saudi Arabian Grand Prix The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix ( ar, جائزة السعودية الكبرى) is a Formula One motor racing event which took place for the first time in 2021. The inaugural edition of the race was held in Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. It was the fift ...

, the Styrian Grand Prix and the

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are the events he has entered and not won.

Number of wins at different circuits

Vettel has won at 21 out of 37 different race tracks he has competed on. The

Algarve International Circuit The Algarve International Circuit ( pt, Autódromo Internacional do Algarve), commonly referred to as Portimão Circuit, is a race circuit located in Portimão, Algarve region, Portugal. The development includes a karting track, off-road tra ...

, the

Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is a motorsport race track in Mexico City, Mexico, named after the racing drivers Ricardo (1942–1962) and Pedro Rodríguez (1940–1971). The circuit got its name shortly after it opened when Ricardo Rodr ...

, the

Baku City Circuit The Baku City Circuit ( az, Bakı Şəhər Halqası) is a motor racing street circuit located in Baku, Azerbaijan constructed near Baku Boulevard. A lap of the circuit is , making it the third-longest circuit on the Formula One calendar (after C ...

, the

Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours is a motor racing circuit located in central France, near the towns of Magny-Cours and Nevers, some from Paris and from Lyon. It staged the Formula One French Grand Prix from 1991 (succeeding Circuit Paul Ricard ...

, the

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, Circuit Zandvoort, the

Hockenheimring The Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg () is a motor racing circuit situated in the Rhine valley near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. Amongst other motor racing events, it has hos ...

Fuji Speedway is a motorsport race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and nati ...

, the

Imola Circuit The Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, better known as Imola, is a motor racing circuit in the town of Imola, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, east of Bologna. It is one of the few major international circuits to run in an an ...

, the

Indianapolis Motor Speedway The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is an automobile racing circuit located in Speedway, Indiana, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the home of the Indianapolis 500 and the Verizon 200, and and formerly the home of the United State ...

, the

Jeddah Corniche Circuit The Jeddah Corniche Circuit ( ar, حلبة كورنيش جدة) is a motor racing circuit built in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. The circuit staged the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on 5 December 2021 as the penultimate ...

, the

Losail International Circuit The Losail International Circuit or Lusail International Circuit (Arabic: حلبة لوسيل الدولية) is a motor racing circuit located just outside the city of Lusail, north of Doha, Qatar. Built in just under a year by 1,000 workers ...

, the

Miami International Autodrome The Miami International Autodrome is a purpose-built temporary circuit around Hard Rock Stadium and its private facilities in the Miami metropolitan area, Miami suburb of Miami Gardens, Florida. The track is long and features 19 corners with a ...

Mugello Circuit Mugello Circuit () is a race track in Scarperia e San Piero, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The circuit length is . It has 15 turns and a long straight. The circuit stadium stands have a capacity of 50,000. Grand Prix motorcycle racing host an ann ...

, the

Red Bull Ring The Red Bull Ring is a motorsport race track in Spielberg, Styria, Austria. The race circuit was founded as Österreichring (translation: Austrian Circuit) and hosted the Austrian Grand Prix for 18 consecutive years, from to . It was later sh ...

and the

Sochi Autodrom The Sochi Autodrom (russian: Сочи Автодром, Sochi Avtodrom), previously known as the Sochi International Street Circuit and the Sochi Olympic Park Circuit, is a permanent race track in the settlement of Sirius (urban-type settlement) ...

are the circuits he has driven and not won an event.

Notes

References

External links

Drivers: Hall of Fame: Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel: Involvement
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Wins

Number of wins at different Grands Prix

Number of wins at different circuits

See also

Notes

References

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