Hamburg – The Formula 1 is facing the most spectacular change of drivers for nearly 20 years: The four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel will only drive five races for Red Bull and then leave the team after six years together at end of season. This gave the team before training for the Grand Prix of Suzuka known: “We would like to thank Sebastian, thank you for his incredible role he has played in Infiniti Red Bull Racing in the past six years,” it said in a press release. ” / p>
“It is a big step and of course one is hard to make such a decision,” Vettel wrote little himself later in a separate opinion. . He announced to make a statement “soon” to his plans for the future
A confirmation that the 27-year-old joins Ferrari, it was not at first, but Red Bulls team boss Christian Horner said: “You have he probably made a very lucrative offer. ” In the Scuderia Vettel could Spaniard Fernando Alonso inherit, which is expected to run from the new season for McLaren. 1996 was the change of the then two-time champion Michael Schumacher of Benetton catered to Ferrari for a similar amount of excitement.
Vettel’s Red Bull will take place at next year Daniil Kwjat from the B-team Toro Rosso. Vettel was also ascended to the 2009 season of Toro Rosso to Red Bull. He won with his team 38 39 Grand Prix victories this year, but he still managed to no success. After four won world championships in a row he went so far this year only afterwards, a chance to defend the title has not Vettel.
“You need something new”
Actually, his contract ran until the end of next year, to this he had always referred to in the last few weeks, when once again rumors of a change were loud. In Suzuka, he had replied on Friday at the official press conference on the direct question of a future Ferrari evasive. A report of the “Auto Bild Motorsport” Vettel had called wrong.
Now, he said:…. “I’m not running away from anything, but sometimes you need in life just something new And when the opportunity presents itself, you have access to, we differ in friendship It has nothing to do with the results, even if they are not up to what I expected. “
Horner said Vettel had informed him on Friday evening. According to reports, Vettel will have previously approved various PR activities in winter for Red Bull, the negotiations behind the scenes supposedly run for weeks.
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