Sebastian Vettel is a German racing driver who races in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He is a four-time Formula One World Champion, having won consecutive titles from 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull Racing. Vettel holds the records for the most consecutive race wins and the most race victories in a single season, as well as accumulating the third most race wins, podium finishes and the fourth most pole positions. He has three children with his wife: Emilie, born in January 2014; Matilda, born September 2015; and a son, born November 2019.
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Sebastian Vettel is a German racing driver who races in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He is a four-time Formula One World Champion, having won consecutive titles from 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull Racing. Vettel holds the records for the most consecutive race wins and the most race victories in a single season, as well as accumulating the third most race wins, podium finishes and the fourth most pole positions. He was the closest challenger to Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in 2017 and 2018 but finished both seasons as runner-up with five wins in both seasons. His contract with Ferrari was not extended beyond the end of 2020, and he is signed to race for Aston Martin from 2021 replacing Sergio Pérez. He has three children with his wife: Emilie, born in January 2014; Matilda, born September 2015; and a son, born November 2019. He also appeared in advertisements for Head & Shoulders, and provided the voice of character Sebastian Schnell in the German version of the movie Cars 2. He lives in Thurgovia, Switzerland, amongst other racing drivers and is a fan of German football team Eintracht Frankfurt. He speaks English, French and Italian, and is fluent in German, Italian, French, and Italian. His childhood heroes were Michael Schumacher, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. He mentioned that he wanted to be a singer like Jackson, but realised that he did not have the voice. In 2016, Forbes estimated that his annual income was USD 41 million, Kimi Räikkönen, his teammate from 2015 to 2018, is a close friend.
He suggested in an interview that he was ‘terrible’ at school, but he passed his Abitur at Heppenheim’s Starkenburg-Gymnasium with a respectable grade. He began karting at the age of three, and began racing in karts series in 1995 at the aged of eight. He won various titles, such as the Junior Monaco Kart Cup in 2001. In 2003, Vettel was promoted to open-wheel cars in 2003, and was given a chance to test a Reynard Motorsport Champ Car in a two-day private test at the Homestead road course. A year later he won the 2004 Formula BMW AD championship with 18 victories from 20 races. In 2005, he drove for ASL Mücke Motorsport in the Formula 3 Euro Series, finishing second in the final standings with 63 points. In 2006, he was tested for the Williams Formula One team later that year as a reward for his Formula 3 success. He then went on to test for the BMW Sauber team. In 2007, he made his racing debut with the team at the 2007 United States Grand Prix, replacing the injured Robert Kubica. In 2008, he became the then-youngest pole-sitter and race winner at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix. In 2009, he joined Red Bull for the 2009 season, and became the youngest driver in history to win the World Drivers’ Championship in 2010. Three more titles in succession followed, while he dominated in 2011 and 2013.
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