After the end of the 2020 season, Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari will go their separate ways. In 2021, the four-time world champion will be hoping for more joy with Aston Martin. For six years, Sebastian Vettel did his best to win the Formula One title for Ferrari. Had he done so, it would have been Vettel’s fifth title and Ferrari’s first since 2007. Instead, a project that began with so much hope now ends ingloriously and unfinished.
The news of Vettel’s departure came in spring, and in truth it was more of a sacking. Vettel wanted to stay and talk about extending his contract, but Ferrari planned without him and signed Carlos Sainz as his replacement. His final year was accompanied by a career low finish in the drivers’ championship — 13th.
Ferrari said Vettel left huge footprints at the team, said team boss Mattia Binotto. Vettel’s response was a bit more sober. “We respect one another,” Vettel said of Binotto to “Gazzetta dello Sport”, before adding: “but there was never a love between us, and that is fundamental.”
Francesco Cigarini, the mechanic who suffered a broken leg when he was ran over by Kimi Raikkonen in 2018 at the Bahrain Grand Prix, sent a message to Sebastian Vettel ahead of the German driver’s last race with the Maranello team:
“Tomorrow I will wear this helmet, proud as always, even more. Because I will also wear Sebastian’s dedication and the years spent together in red. CIAO CIGONE (big Ciga), YOU ARE FERRARI. SV 2015-2020”
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