What happened to Seb? By Peter Windsor
For a while it seemed as though Sebastian Vettel could touch the sky: the German won four Drivers' World Championships in a row from 2010-13 with Red Bull - and still he was only 27. Then Daniel Ricciardo began to out-pace him. In response, Seb switched to Ferrari, where he won 14 races - but not another championship. His career then ended ignominiously at Aston Martin in 2021-22. Responding to a viewer's question in his recent livestream, Peter in this excerpt offers an opinion about why Seb's career flattened-out so dramatically.
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