Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel –my favorite F1 pilot- was borned on July 3rd 1987 in Heppenheim, Germany. Actually he is Red Bull’s pilot with Mark Webber. He was part of Toro Rosso team until 2008.

He is the third youngest driver to compete in a Grand Prix, the 2007 United States’ Grand Prix, exceeded only by the youth of Mike Thackwell and Jaime Alguersuari. He holds the record of being the youngest driver to achieve rating in the category in his first race. He is also the youngest to lead a Grand Prix, Japan’s 2007, and the youngest to get a pole position, a podium, and a victory in a single Grand Prix, achievements that he got in the Italian Grand Prix 2008.

Sebastian Vettel hopes to get his first world title the season, and showed it in Bahrain when he got the pole position beating the Ferrari drivers. During the race, Vettel holded the 1st position until lap 34 when a problem with a plug made him lower the speed of the car and he couldn’t defend against Ferrari or Lewis Hamilton; Nico Rosberg was close to take the 4th position, but Sebastian endured and finished 4th. After crossing the finish line, he left his RB6 aside.

In Melbourne he won his second pole of the year. During the race, at the beginning he held the first position with wet track and half wet tires, but on lap 25 a brake problem forced him to quit.

After two bitter race, Vettel finally achieved his awaited first race of the season at the Malaysian Grand Prix, where after having qualified in second position (behind his teammate Mark Webber) managed to win the Australian and showed the superiority of the RB6.

In Shanghai, the 4th race of the season, Sebastian got his third pole in four races, but in a mad race marked by rain the young German pilot couldn’t overcome the 6th position.

In Montmelo he arrived 3th after Fernando Alonso had an accident. And in Montecarlo after a lot of “safety cars” he arrived 2nd and became de co-head of this season world championship with 78 points.

But in Turquey both Red Bulls had a little crash when Vettel tried to overcome Webber leaving him away of the race. It was clearly a Vettel’s mistake when he tried to take Weeber away from the track.