Last week while watching BBC 2010 F1 review on Sebastian vettel homecoming in Milton Keynes one can only see a new schumi in making. Champagne and cheers greeted Sebastian Vettel on his first visit to the Red Bull factory as Formula One's 33rd and youngest world champion. But as the music boomed and the speeches flowed, the German's mind played back those moments immediately after he crossed the line at Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and thought the title had gone. 'It was funny, I knew I had won the race,' said Vettel at the team's Milton Keynes base. 'But I was ready to accept the outcome of the championship no matter what because you don't win or lose it in one afternoon.
'I was waiting for my engineer to make the call. He came on the radio and said we had to wait until the others had finished. I already thought it hadn't worked and I hadn't won. He went through the positions and then told me I was world champion. Everything stopped.' It was then the world heard him dissolve into hopelessly tearful words over the team radio. Since then life has been a whirl: a visit to Red Bull's headquarters in Salzburg, at which his blubbing was replayed on video, and thence to the south Midlands homecoming.
The drink went with the flat $15,000 bonus each of them banked for their part in winning the constructors' championship. This, though, was principally Vettel's day and he looked more relaxed than any of the world champions I have seen within 48 hours of winning the title. His thoughts were already focused on next year. He is even testing back in Abu Dhabi before the week is over.
At 23, he has time to continue to rewrite the record books. Only one other German - Michael Schumacher - has ever won the world title, albeit seven times. Could Vettel eclipse that?'In terms of age all those options are open,' he said. 'But there is no guarantee.' What a prospect awaits us. Next season, if Schumacher persists with his comeback, there will be five champions on the grid. The standard is strong. The cast of outstanding drivers is studded with youth: Vettel, Robert Kubica and Lewis Hamilton. 'Ten years ago I watched Formula One on a Sunday and fell asleep,' said the champion. 'Michael was winning everything. From the inside and probably the outside this season was very exciting, with five guys in it almost to the end. Four to the final race. 'The cars are so close, separated by hundredths of a second. It was not easy to be top this season.' Visit my Website: [http://wanarua.com]
'I was waiting for my engineer to make the call. He came on the radio and said we had to wait until the others had finished. I already thought it hadn't worked and I hadn't won. He went through the positions and then told me I was world champion. Everything stopped.' It was then the world heard him dissolve into hopelessly tearful words over the team radio. Since then life has been a whirl: a visit to Red Bull's headquarters in Salzburg, at which his blubbing was replayed on video, and thence to the south Midlands homecoming.
The drink went with the flat $15,000 bonus each of them banked for their part in winning the constructors' championship. This, though, was principally Vettel's day and he looked more relaxed than any of the world champions I have seen within 48 hours of winning the title. His thoughts were already focused on next year. He is even testing back in Abu Dhabi before the week is over.
At 23, he has time to continue to rewrite the record books. Only one other German - Michael Schumacher - has ever won the world title, albeit seven times. Could Vettel eclipse that?'In terms of age all those options are open,' he said. 'But there is no guarantee.' What a prospect awaits us. Next season, if Schumacher persists with his comeback, there will be five champions on the grid. The standard is strong. The cast of outstanding drivers is studded with youth: Vettel, Robert Kubica and Lewis Hamilton. 'Ten years ago I watched Formula One on a Sunday and fell asleep,' said the champion. 'Michael was winning everything. From the inside and probably the outside this season was very exciting, with five guys in it almost to the end. Four to the final race. 'The cars are so close, separated by hundredths of a second. It was not easy to be top this season.' Visit my Website: [http://wanarua.com]