Since it debuted in 2007, until his retirement in 2022, Sebastian Vettel He has starred in hundreds of overtaking. Some of them epic. The tributes are not over yet for him, and now the Formula 1 has done a compilation of the best actions of German throughout his sports career.
Of all of them, two of them were made to Fernando Alonso. one, in Silverstone in 2014. After several maneuvers, both cars arrive at Copse practically wheel to wheel, but Vettel it has the interior and finally it happens to him.
“He’s done the same thing again, he can’t do that. If I don’t get out of the way, he throws me off the track,” he said. Vettel by radio in an action that was to the limit.
In 2011, the two drivers were also very close to the limit in Monzawith Vettel lightly touching the grass to overtake Ferdinand. The Formula 1 also recalls the mythical finale this year in Japan, with Vettel finishing ahead of Alonso by 11 thousandths.
Touching the grass also happened to Valtteri Bottas in 2017, in a great maneuver to win the position from the Finn. In Silverstone in 2018 it was also launched with everything to overtake boots.
And it is that Vettel even has advanced before entering in the pits. In 2016 in Chinahe passed two cars in front of him to lose as little time as possible.
And in Monaco, a circuit that is characterized by how difficult it is to overtake, the German gave a ‘masterclass’ this year. Also, he did it in the rain, overtaking a alfa romeoa McLaren and a AlphaTauri. He also overtook in the penultimate corner of the circuit of Austin still Haas, to gain a position in the last meters. And in his last race in Abu Dhabiwent to one of the Red Bull.
The Formula 1 also highlights an overtaking in 2012 to Jenson Buttonanother in 2018 to hamilton in Austria and another in 2017 in China a Daniel Ricciardo. Finally, the last overtaking that rescues the Formula 1 It is an incredible picture in which there were four cars in parallel: Vettel, Hamilton, Pérez and Ocon.
“But here comes Sebastian Vettel!!!”
We’ve compiled the ultimate collection of Seb’s greatest overtakes
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—Formula 1 (@F1) December 6, 2022
