Vettel moved on to Formula 3, where he never managed to claim the grand prize, but that was because his fame was already overtaking him and his rise up the ladder was accelerating. Vettel's tasted champagne as a winner five times in 2010 Image: AP As a debutante, Vettel was immediately runner-up, and the next year he came back and won an incredible 18 out of 20 races. Eventually, the youngster was noticed, and promoted to the single-seater Formula BMW racing series. Vettel was born in 1987 in the southwestern German town of Heppenheim, and his father Norbert ensured that Sebastian was bitten by the motorsport bug very early.Īged four, Vettel first thrashed a go-kart around his parents' driveway, and his first successes - as with almost all modern racers - followed racing in go-karts in his youth. This world championship is the high point of an already stellar career. "I didn't know anything until I passed the checkered flag" "Baby Schumi" was what the German tabloid press once called him, but it was Michael Schumacher himself who pointed out earlier this year that Vettel had outgrown that nickname, and the youngster has now proved beyond any doubt that as world champion, he should stand in nobody's shadow.
After that, all you could really make out on the transmission were loud cries of celebration from the man with the glittering helmet. I love you," the 23-year-old German said with a quivering voice from the cockpit. Sebastian Vettel cried tears of joy after Sunday's race in Abu Dhabi, after his team radioed in to tell him he had clinched the World Championship, seemingly against all the odds.
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