The start of the 2022 Formula 1 season could not have gone worse for Sebastian Vettel. He missed the first two races due to a corona infection, in Melbourne he threw his Aston Martin into the wall and was shaken violently. Since the perspective does not bode well, some are already puzzling over the future of the Heppenheimer in the premier class.
“I can imagine that Sebastian Vettel will lose his patience at some point,” ex-Formula 1 driver Timo Glock explains the situation around the four-time world champion in his “Sky” column a.
Because Vettel knows exactly how long the way out of such a low is, “the question arises whether he still wants to do it to himself,” Glock puzzles over how long Vettel will still be in the premier class.
In the eyes of the ex-racing driver, a potentially momentous countdown is already beginning for Aston Martin and Vettel.
“Now you have to wait for the next races and see how he can motivate himself and what he then decides for his future,” the “Sky” expert sees his former companion after only three races at the crossroads.
Schumacher feels sorry for Vettel
Ralf Schumacher also sees a few groundbreaking weeks ahead of Vettel. The weekend in Melbourne “was so bad that you almost feel sorry,” he judged after Vettel’s horror days Down Under, where the Aston Martin driver not only had problems in the race, but also in all other sessions, some of them with major problems had to fight.
Vettel himself does not want to stick his head in the sand just yet. Yes, the Aston Martin is a “challenge,” he admitted in Australia. Nevertheless, he and the team are still looking for solutions.
The four-time world champion also knows that the prospects are not particularly rosy given the gap to the competition. And so his forecast for the upcoming race in Imola in two weeks is correspondingly sober: “It can only get better.”