All the way to his victory on Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel found his mind roaming already to next week’s first in-season Formula One test and just how much he was looking forward to it.
The 29-year-old four-time champion, now 7 points clear of Mercedes’s Lewis Hamilton after winning two of the first 3 races, is cheering his finest begin to a season since his dominant 2011 Red Bull campaign.
That year he likewise won two of the first three and went on to achieve his second title.
The racing driver, who did not begin in Bahrain a year ago in a season that Ferrari completed without a victory, is having the time of his life again and enjoying the battle with Mercedes.
“The last half of the in-lap when all the fireworks existed and track was lit up, it was ‘I just love what I do’. I didn’t find any words,” he stated.
“I’m really enjoying it, the vehicle has been a satisfaction.”
2016 was the first, and to this day only, no-start of Vettel’s Formula One career, with the vehicle breaking down on the formation lap at the desert circuit, however Sunday showed an evening to savour.
The foundation for a title challenge laid in 2016 is flourishing.
Vettel won in Australia, ended up second to Hamilton in China and was then first once again in Bahrain– a race he won with Red Bull in 2012 and 2013.
“Compared to in 2016, I have started the race. That helped,” he stated.
