Lewis Hamilton won the first F1 race in Austin on this day in 2012 after he defeated Sebastian Vettel in Red Bull who started from pole position, overtaking him on the longest straight with DRS assistance.

Sebastian Vettel was brilliant at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix driving Toro Rosso STR3 in which he claimed his first pole position and first victory in his career

Lewis Hamilton beat Sebastian Vettel in 2011 Chinese GP after the Red Bull driver celebrated in the first two races in Australia and Malaysia from pole position.

Sebastian Vettel was handed five place grid penalty for disobeying the yellow flags in the first part of qualifying, but that won’t significantly affect his race as he qualified in a disappointing 18th place.

Sebastian Vettel won the first race of the new F1 season for Ferrari on this day in 2017 after beating Lewis Hamilton with superior pace and strategy on warm day in Melbourne

Sebastian Vettel says he is missing around 100 laps in 2021 F1 pre-season testing due to new Aston Martin car problems, but he is not too worried and thinks there is no point in panicking.

Aston Martin F1 team boss Otmar Szafnauer says Sebastian Vettel is fully motivated ahead of the start of the new Formula 1 season and is already pushing the team forward with his ideas and questions thanks to his experience with winning teams.

Aston Martin F1 team principal and CEO Otmar Szafnauer believes they can get the best out of Sebastian Vettel and allow him to enjoy the driving again, but also warns him that it won’t be easy for him against new team-mate Lance Stroll who is ‘very, very fast’.

Sebastian Vettel says that he is sorry that in six years with Ferrari he failed to win the title, but that this failure will not bother him for the rest of his life and that he believes that he left the team as a better driver than he was.

Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko says Red Bull would have opted for Sebastian Vettel for 2021 instead of Sergio Perez had the German not already signed for Aston Martin and that they didn’t want to sign him earlier because they still believed in Alexander Albon.