Sebastian Vettel: "Fernando Alonso does not need any advice at Aston Martin"

MADRID, 12 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The German driver Sebastian Vettel, who will end his sports career at the end of this season, is clear that the Spanish Fernando Alonso "does not need any advice" for his part in the face of his arrival at Aston Martin, a team from 2023 that this year has not been able to confirm "the high hopes" that they had deposited.

"Fernando doesn't need any advice and I'm not sure he's following any advice, but he doesn't need it anyway. He's been around for so long and he's seen so much that he'll be fine," Vettel said in an interview on Aston's website. Martin.

The four-time world champion pointed out that the man from Oviedo was "probably" his toughest rival "when he was at Ferrari", although throughout his career he stayed with the Englishman Lewis Hamilton. "Especially when I was at Ferrari, Lewis has always been up there," he said.

On his retirement, the one from Heppenheim once heard someone say that one is only "remembered until the last person who remembers you dies". "There will probably come a time when no one will remember me, nothing lasts forever," he admitted.

"People can decide if they want to remember me, but I wouldn't be offended if they don't. It's not important to me how I'll be remembered. I always try to be successful, sometimes I don't, but above all, I always try to treat people with respect and be kind. If that's what people remember about me, that will make me happy."

The F-1 has given "many lessons in life" to the German. "It's up to you if you choose to learn from them. Being a Formula One driver is a fast-paced way of life and I think this is the case for most professional athletes. You have everything that happens in normal life, but it's more compressed in terms of time," he warns.

For this reason, the German driver assures that he had to "mature earlier" than his childhood friends because he took his career "very seriously" to reach Formula 1 and dealt "with many adults".

Vettel has spent the last two seasons at Aston Martin, two years that "have been challenging because the car was not as competitive" as they had hoped. "This year we wanted to make a significant improvement over last year, but we were wrong and we are currently where we finished last year," he lamented, clarifying that he is not "pointing fingers" and saying "a bad job" has been done. . "I'm just being realistic. We had high hopes, but we fell short," he confessed.

"Would I retire if I had been very competitive for the last three or four years, winning races, fighting for championships or maybe winning another one? I could have come to the same decision, it's impossible to say, but it has crossed my mind. "added the four-time world champion.

The German was the great dominator of the World Cup between 2010 and 2013 and leaves the 'great circus' with, so far, 53 victories. "When you're not winning anymore, you think about how good it would feel to win again. And when you win again, it's a great moment and it means more to you than the previous win because of the emptiness in between," he said.