And finally he secured a pole to flag victory, becoming the youngest F1 World Champion, after driving a remarkable race at the Abu Dhabi GP in 2010. In 2009, becoming part of Red Bull's senior F1 squad, Red Bull Racing, he took the team's first win in its fifth season of competition. All this giddy fame, and he was only 21 and in his 22nd race. He dominated the race and went on to win, making him the youngest driver to stand on top of an F1 podium. In his first full season in 2008, he won his first pole at Monza, in the Italian Grand Prix. A week earlier in Japan he had punted Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber out of second place and himself out of third. That same year, he secured a brilliant fourth place for Scuderia Toro Rosso at the Chinese Grand Prix, losing to two Ferraris and a McLaren, and went on to became the youngest driver to ever lead an F1 race.

India's first Grand Prix has Rs 1,000 cr riding on it By the time the season folded up, he was being closely watched by the big names in the game and he soon moved over to Toro Rosso (owned by Red Bull). His disarming smile, a well-tuned sense of humour, and at-home ease hides a mind of steel and a love for speed that would leave most others dizzy.Īt just 19, he won a point on his debut race at the 2007 US Grand Prix becoming the youngest-ever driver to score in a Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel's shaggy blond hair curls in a mumpleasing kind of way around his left temple.

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