Vettel's F1 retirement bombshell, and who will replace him
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Aston Martin driver Sebastian Vettel announced he will retire at the end of the season as the F1 circus gathered at the Hungaroring. Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw were there to bring you the reactions and the implications of his momentous decision, including who might end up taking his seat in 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The race is on, or should that be, off for Sebastian Vettel, who confirmed he will retire from Formula One at the end of the season. |
| 0:16.0 | But what does this mean for Aston Martin and what is next for the four times world champion? |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Edgraw, and joining us to answer those questions and many more is Scott Mitchell. |
| 0:27.9 | Well, Scott, we're just back from the Hungarra Ring Paddock, |
| 0:30.2 | so it's going to be a quick chat about Sebastian Vettel tonight, |
| 0:33.0 | but not a great surprise that he's announced his retirement, is it? |
| 0:36.8 | Not in the sense that we've known for a while he has been considering his future and that |
| 0:42.2 | this was an option. |
| 0:43.2 | So it's not like this has come completely out the blue or anything like that. |
| 0:47.4 | But I think it's a surprise in the sense that when the season started for him, because |
| 0:53.6 | obviously he had COVID and missed the first couple of races, |
| 0:56.5 | it started disastrously in Australia. |
| 0:58.7 | And it just looked like it just didn't seem like this was going to be a story that continued beyond 2022. |
| 1:06.4 | That just... |
| 1:07.1 | I remember doing a story with him from stuff he said at Imola saying this just sounds like a man who's talking about being retired at the end of the year. |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, and I think I said after Australia that this isn't something that he's going to want to continue. |
| 1:20.8 | So that was very much the vibe early in the season. |
| 1:24.2 | But then after the car got upgraded in Spain and they went to the tracks that seemed to |
| 1:29.9 | suit the car quite nicely, Monaco in particular, was good, but he had a good racing backer as |
| 1:35.1 | well, I think. |
| 1:37.3 | Everything changed. |
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