Vettel: “I thought about leaving F1”

Sebastian Vettel he would have considered abandoning the Circus disheartened by the technical direction taken, which in his opinion was far from the romantic idea of ​​car racing.

“When suddenly they take away two cylinders and everything is controlled by a computer you wonder what connection you have left with racing – explained Auto Motor und Sport – So I tried to find a reason to stay and in the end I realized that even though the single-seaters had become slower, they continued to be superior to those of the other categories".

Subsequently speaking about the decision made official last October to separate from Red Bull who raised him specified: “Continuing with them would have been the simplest path given that I know the team well, the people who work there, the weak points, the strong ones and above all the value of the new project, but thinking about it I thought it was the case of jumping into the dark and a change of scenery. If I had had any doubts about the validity of the choice, I would not have made it."

Chiara Rainis