Fernando Alonso Looked Into the Crystal Ball, Warning Sebastian Vettel of “Bad News” After 4 Championships
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Fernando Alonso is a soothsayer. Sounds weird, right? What if we told you he predicted how Sebastian Vettel’s career would pan out post-2013, in 2013 itself? Well, that’s exactly what happened.
A video excerpt from a Fernando Alonso interview after the 2013 season has taken the F1 fans by storm. The interview was taken after Sebastian Vettel had won his 4th consecutive World Drivers’ Championship. Now that the German has decided to hang up his F1 boots, we see how his career panned out and how accurate Fernando was.
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Alonso predicted Sebastian Vettel’s future
Fernando Alonso is not just a two-time, back-to-back Formula one champion, but also a veteran of the game who knows it inside-out. Having experienced the highs and the lows of the sport, he knows how it works. The F1 fans just got to witness how brilliant his reading of the game is after a snippet from a 2013 video has gone viral.
In the video, Alonso is asked about what he feels about Vettel’s comparison to greats like Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. The question came at the back of Vettel winning 4 titles in comparison to Alain Prost, who too had won 4 titles in his career.
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Alonso replied, “I don’t know, time will tell us. When he will have a car like others, if he wins, he will be one of the legends of Formula 1.”
“When one day he has a car like the others, and he is 4th, 5th, 7th, these four titles will be bad news for him, because people will take these four titles even in a worse than what they are doing now so there are interesting times coming.”
Alonso was accurate on how different you are treated by fans when you are on top, compared to when you are not. While Sebastian has failed to win any title since then, people’s reactions certainly have changed.
How Sebastian Vettel’s career panned out post 2013 title win
The Mercedes era of dominance started in 2014. It also ended Sebastian’s championship winning streak. He could only manage a 5th position in 2014, with his teammate Daniel Ricciardo finishing 3rd. In 2015, he made a switch to Ferrari and performed better than his teammate Kimi Raikkonen, finishing 3rd.
It was 2017 when he emerged as a serious title-race contender, finishing 2nd. In 2018 again, he gave Lewis Hamilton a run for his money but finished behind the Briton.
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It was the turn of the decade in 2020 when he struggled for pace in Ferrari and finished 13th, 5 positions behind his young counterpart, Charles Leclerc.
In 2021, he switched to Aston Martin, finishing 12th with 43 points. Currently, he is languishing in 13th position again in a car that has seen 3 DNFs.
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All said and done, he still holds the record for the youngest championship winner. Young Formula 1 drivers can only dream of having a career as illustrious as his. Once the curtains are drawn on his career, we will all be tipping our hats to him.
Edited by:
Ranvijay Singh