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Sebastian Vettel Breaks Silence on New Contract and Pay Cut Details

Published 04/17/2020, 1:43 PM EDT

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Sebastian Vettel is a very private and introvert person when it comes to discussing his life and future plans. Indeed, even Sebastian Vettel can’t get away from an online meeting. The German, who is typically so concerned about his privacy, converses with the press from home.

Through the Ferrari video meeting the German reports about his life during corona and about his arrangements for the season.

Sebastian Vettel says there is a “high possibility” he and Ferrari will concur on another agreement when the 2020 Formula 1 season resumes.

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Vettel is among those drivers who are out of agreement toward the year’s end. However, Ferrari has expressed the German is its “first choice” to combine with Charles Leclerc in 2021.

Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo and McLaren’s Carlos Sainz have been connected with a potential switch to if Ferrari ends its five-year relationship with Vettel.

Rumors propose that Ferrari is offering Vettel another agreement yet with less compensation. Albeit nothing is concrete, the four-time world champion is excited about expanding his stay at Maranello.

In spite of the vulnerability of the 2020 season, the four-time world champion is in this manner at his best arranged.

“I start my days early so I have more time to train”.

“Fortunately, I’m not dependent on a gym”, the Ferrari driver says. “I have all the equipment I need at home so I can keep training without problems”.

Will Sebastian Vettel take a pay cut

Sebastian Vettel earns £35m every year at Ferrari yet is set to forego a portion of that money during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Sebastian Vettel has affirmed he’s in chats with Ferrari about accepting a decrease in salary during the coronavirus pandemic. F1 has been diving into disorder by the overall clinical emergency, with the initial nine Grands Prix of 2020 canceled/postponed.

FIA is asking Teams to make a move to control costs because of the decreased income from race weekends, sponsorship arrangements, and broadcasting plans.

The German surely doesn’t want to give any headlines for it.

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“I’ll discuss this with the team”, he says.

“We still don’t know what the team will look like. I’ve always made such decisions with privacy and I won’t suddenly discuss the subject to polish up my image.”

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Abhay Aggarwal is sports analyst at EssentiallySports. Having joined ES in early 2020, he has over 300 NASCAR, Formula 1, and Tennis articles to his name. Abhay has been an avid motorsports fan for over a decade, and he even attended the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in 2011.
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