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Superstition is the belief that did not depend on human explanation or logical information. However, it is associated with old thoughts regarding enchantment. Today we take you to a road less traveled. F1 is a highly competitive game. Drivers and teams work hard to get even a single point. There are some big names from the F1 grid who believes in superstitions. We are talking about Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Sergio Perez.

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Michael Schumacher, the 7-time F1 world champion also used to have some superstitions.

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He is known for continually keeping a toy hairbrush he got from his little girl close by. Indeed, a charm his better half gave him, he constantly kept these fortunate things concealed in his race overalls.

In 2004, he had dismay before the race in Bahrain when he found that he’d left a special necklace, given to him by his wife and highlighting the initials of his family, in his lodging. The missing thing was hurriedly recovered by a Ferrari colleague and Schumacher proceeded to win the race

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That is not all, upon his arrival to Formula One of every 2010 with Mercedes, he mentioned having another race number. He said, “Ross Brawn knows I like odd numbers.”

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Sebastian Vettel and his superstitions

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Throughout the years the German has filled his race suit pockets with objects as peculiar as a little metal pig to a one-penny coin that he found in the city in Indianapolis during his F1 race debut in 2007.

However, most clear is the way Vettel customizes his race boots. If we see his footwear not long before a race, we may spot two sparkling bits of silver given to him by his grandma. It also includes decoration for St. Christopher, the benefactor holy person of the voyagers, which he puts under his shoelaces.

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With 53 race wins and four world titles surprisingly, the rabbit’s feet positively appear to have done the stunt so far in his vocation, as has his propensity for continually getting into the vehicle from a similar side. It is apparently F1’s most normal superstitious conduct among drivers.

He’s likewise got into the convention of uncovering a name for his vehicle toward the start of each season. He guarantees it builds a relationship with the vehicle. While it is anything but a superstition for every state, it is an entertaining custom he has from his Toro Rosso days. A portion of his names is ‘Kate’s grimy sister’ and ‘Unusual Kylie’.

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Sebastian Vettel has proceeded with the custom of naming his Formula One vehicles, initiating his 2020 Ferrari ‘Lucilla’.

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Abhay Aggarwal

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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. When he's not writing for ES, he can be found reading up about MMA or Baseball (MLB), or even winning one-off karting races in Abu Dhabi.

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