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It wasn’t just last season that the team’s harmony was severely clouded multiple times, questioning their number one status caused violent friction. Team boss Mattia Binotto’s statement confirms how much the fronts between Vettel and the Italian racing team tightened in the end: it was the best decision for both sides. Not surprisingly, talks about the contract extension have failed.
“We noted that there was no longer a common desire to stay together by the end of this season,” Vettel said in a Ferrari press release on Tuesday. “To achieve the best possible results in this sport, it is important that everyone involved works in perfect harmony.” The financial aspect was irrelevant, the 32-year-old emphasized after rumors recently surfaced that Ferrari only gave him one. I have offered a contract for much less than a year.
Vettel does not meet expectations
Vettel had signed a three-year contract before moving from Red Bull Racing to Ferrari in 2015 and agreed with Scuderia to extend it to three more years until 2020. At first, everything went as planned. While the role model Schumacher only managed his first win for Scuderia in the seventh deployment, Vettel hit in the second race and won the Malaysian Grand Prix. With a total of three victories, he finished third behind the duo of Mercedes Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
After the encouraging opening season, Vettel came out empty-handed in 2016, after four World Cup titles with Red Bull in his time from 2009 to the end of 2014 and 39 Grand Prix wins, he has only managed 14 wins. at Ferrari so far. While Schumacher started at Ferrari 2000 in his fifth year and won his world championship titles number three to seven, Vettel was only seen twice as the vice world champion (2017, 2018). Last year Vettel had only one victory and fifth place in the World Cup standings.
