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#12 Sebastian Vettel
At twelve is a current driver in the sport and a four-time world champion with Red Bull Racing, Sebastian Vettel.
The German driver dominated the sport between 2010 and 2013 winning his titles four years in a row. Red Bull also won the constructors championship four times too.
After impressing in the junior categories, Red Bull signed Vettel to their young driver programme in 1998, in 2000 he was invited to join Red Bull junior team.
He was a third driver for BMW Sauber before making his big move to Toro Rosso in 2007, he impressed once again and was retained for 2008 and from then on he went from strength to strength.
He won his first GP and Toro Rosso’s only win in Italy that season which no doubt earnt him the switch to the Red Bull senior team for the 09 season.
He lost out to Jenson Button and Brawn GP in 2009 but in the 2010 season he went one better.
Despite not being top of the drivers standing for the whole of the season he won the championship at the final race in Abu Dhabi, as he finished with his fifth win of the season and became the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history.
After three more titles with Red Bull he decided he needed a change and in 2014 he agreed to join Ferrari for the departing Fernando Alonso for the 2015 season.
His first season with Ferrari saw him adapting to the team after being in the Red Bull programme for so long, he still managed to win three races that season which was three more than teammate Kimi Raikkonen.
However since Vettel joined the team Ferrari have not been able to win either the drivers or constructors title, losing out to Mercedes each year.
Both the 2017 and 2018 season has seen Vettel and Ferrari apply more pressure to Mercedes but once again the Silver Arrows reigned supreme. Could the 2019 season be the year for Vettel and Ferrari?
Stats
World Championships – 4 (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
GP Entries - 219
GP Wins – 52
Podiums – 110
Last Win – 2018 Belgium GP
