Ferrari did pretty much forget seb in 2020 which did an absolute number on his confidence. Some of the team radio where Vettel was also basically being his own strategist was just embarrassing for such a big team

When you had 3 world champion go through the team and still no success it's most likely the team's fault and not the drivers

Ferrari has a pretty long history of kicking out great drivers. I think we need a conspiracy episode on Ferrari forcing Schumacher's hand in his retirement.

In my opinion, when Ross led Ferrari F1, they listened to their drivers. Both Alonso and Vettel did not receive the same respect from their management during their stints.

Lovely edit man, great work!

Their pitstops for Seb were definitely atrocious and sabotage worthy, but I don't think they purposedly sabotaged his car, and it was a knock-on effect of making the car more power dependent then aero dependent. Because Seb's problems started in 2018 when Charles was still at Sauber. Seb looks like a driver who is more comfortable in a downforce heavy car, which is the reason his worst finish in the wdc in an Adrian Newey car is P2 Edit: Forgot 2014 happened, but he still got P5 that year

I would include the F1 stewards in Montreal 2019 and Hungary 2021.. always after Vettel...And Skysports commentators of course 2015 - present..always hammering on his "Mistakes" while Lewis this year has had his share of collosal errors, they rarely say anything negative except for Nico Rosberg...lol.

Yeah, honestly, it was hard to watch Seb last year. Although I never doubted his skill, I was never his biggest fan, but the last few years have seen his attitude humbled slightly, and he's become one of my favourites. As far as conspiracy goes, it's one of those things in motorsports. It wouldn't be surprising if it was true, and it wouldn't be surprising if it wasn't. Big teams and manufacturers have always cheated, bent rules and generally acted in unethical ways, but at the same time, Seb was definitely struggling to deal with the pressure at the time, and his mental state may have affected his performance. I can't say which one is true, or if it a mixture of both, but either way, I'm glad Seb is finding his groove again at AM.

It is no coincidence that the one race where car performance didn’t matter as much, Turkey 2020, Vettel suddenly became an absolute monster. I was still not really as excited to watch Vettel running in P3, reason: because i already knew that Ferrari will 100% botch his pitstop on purpose to let Leclerc ahead… and it did happen… only for Vettel to get back onto the podium which was brilliant 🤩 could have been a P2 tho… 😤😔

Ferrari's problem has not been their drivers. Their problem has always been the management which is very toxic (GSC Ferrari also bodyshamed Seb) Now Ferrari has restructured since 2020 and there are new recruitment so let's hope their situation improves. But we need another Schumacher like person to politically control Ferrari. We need an employee and a driver that can control and get used to the political atmosphere and make it to his/her advantage. SEB tried to do this so many times but that stupid Arrivabene ruined it. If anything Arrivabene did not let Seb's biggest strength (car development) shine.

By 2020 they had decided Leclerc was the future and Vettel was the past. They developed the car around Leclerc's driving style which Vettel struggled to adopt. It didn't help that the team seemingly sabotaged Vettel with poor strategies and pit stops throughout the year. Leclerc shining while Vettel struggled would show the world Ferrari's struggles we're Seb's fault, and publicly justify cutting one of the most successful drivers of all time. The flaw in their plan was Aston Martin's signing of Seb. With his multiple podiums in a midfield team and strong performances at street circuits, he is showing he still has it. Looking forward to seeing how well he does with the 2022 machinery.

Talking about 2017 and 2018. Yes, Seb made mistakes but.... In Mercedes Bottas was always asked to let Ham through. On the other hand it was a common situation when Vettel after a pit stop stucked behind Kimi. The amount of strategic mistakes was enormous.

tbh most people say seb failed in 2018 which is partly true. but people seem to forget that ferrari had numerous blunders in strategy in 17 and 18. even if seb didn't commit those mistakes in the 2nd half of 18, I think Lewis would've still won cuz he was consistent af. also while ferrari and merc were on par with each other in the 1st half (tho i think ferrari edges them). in the 2nd half mercedes outdragged ferrari in development. on top of seb's errors, winning 2018 was really gonna be a struggle. 2017 imo is more painful, seb had minimal errors throughout the year. could even say he was the driver of the season and worthy champion. there was nothing else seb could've done with that 2017 ferrari. it was quick but not as quick as the merc, if not for the reliability failures in malaysia, japan as well as the incidents in singapore, uk, and canada. i think he could've won it by a thread of a needle.

people really think Seb has run our of talent, but that does not seem to be the case, all the right strategies and no driver errors would still not give him the 2017 and 18 titles because Merc was just that good in team development

Pff Ferrari never had it together enough to take a title away from Merc in 2017 and 2018 whatsoever, Ferrari fans love to pretend it was entirely Seb's fault. Smh, one of the most toxic fan bases in all of F1. You can tell how much animosity Ferrari has towards Seb when they "congratulated" him on his second P2 this year, they didn't even write his name on the Twitter post.

2020 Spanish GP when his engineer said "Can you go to the end of the race on this set" while Seb was on SOFTS, it's pretty damn suspect. Idk, maybe wait for Seb's book after he retires to find out? I mean, the "Ferrari masterplan" meme exists because they suck at strategy decisions, and screw up constantly, so I feel like it's just Ferrari being Ferrari and not understanding how to make decisions, but we'll see I guess.

I believe something that a lot of people also don't realise is that In 2017 , Mercedes brought massive updates in the second half of the season and had better straight line speed , seb also had reliability issues at Malaysia and Japan further destroying his title fight and by the end the merc was so much quicker in terms of raw pace that in abu dhabi seb finished 3rd around 30 seconds behind the mercs In 2018 Ferrari made a weird decision not to back seb in qualifying at Monza , giving raikonen pole Also they introduced some updates at Singapore which slowed the car down and till Japan none of their upgrades worked at all They removed all those upgrades at Brazil and finished 50 seconds behind redbull and Mercedes clearly the 3rd best team Ferrari had been unable to keep up with the development pace of the other teams Vettel clearly made mistakes during his time but blaming it entirely on Vettel, claiming he is nothing without a dominant redbull is just bs Also people who claim he had the fastest car in 2018 kindly rewatch the season after Singapore, Ferrari was the 3rd fastest team

2019 for Ferrari was mess altogether, and 2020 is totally painful to watch. This was not like "Ferrari sabotaged Seb", more likely "Ferrari sabotaging their own team" with Charles just being more resistant to emotional trauma.

What really shocked me is a post race interview in the middle of 2021 (don't remember which one, maybe Monza or a couple of races after) where Binotto told "WE CAN FINALLY HAVE TRUST IN BOTH PILOTS"

I wouldn’t say that driver errors were the main factor for the championship loss. Just see how many errors are Hamilton and Verstappen doing this year. Clearly when the car performance is matching both drivers need to overdrive to stay in front and by overdriving they make errors. In 2017/18 Ferrari had cars that were matching Mercedes, but only in some of the 20ish circuits. This meant just one driver had to overdrive.

It's not a conspiracy, it had to happen; It was pretty obvious since Leclerc's arrival to Alfa Romeo that he'd end up being Ferrari's future; The team just put every resource into the young gun instead of the veteran (so you could say he was being sabotaged it that way). great work on the editing :)

2017 is definitely not on driver error... Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, 3 races where Seb lost about 50 points due to things out of his control. Also Silverstone he got a puncture in the end and finished 7th and in Canada he was involved in a racing incident at T1 where Max clipped his front wing (and yet Ferrari didn't realize it straight away that it was broken).

Funny how Carlos is matching Charles this season.

Thank you for this video. I do believe that what Vettel said was true. He didn’t just say it once or twice - he told different journalists over the season that his car was different from Leclerc’s. I’m not sure if anyone remembers, but Vettel was on pace and even slightly faster than Leclerc in the first 3 races last season. Then his car broke down during free practice in Silverstone, and right after that Vettel fell behind by around half a second from Leclerc until Turkey 2020. Binotto stayed behind in Maranello for the Turkey and Bahrain races, and suddenly Vettel outqualified Leclerc again in both races. Ferrari even came out with a statement after saying that Vettel was now more comfortable with the SF1000. Binotto came back for the Sakhir GP, and once again Vettel was running ahead of Leclerc during the free practice sessions. Then the team suddenly made the call to switch him to an older engine for “precautionary measures” before qualifying, and we saw Leclerc getting ahead of Vettel that weekend. The same happened in Abu Dhabi - Vettel never closed up his gap to Leclerc and was outqualified once again in his final race for Ferrari. Interestingly, he told the Dutch media after the qualifying session in Abu Dhabi that he was pleased with his laps and felt that he did a good job. He then backed up his earlier statement by saying that no other team in the paddock has such a huge delta between the drivers. If you put the events that happened altogether, along with what Vettel said across the season, it’s actually quite obvious to see what happened in 2020 with Sebastian and Ferrari.

team management in ferrari is a big reason why things go south very fast, they should be like merc and redbull where the drivers know whats being provided to them and why the other person is doing well.

they should've kept Arrivabene :(

We'll never know. Simply because we, as fans always sympathize with the drivers more than the team. Because the human mind is attracted to a famous single person more than a group of less-known individuals called the team. It's just a very pointless discussion. And please don't start labelling be as a Seb hater or smthn for this.. I love the guy.

nonetheless seb still earned a shit ton of money from his years in ferrari

People need to get it real for once, is not that drivers cracks on the pressure of Ferrari which is real to some extent, but you are capable to do whatever the machinery let you do. True, there is no excuses for Seb around 2019 and 2020, but Ferrari as a team never was even close to run a smooth operation as Mercedes did in those years of domination even with the drama with Rosberg and Hamilton they almost always did the right thing, when Ferrari always dropped the ball in stategy decitions and pitstops even when Seb suggested other ways. Guys, if Alonso and Vettel (6 WDC combined) didn't won the championship is because maybe is something wrong within Ferrari as a Team, subpar machinery, bad work enviroment, bad strategies, too much politics inside, living up to something they weren't at the moment, etc. I'm no personal fan of Seb, but the guy can drive despite his current bad luck, also this year in AM has been not great, but better than I expected given the current situation of lack of testing, bad design concept from AM, etc. The guy did podium 2 times this year in that shitbox that sit currently almost at the end of the midtable. Not signing for the conspiracy, but Ferrari could have won at least 1 or 2 titles with Alonso and/or Vettel if they solve their internal shit

Be that as it may I do have hope seeing Charles and Carlos together that Ferrari and Binotto have learnt their lesson in maintaining a harmonious driver pairing. It’s sad to say we will never get back Vettel’s years in red but the best we can hope for going forward is to see the team rebuild and start winning again. Mark my words Ferrari will have a dark horse in Carlos next year.

Look, Ferrari just wanted to get back to their roots: Loosing while also wasting enormous amounts of money.

Vettel annouces Ferrari move in 2014: *visible happiness* Vettel leaving Ferrari in 2020: *Finally. Inner peace.*

All part of the Great Ferrari Master🅱️lan headed by s🅱️inotto.

2017 was definitely not driver error because in Singapore, Seb did what he had to do which was to come to the left side to cover Max but Kimi got a monstorous start and was immediately side by side with Max so they collided. We know that in an F1 car visibility is very bad so Seb could only see Max and not see Kimi. I can't think of any other instances in which it was Seb's fault in 2017. Although in 2018 he did make many mistakes.

He got so owerpowered, god had to nerf him

It started in Monza 2018 when Ferrari gave Kimi the advantage in qualifying for no reason

I don’t think they gave Vettel a different car, but I do feel that they literally mistreated him on and off the track. This might have translated into Vettels poor performance on track...

On one hand everything that seems logical says they didn't sabotage him. The whole trust issues plus the last two years could possible just been psychologically enough for Seb. On the other hand it's F1 politics and some stuff there is just crazy.

Great video, but the focus in the 2019 season is the wrong approach, in my humble opinion. By the end of 2018, Ferrari confidence in Vettel evaporated, and the Leclerc appointment was the writing in the wall. The real misteries of this failed marriage are in the inner dynamics during the 2017 and mainly, 2018 season. Why Raikkonen got the tow in Monza 2018 qualifying, for example? And many more situations.

Ferrari pressured Schuey to leave, bringing in what was then a very fast Raikkonen for 2007 and saying if you stay, Massa will be out of a job, Kimi will be your teammate and given the ok to fight you on track, no more number 1 status. They first pressured him with a fast Massa, then upped it for 2007, Schuey said ok, under these conditions I'm out, partly also for Massa to keep his Ferrari seat. Ferrari mentality is that no driver is bigger than Ferrari. Fed up with the reports 2010 to end of 2013 that they only scored so highly because of Alonso, doing things that very few drivers could dream of doing in that car, they pressured Alonso by again hiring Kimi, afterall it did work the first time. Well Alonso took on that challenge, stood tall and whooped Raikkonen. Alonso left after being approached by Ron Dennis and Honda, the dream of McLaren Honda dominating again. They signed 4 time champ Vettel, then after their car was no good and he hadn't delivered a title, internally they blamed him and squeezed the pressure. Arrivabene was let go from Ferrari because he let the drivers race in 2018 and never put full support behind Vettel and make Kimi yield. Upper Ferrari believed this cost them the title, also the fact that Vettel was easily more often than not, beating Kimi and potentially cruising. Enter fast hard charging Leclerc. Afraid of being fired like Arrivabene, Binotto favoured Vettel for most of 2019, which was not the right call. Had they favoured Leclerc early on, the title chase may have been more interesting. Anyway, the on track skirmish the two Ferrari boys delivered to each other saw Ferrari finally siding with Leclerc, so they pushed Vettel out by not even offering him contract negotiations. They have simply pressured every main driver since 2005. It's not a matter of if you'll be pressured to leave at Ferrari, it's a matter of when they'll apply the pressure.

The way Ferrari ditched (for lack of a better word) The Michael and Kimi was also pretty sus, so I guess I'm not even surprised they did the same thing with Seb. Someone did a video on this already, can't remember who, though. Aidan? CY? Josh? Tommo? Definitely one of them. Check them out. Not sponsored, they deserve the recognition. Ferrari fan here, btw. We know what we're like.

Some said that they were fighting for 3rd last year and that they needed Seb. But for me that argument is meaningless. Ferrari still earned more Money than Mercees, though they finished 6th in the constructors. Also they got more time for development in the wind tunnel. An lets not forget that giving the driver you wanna spent the next 4+ years with, even more Confidence by destroying a 4time champ is also sth they may have considered. Does this make sense... no or maybe?

Everyone’s jumping on the Ferrari bandwagon this season but I won’t forget their antics over the years and how they treated Seb in his final season. People have short memories

I really like your format for these videos, great source of inspiration btw ;)

Poor Seb :(

I think its all Mattia Binotto who underplayed the engine regulations and didn't manage a friendly relationship between Charles and Seb. Stupidest Team Principal of Ferrari... 🙏

mate i am LIVING for this type of buzzfeed unsolved video edit

These videos are so well done, Im surprised you don’t have a million subscribers yet!

Ferrari turning their attention more to Charles and giving him the big contract makes perfect to sense. He was 22 at the time and had outperformed Vettel when the car and team was favouring Vettel. The idea that Vettel was being sabotaged is a stretch as well. They would not want to throw away constructors standings bonus money for the sake of making a driver look poor and trying to justify the backing of another, when it was already justified. The reason that Seb was poor last year was mainly due to the SF1000’s lack of rear grip and balance. Vettel likes a car with a strong rear and his adaptability is quite poor. Leclerc can adapt to a car better than Vettel can and doesn’t mind a car with poor rear stability as much.

Kimi, Eddie, Fernando, Felipe, Rubens etc. This team is a graveyard for good drivers

Seb has 4 world champions and was close to his 5th. He is no amateur. Also, if you watched the 2020 season, you would've seen how many problems he had with his car. So YES, he was sabotaged by Ferrari.

Another conspiracy theory on why Ferrari sidelined Seb :- Seb exposed how Ferrari were cheating with the fuel sensors to the other teams or the FiA

We were fortunate enough to have been at the 2019 Italian GP, it was an insane atmosphere. The most memorable part for us was the otherwise meek Italian housewife sitting next to us going absolutely nuts, screaming out "Charles, Charles" during each of the last closing laps. That was the last F1 GP we attended .....seems like a lifetime ago. God, how we miss attending races. Fingers crossed for next year.

Ferrari was fooled by Mercedes to sign for hybrid engine introduced. They didn't realize the complexity of a hybrid powertrain . Mercedes has already tested a engine+MGUK+MGUH+Energy Storage combo.

Gotta say the thumbnails lately have been amazingly fitting.

The only thing I don’t understand is despite driver errors of vettel in 2018 and onwards because except for singapore 2017, 2017 he was very good. But from 2018 onwards his pace was always very good. Even when he made mistakes in 2018 he always recovered to big points positions even making up 30s on Verstappen in Monza 2018 after his spin. And in 2019 yes many mistakes again but in racepace never seemed out of place at ferrari. So I rrally wonder why 2020 he was slow. And also how much of the old seb is still with him at Aston now. Like if we were to put true speed seb at aston now where would he bring the car. That’s what I’m wondering

It's easy to blame the driver, but I feel that the entire Ferrari team needs an overhaul like McLaren after Zak Brown took over and made the necessary changes, give it a fresh 'Perspective'.

I feel sorry for Sebastian Vettel😥

Top video mate, brilliant production quality

I don't believe Ferrari deliberately sabotaget Vettel. I do, however, find it likely they were giving Leclerc more attention, working harder to perfect his setup and used Vettel to benefit Leclerc. Ferrari operate with #1 & #2 drivers, and it was very obvious who had which position.

Seb is a legend...he will always be. Ferrari sabatoged themselves.Their choise will backfire

If they treated seb well and kept him until new regs this year which i always wanted to see to see how seb performed we could see another wdc its sad to think that now he has a car uncapable on pure pace for a single point

what a lovely video, greatly edited man!!

Great video - pls mute your discord when recording though - i checked my discord 20 times during this video. KEKW

I have always thought Seb’s defenestration was a convenient distraction from fuel-flowGate.

Remember the team compare telemetry between the drivers, Sebastian would be able to see if he is driving better or as good as Leclerc but still loosing.

Tbh what happened to him happened to a lot of drivers who drive for Ferrari, he cracked under the pressure, he was a 4 time world champion who went to Ferrari and Ferrari expected him to preform, and the pressure got to him, but thank he got into Aston Martin and has a lot of that pressure off his shoulders

Everyone be talking about how harsh Redbull treat their no.2 driver but never talk how Ferrari shit on their no. 1 driver

0:08 red bull seb 🥺

Great video honestly But the theory is silly,just because Vettel was good in Turkey and some few races,while in Aston Martin hes slower than Stroll on average and amazing on 3-4 tracks,Ferrari didnt sabotaged Vettel ,why would they? half of the team loved him till the end and he did so,maybe he didnt like Binotto vise versa but he is struggling himself,hes not the old Sebastian in Aston also,aparr from some races,i think his performance is fading away with the current cars

This is a great video but there is some information missing that you haven't talked about in this video. First things first, Sebastian got his name as the young star from Red Bull. He had close ties to Marko & Horner and had a dominance in 2010-2013. The ferrari car was good in 2010 & 2012 but there were aspects that the design was becoming worse. Then 2014 hit and for both Alonso and Vettel this was a difficult year. For a fresh start, Vettel joined Ferrari. Fans were happy about it and it could definitely get close to a title fight with Mercedes, which came in 2017-2018. But in 2018 there were 2 stories: The first was that Vettel made some large driver errors. First there was the Chinese GP with Max spinning him, who got more angry at him. Then the title fight with Hamilton came close. They were both getting into the lead of the championship. And then hit the German GP and the Italian GP (after a spin due to Hamilton). The championship was decided after that, with even some other driver errors in Japan & USA. The second was the upcoming talent Charles at Sauber/Alfa Romeo in 2018. 2019 was also a promising year with the young talent joining ferrari and the experience of Vettel. But the team wasn't ready for 2 highly talented drivers. There were races that it was 1 sided and races that they were 2 sided. The relationship between Charles & Sebastian also wasn't great from the start. Then Brazil 2019 hit and that was the moment the team was going to decide something in order to change the whole team. What some people not know is that just after the season concluded, Sebastian was told by the team that he was going to be dropped next year (end of 2020 season). They literally said to him that they were going to focus on Charles from 2019 onwards. So that meant that the whole 2020 season (and they also confirmed this in the media before the season even started) was going to be really bad for Sebastian. Then also the car was nerfed (especially the engine) because there was suspicion in the paddock about the 2019 wins after Hungary (where they picked up pace for some reason). This makes races like the 2020 Turkish GP so much more special for Sebastian. Now it's already different because Carlos has a better relationship with Charles, Ferrari and the design is coming back up. Sebastian also is in a better envirement now with Aston Martin. People, mark my words. If the Aston Martin next year has a good design/ performance, I'm sure Sebastian is going to be between Norris/ Ricciardo this year. But that's F1, the design of the car and the great performance of the car (reliability, aerodynamics, good chassis, right balance) can benefit/ nerf the car so much that you get podiums or even wins or get only in Q3 sometimes during the whole season.

Hey man, your plosives are still pretty pronounced on your audio. I would look into minimizing them (whether software or pop filter/etc). Great video though as always. Love your work.

There is no question about it, Ferrari definetly sabotaged Sebs final year, and it’s really not a surprise since Ferrari has been doing this since the 60s.

Interesting In 2018 Marcus Ericsson who drove in the same team with Leclerc was noticing how Leclerc was faster than him in the straights. They had Ferrari engines and I do seriously believe Ferrari gave Leclerc a better engine than Ericsson. After last qualifying of the year in abu dhabi Ericsson gave a peak "It's interesting how Charles has purple sectors in sector 2 which is 2 straights and 1 chicane". Racing has never been fair and if there is one team who takes politics too seriously it would be a certain Italian team.

I honestly think that ferarri screwed him over completely. Sure, I think there might've been a drop off in his performance, but I really don't think it can be as severe as it was. Now that he's at a more positive team, he's doing pretty well, even if he needs to drive that tractor.

As you know, I didn’t enjoy the first episode of this series. But this one is just fantastic. Loved this video. Keep up the great work

They very well need to Justify their decision of not resigning. They would do anything to justify that

It's ep 6 of the conspiracy perspective now also has background smoke with the horror music in the intro

Nice video Siad!!!

Driver error can in part be attributed to ferrari in my view, if you consider his on track abandonment, creating his own strategy or having his strategy botched, what do you think the engineers were behaving like as well. I wouldn't be surprised if car set up was a sissphyian uphill battle for Sebastian.

What if Red Bull announced the departure of Alex Albon earlier in the season(during the time Seb didn't have a new team), was there any chance for him for his return and how that would have reflected to the title battle this year

Being involved with Ferrari for so many years, any unusual activity regardless of the intent will be hard to go unnoticed by Seb. And just like the Boss said, "you can't start a fire without a spark". 😔😉

For me it seems, as if there is a major internal problem at Ferrari setting extreme negative pressure on the drivers. Vettel, Leclerc and Sainz are all great drivers and do/did in a fast Ferrari many more mistakes than the average. From year to year at Ferrari Vettel did more mistakes. 2015 was his best season at Ferrari, 2017 was also very strong. In 2018 and 2019 he did way to many mistakes, but was still quick. I think he tried to force things, that were just not possible. I think, Ferrari needs to treat their drivers better to win a championship. Mercedes showed with Hamilton how to do it.

Next Conspiracy theory why Carlos Sainz is never shown on tv

The Ferrari team have shown to be unreliable towards their drivers. Those F1 drivers that never want to drive for them are wise. Personally I’ve found business arrangements in Italy prove to be untrustworthy.

sebastian never really got to grips since the turbo hybrid era started

Funny part is Ferrari keep pushing Leclerc as the star driver only for him to get outperformed by Sainz i 2021. Given Ferrari looks like they will be far more competitive in 2022, I'm really interested in how the inner-team rivalry plays out.

Charle’s 2019 car, when tested by FIA, showed Ferrari was tricking the fuel flow control system, injecting more fuel than legal during the small time frame the sensor was inactive, and also injecting oil to the combustion. Ferrari wanted Seb gone after 2019, they had an arguably faster driver that was much cheaper, but Seb wasn’t going to walk away from guaranteed $57M x 2020 season. That’s why Ferrari tried to ruin Vettel’s career, detuning his car. Ferrari was so bad in 2020 because their car was built on the premise that their engine was by far the most powerful and they worked to create a lot of aerodynamic downforce. When the engine cheating devices were banned, they were left with an underpowered engine and it was already too late to modify the aerodynamics, that were producing a lot of drag too.

This is quality content

Seb was definitely sabotaged lol and it all relates to the engine. With the settlement they had to rework their engine and they knew they would be uncompetitive. It would be determined that the lower the f1 teams would rank the previous season they would get more wind tunnel testing for their 2021/2022 new era car. Why do you think they left him out on his own? Terrible stops, no strategy, no support, yet leclerc is the golden boy. They threw Seb under the bus even though he had brought them in over half a billion dollars to them with championship points and wins, and the most wins since schumacher. It was disgraceful what they did to him

It’s amazing how an engine & car change, restructured the playing field.

Didn't Ferrari already sign Carlos Sainz before the season even began? So they already knew Seb was on his way out.

The most realistic consipiracy theory of the series

Maybe it was seb who was the whistle-blower on ferrari's engine tricks. He seems like the kind of guy that wouldn't want to win in dodgy machinery.

You don't become a shitty driver all on a sudden and then outqualify Ferrari with AMR in some races this season. Remember that SV said there were fights I wish I hadn't taken. Regarding Ferrari's secret settlement with FIA, it was also clear from a statement by SV that he didn't like the path taken by Ferrari in 2019. My hunch is that these are the fights he took with Ferrari but ultimately realized not worth it. If you still look at Ferrari's performance in 2021, they gained momentum in high downforce circuits like Monaco and Paul Ricard. But that performance did not last long. I had this initial suspect in 2019 that instead of rectifying the flaws in car design philosophy, Ferrari instead took a short cut with PU, which referring back to what SV said, the same path that he did not like. What kind of a team designs a car blistering fast in straight lines only to lose more in slow and medium corners? Ferrari. And this flawed philosophy still hurts them. Since Monaco 2021 they tried to fix tire temperature and degradation issues, which cost them performance rest of the season. Its like an undergrad student's project, he fixes one issue only to open more bugs somewhere else, because the fundamental philosophy was wrong to begin with.

Yes he made a couple mistakes in 2017 and 2018 but the team didn't produce enough upgrades to the car for them to be fighting all year long..

Vettel was a beast in the red bull era, very max like, he joined ferrari to emulate his icon but it seemed in the time between his negotiations and actual transfer , the people he was close with (montezemolo etc.) Were out of the team and so he was left with a version of a team he wasn't familiar with which ultimately bit him in the later years when they basically wrote him off. Remember, ferrari only won in the 2000s because of schumi, brawn and todt. They were resilient as a team and if even one of them was absent, I am sure even Michael would've suffered the same fate. Ferrari has always been a glorified mediocre team. Look at the history books, it's about time we stop putting them on a pedestal. Eventually , all the disappointment will get to your mentality, even a good driver can go to shit when they race for the Italian team. Clearly they're drivers, not politicians.

You have to be honest.. Sebastian started to sabotage himself before everyone else, including signing with Ferrari after the information pointed out it was a very very very bad idea. But after that... there are things to analyze and discuss too

Nice video mate 👍

I personally think it's as simple as the Ferrari was a difficult car to drive at peak level, and charles managed to adapt better than Vettel did for this specific car. The team themselves would of been aware of this from pre-season. There will never be both drivers on teams getting equal opportunity and assistance from the team, they will always prioritise the driver that data is showing is getting the most out of the cars.