Secret Mechanic: How it feels when your star driver leaves
With Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso leaving the squads they have led for so long, our SECRET MECHANIC reveals how it feels inside a team when your main man departs
So Sebastian Vettel's finally flying the nest, leaving the team that's raised him from small child into fully grown, quadruple world champion, adult.
Further along the pitlane, Fernando Alonso also seems to be splitting up the family, albeit his adoptive one rather than the one that brought him into this Formula 1 world.
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