GP report: Vettel does it in style
Sebastian Vettel claimed a fourth title in resounding fashion in India, with Red Bull judging to perfection its strategy in a race influenced by heavy tyre graining. MARK HUGHES reviews the Indian Grand Prix
Sebastian Vettel stylishly clinched his fourth straight world championship with a devastating victory won through sheer, pummelling, relentless pace, delivered within a strategy made tricky by the extreme wear rate of the softer option tyre around the Buddh International Circuit.
Yet this 26-year-old phenomenon made it look child's play.
Two of the other three men to have won four titles - Fangio and Prost - had not yet won a grand prix when they were Vettel's age. Fangio, in fact, had yet to even make his debut. Are even Michael Schumacher's records safe from Vettel's grasp?
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