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Merhi triggers SUPER GT penalty after Fuji infractions

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Ex-Formula 1 racer Roberto Merhi will be forced to miss an hour of practice time for the next SUPER GT round at Suzuka after earning two penalties last time out at Fuji Speedway.
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Merhi picked up a pair of drive-through penalties in his third SUPER GT outing of the year at Fuji sharing the Team LeMans Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo2 with regular teammate Yoshiaki Katayama.
The first came for repeated abuse of track limits, even after he was shown the black-and-white warning flag, while the second was earned for failing to slow down to the required 80km/h in time during a full-course yellow period.
While Merhi served those penalties in the race itself, restricting he and Katayama to 16th place at the finish, they have also combined to give the Spanish driver five penalty points.
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This automatically triggers the mildest punishment on SUPER GT's four-stage 'moral hazard prevention system', which is to miss the second part of Saturday morning's official practice session at Suzuka.
Stream every qualifying session and race of the 2022 SUPER GT season only on <a href="https://motorsport.tv/program/super-gt-live-racing/1616">Motorsport.tv</a>.
One more penalty point would result in a four-place grid drop, the same punishment Mugen Honda driver Toshiki Oyu was forced to serve in the previous race, with an eight-place grid drop following at eight points and a one-race ban at 10 points.
Drivers automatically get two points scrubbed from their record following two incident-free race weekends.
Hoppy Supra returns, Drago Corse still absent The entry list for the fifth round of the SUPER GT season at Suzuka was revealed on Monday, revealing that only one of the two absent GT300 teams last time out at Fuji will be back in action.
Tsuchiya Engineering, whose Toyota GR Supra was damaged in a testing crash at Suzuka last month, will return to the grid as scheduled with its regular drivers Takamitsu Matsui and Seika Nonaka.
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However, Drago Corse will be on the sidelines for a second race in a row as question marks grow over whether the team can find the resources to return to competition following its split from title sponsor Busou.
Elsewhere on the entry list, Kei Cozzolino will be partnered by Naoki Yokomizo in the Pacific CarGuy Racing Ferrari with regular co-driver Takeshi Kimura away on European Le Mans Series duty at Barcelona.
Tsubasa Kondo returns at BMW Team Studie after sitting out the last race at Fuji due to COVID-19, while Shade Racing has added a third driver to its line-up in the form of Shinnosuke Yamada, who also races for the team in Super Taikyu.

Roberto Merhi

Fuji Speedway

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By: Jamie Klein

Lucas di Grassi denied Jake Dennis a London E-Prix double with a tactical masterclass, as Stoffel Vandoorne put one hand on the Formula E trophy heading into the Seoul finale.
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An excellent decision to chain his first and second attack modes gave di Grassi the advantage over Jake Dennis, getting onto the back of the British driver with a clear offset in strategies.
Di Grassi then simply had to wait until everyone's attack modes had been consumed to cycle to the front, then dropping the hammer to ensure Dennis was unable to catch him.
Dennis had been able to hold the lead into the first corner, and looked to have a manageable advantage over di Grassi in the opening 10 laps of the race.
With a different attack mode activation plan to race one, the drivers this time had three lots of attack mode - each four minutes in length - offering a different strategic variable.
Di Grassi took his first hit on lap 10, with Dennis responding on the following lap. But once his first four minutes had elapsed, di Grassi then took the undercut with his second attack mode on lap 13, which put Dennis at the disadvantage with the attack mode offset as the Brazilian caught up to the back of Dennis - who needed to take the off-line power boost activation two more times.
Dennis picked up his second activation and closed di Grassi - who had picked up the lead - down, with the Venturi driver returning the favour three laps later once Dennis' activation had elapsed.
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Although Dennis had track position, he would have to cede it once more. Managing to defend the lead until di Grassi's final attack mode activation had run out, Dennis was told to spend some energy in building a gap to collect attack mode and potentially grab the lead on his return to the racing line.
Dennis got the lead up to 0.9s, but that proved to be the zenith of his gap out front - and di Grassi closed up again, forcing Dennis to take his last attack mode with a 0.4s lead.
That allowed di Grassi to claim the lead back once Dennis took the wider route at Turn 16 to pick up his final 250kW power mode, but the Andretti driver simply could not kick on and close up - instead, di Grassi used the opportunity to open the gap to more than a second despite running on lower power.
Once Dennis' attack mode had elapsed, di Grassi could open the lead up even further, and was left relatively unbothered over the remainder of the race as Dennis had to contend with a hard-charging Nyck de Vries at the close of the race.
De Vries had battled with Antonio Giovinazzi and Antonio Felix da Costa in the opening stages, but the former was handed a drivethrough penalty for power overuse, while da Costa dropped behind de Vries among the mid-race attack modes.
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Stoffel Vandoorne charged from 13th on the grid to fourth and with his main title rivals faltering in the second race, it gave him a 36-point lead in the standings as Mitch Evans' Jaguar came to a crawl in the final few laps while the Kiwi was running fourth.
Neither Edoardo Mortara in 12th nor Jean-Eric Vergne, who retired, could score; although the latter is not mathematically out of the title hunt as he is 57 points adrift with a maximum of 58 on offer from the last two races.
Da Costa ended the race in fifth, ahead of Sebastien Buemi who made it back to back points for Nissan e.dams and Robin Frijns in seventh.
Sam Bird rescued eighth for Jaguar, with Sergio Sette Camara securing Dragon Penske's first points of the year with ninth. Pascal Wehrlein completed the top 10, chased to the line by Mortara - but the Venturi driver was then hit with a penalty for contact with Maximilian Gunther.
The safety car was produced on the third lap to clear an array of debris, with Dan Ticktum pulling off the circuit at Turn 20 with a broken front-right suspension - as Vergne limped back to the pit with damage, his day done and his championship chances all but over.
Oliver Rowland was the earliest retirement from the race, after dealing with damage from an airborne moment caused by Oliver Askew squeezing him into the wall on the exit of Turn 5.
Askew copped a drivethrough penalty for that indiscretion, and also collected a five-second penalty for later contact with Gunther.

2022 London E-Prix/2

Lucas di Grassi

Jake Dennis

Stoffel Vandoorne

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By Jake Boxall-Legge

Red Bull&rsquo;s new Formula 1 engine project has pulled off another major coup in signing highly-respected engineer Phil Prew from Mercedes, Motorsport.com can reveal.
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The Milton Keynes-based team has been ramping up its Powertrains division ahead of a planned partnership with Porsche for F1&rsquo;s new rules era from 2026.
As part of its ambitious efforts, it has been on a recruitment drive to hire the best staff possible and has already lured a number of key signings from rival Mercedes over the past 12 months.
This included its new technical director Ben Hodgkinson, who had been head of mechanical engineering at Mercedes&rsquo; High Performance Powertrains since 2017 after a 20-year spell with the German car manufacturer.
Now it has emerged that F1 stalwart Prew, who was most recently chief engineer at Mercedes&rsquo; engine division, has agreed to also join Red Bull to take a senior role within its powertrains project.
No official announcement has been made about a start date yet though. As he was such a senior figure at Mercedes, it is likely that he will have to take a period of gardening leave before being able to begin his employment at Milton Keynes.
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Prew has had a lengthy career in F1, having previously spent 25 years at McLaren until he joined Mercedes powertrains in January 2016.
He originally joined McLaren as a vehicle dynamics engineer in 1997, and then rose through to the ranks to become race engineer, principal race engineer and then chief engineer from the start of 2013.
Prew most famously worked with Lewis Hamilton as his race engineer for the Briton's first world championship title in 2008, having previously fulfilled that role for David Coulthard and Juan Pablo Montoya.
Prew&rsquo;s switch to Red Bull comes on the back of the operation&rsquo;s powertrains factory recently being finished as it ramps up its future efforts.
Speaking at the Hungarian Grand Prix, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner had hinted at fresh signings for its engine project.
&ldquo;Powertrains is going from strength to strength,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We've taken on further appointments and recruits, which will be announced shortly and that&rsquo;s exciting for the project.
&ldquo;I think that things are really taking shape. You can see in Milton Keynes we've gone from being a few units on an industrial estate to being a technology campus. The investment by the group has been significant.&rdquo;
He added: &ldquo;The first engine is due to fire up shortly. It's been a steep learning curve, but we've recruited some phenomenal talent.&rdquo;
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Red Bull Racing

Mercedes

by Jonathan Noble

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz rued missing out on pole for Formula 1's Hungarian Grand Prix after calling his lap to second on the grid "nothing special".
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Sainz led the way after the first Q3 runs on the Hungaroring and as his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc failed to beat his time, Sainz then improved again to seemingly cement a certain pole position.
But Sainz's bid for a second career pole was thwarted in the dying seconds of the top 10 shootout by Mercedes' George Russell, who took a shock maiden pole.
Having lost out on pole by only 0.044s, Sainz said he was disappointed to be beaten by Russell as he branded his own final run as "nothing special".
"Probably that Q3 run two lap was nothing special. It was not good enough for pole so I'm also a bit disappointed because with the perfect lap, for sure I would have been up there," Sainz said.
"But I guess George did a very good lap today and he deserves that one, so congrats."
Sainz, who had been lagging behind Leclerc earlier this season as he tried to adjust the Ferrari more to his liking, said his qualifying performance did point to a better understanding in the car.
"I felt like today I had everything more or less under control through the whole qualifying," he explained.
"We keep making steps in the right direction, which keep getting me more comfortable and more together with the car and today there were some good laps."
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After struggling through Friday practice Russell said he was left in the dark about Mercedes' race pace, saying he would be "shocked" if Mercedes could keep up its level of performance from qualifying during Sunday's grand prix.
With Saturday's FP3 rained out, which washed away the track's rubber, Sainz said Ferrari was in the same boat and he felt the changing track conditions on Saturday afternoon affected Ferrari's pace advantage on its rivals.
"Clearly the track conditions as they've switched, particularly on soft tyres, maybe they haven't gone in our direction because yesterday we seemed to have a pace advantage that we certainly didn't have today," Sainz explained.
"Even in Q1 and Q2 we didn't have margin that we had in other races this year and we had to make sure we put our set of new tyres [on] and do it at the right time, because the midfield was certainly closer to us than where they were yesterday.
"We are certainly not particularly happy about today, the way the car and everything was handling, but with a perfect lap I could have put it up there so that's why I'm disappointed."
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Carlos Sainz

2022 Hungarian Grand Prix

By Filip Cleeren

Liam Lawson will make his Formula 1 FP1 debut at the Belgian Grand Prix for AlphaTauri, while Alpine&rsquo;s Oscar Piastri will drive for the team in practice at Spa or Monza.
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In Lawson's case, he will face the challenge of switching between F1 and his regular F2 campaign on Friday at Spa-Francorchamps.
All teams have to run a rookie in two FP1 sessions this season, with both race drivers giving up their seat on one occasion each.
The only exception is Alfa Romeo, with the FIA accepting that Zhou Guanyu's first outing in Bahrain counted as a rookie appearance.
Many of the 19 other FP1 rookie slots have yet to be deployed.
Teams face various compromises as they try to schedule rookie runs, with tracks such as Singapore and Suzuka &ndash; both being used for the first time since 2019 &ndash; requiring maximum track mileage for the race drivers.
There is some risk inherent in choosing Belgium, as the high chance of rain could either make like difficult for the rookie if FP1 is wet, or for the race driver if he misses valuable dry running and later sessions are wet.
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Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur has said he doesn't want to run Theo Pourchaire on weekends selected for FP2 Pirelli tyre testing, as that would complicate matters for the team. Vasseur also noted that he doesn't want Pourchaire to double up in F2 and F1 on the same weekend, preferring him to focus on one or the other.
Despite those complications, AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost said his team had made a clear decision, noting: "Currently we plan to run Liam Lawson in FP1 in Spa."
Alpine's plans remain fluid, although Piastri, who has done a lot of private testing in the team's 2021 car, won't have to wait long.
"It's not a huge issue to find a weekend," said Alpine sporting director Alan Permane. "There are plenty, and I think we'll see Oscar in our car at either Spa or Monza for the first time."
Ferrari has yet to schedule its sessions for Robert Shwartzman. However the former F2 driver &ndash; who is now entered under Israeli colours and not Russian &ndash; recently conducted some running in a 2021 car by way of preparation.
"We haven't exactly decided on which event it's going to be," said Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies.
"You will not pick races like Singapore, races where the race drivers more running. I don't think we have an issue in doing it during one of the weekends where we have Pirelli testing."
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Oscar Piastri

Liam Lawson

By Adam Cooper

Supercars wildcard Zak Best took a sensational pole position in his plain black Mustang at The Bend Motorsport Park.
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The 20-year-old, making just his second main game start as a wildcard for Tickford Racing, stunned the field by snaring pole for today's first race.
Best was consistent across all segments of qualifying, comfortably progressing through Q1 and Q2.
However he turned up the heat in the final segment, a 1m47.816s on his first run proving to be an unbeatable benchmark.
Runaway series leader Shane van Gisbergen did his best to run down Best's time right at the flag, but fell 0.02s short of denying Best a dream pole.
"I wasn't expecting this," said a shellshocked Best."I don't really know what to say.
"We did the best we could. I had a big go into Turn 1, we were losing a bit to Cam. I finally pieced it all together and it was good enough for pole. I didn't think I'd be on pole this afternoon.
"Racing is a completely different thing. I've got to get off the line then try and stay out of trouble, and it'll sort itself out."
Van Gisbergen will start on the outside of the front row, his late lap bumping Best's Tickford teammate Cam Waters to the inside of the second row.
Chaz Mostert grabbed fourth with his final lap, while DJR pair Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison were only good enough for fifth and sixth.
Broc Feeney qualified seventh ahead of David Reynolds while Nick Percat returned to some qualifying form with the ninth fastest time ahead of Will Brown.
Thomas Randle was left on the Q3 bubble, the Tickford driver only able to climb to 11th on his final run in Q2.
Andre Heimgartner, meanwhile, was a surprise omission from the final segment of qualifying.
The Kiwi, who took his first Supercars race win at The Bend last year, could manage just 14th on the grid after running out of time for a final run due to a set-up change.
"If we ran the last set of tyres we would have been on," said Heimgartner. "But we ran out of time to go out again, so obviously everyone got one more run than us.
"It's pretty disappointing, but I think our car actually isn't too bad."
The first race of the weekend kicks off at 4:15pm local time.

The Bend Motorsport Park

Zakkary Best

By Andrew van Leeuwen

Ferrari&rsquo;s Charles Leclerc was fastest during Hungarian Grand Prix practice on Friday, the 13th round of the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship, ahead of McLaren&rsquo;s Lando Norris.
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Carlos Sainz was fastest in FP1 before his Ferrari teammate Leclerc topped FP2, the second of the pair of one-hour sessions.
Hungarian Grand Prix FP1 results: Sainz fastest from Verstappen
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What happened in Hungarian GP Free Practice 1? Verstappen set the early pace at 1m21.235s on soft tyres, before Sainz produced 1m20.696s and then Leclerc lapped in 1m20.225s.
Verstappen got within 0.018s of that, and then Sainz beat it with 1m20.184s, before Leclerc dipped under the 1m20s barrier with 1m19.863s. Again, Verstappen got close &ndash; lapping within 0.009s.
Sainz lowered the bar to 1m19.671s and then Leclerc unleashed a lap of 1m19.426s.
On the final runs with 15 minutes to go, Verstappen hit the top with 1m18.880s but was quickly eclipsed by Sainz on 1m18.750s, who was on a second push lap on his final set of tyres. The fastest time of the session was 0.13s faster than the world championship leader.
Leclerc was third, 0.3s off the pace, ahead of Lando Norris (McLaren) and George Russell (Mercedes).
Hungarian Grand Prix FP2 results: Leclerc fastest from Norris
<a href="https://motorsportstats.com/results/formula-one/2022/hungarian-grand-prix/classification/2nd-free-practice">FP2 RESULT</a>
What happened in Hungarian GP Free Practice 2? The battle for the fastest time between Ferrari and Red Bull resumed right from the start, with Sainz, Verstappen and Leclerc all trading the quickest time on medium tyres.
Leclerc worked down to 1m18.911s, almost half a second clear of Sainz and 0.743s quicker than Verstappen.
Teams switched to the faster soft-compound rubber just before the halfway point, with Norris initially setting the pace with an impressive 1m18.662s.
Leclerc took P1 away with 1m18.445s, with Sainz only able to take third, 0.231s off the pace. Verstappen was slightly slower, producing 1m18.728s for fourth, ahead of the second McLaren of Daniel Ricciardo.
Leclerc reported a torque issue during his long run, and he pitted for the team to investigate. His resumption was further impacted when he clipped his jack as he pulled out of the garage.
On a mainly incident-free day, Alex Albon spun his Williams at Turn 1 and was able to rejoin.
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Charles Leclerc

Ferrari

By Charles Bradley

Former Formula 1 driver Jos Verstappen is set to make his World Rally Championship debut in Belgium later this month.
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The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen is set to tackle the tarmac Ypres Rally, which will host the ninth round of the WRC from18-21 August.
Verstappen&rsquo;s inclusion on the rally&rsquo;s entry list arrives less than six months since he made his rally debut in the Belgian Rally Championship in February.
Verstappen, who clocked up 106 starts during his F1 career with Benetton, Simtek, Footwork, Tyrrell, Stewart, Arrows and Minardi, has been a regular in Belgian rally scene this season driving a Citro&euml;n C3 Rally2, which he will again pilot at Ypres. He will be partnered by compatriot Harm van Koppen.
The 50-year-old&rsquo;s best result to date was a second place finish at the Station Le Seau Monteburg Rally in May.
Verstappen finished eighth on debut at Rally van Haspengouw in February, retired from the South Belgian Rally in March and crashed out of Rally van Wervik in June.
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Ypres Rally is likely to represent Verstappen&rsquo;s biggest challenge of his fledgling rally career, with the Dutchman set to compete in a field of 37 Rally2 machines, which make up part of an 88 car entry for the event.
Verstappen is however familiar with the the challenging asphalt roads following appearances on similar stages so far this season.
The Ypres Rally entry list is headed by 10 Rally1 entries with M-Sport electing to reduce its contingent to three Ford Pumas for regulars Craig Breen, Gus Greensmith and Adrien Fourmaux.
Pierre-Louis Loubet, who has been competing for M-Sport at the majority of events this year, will sit out this round as the rally is not part of his seven-round roster.
Oliver Solberg will continue to pilot the third Hyundai i20 entry before handing over the car to Dani Sordo for the Acropolis Rally in Greece in September.
Toyota will once again field an unchanged line-up with Esapekka Lappi retaining the seat of the third GR Years he has been sharing with eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier.
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Jos Verstappen

2022 Ypres Rally Belgium

By Tom Howard

Charles Leclerc has revealed retiring Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel sent him a text to console him after his crash in the French Grand Prix.
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On Thursday ahead of this weekend's Hungarian GP, Vettel announced on his newly-launched Instagram account that he would be retiring from F1 at the end of the 2022 season.
The news has led to widespread tributes from his peers on the grid and the wider motorsport world, with former Ferrari teammate Leclerc also speaking of his admiration for Vettel at the Hungaroring.
Leclerc crashed out of the lead in last week's French GP and is now 63 points behind chief title rival Max Verstappen.
Speaking on Thursday, Leclerc revealed Vettel texted him following the French GP to offer support, and the Monegasque spoke of his fond memories of his former Ferrari teammate.
"There are loads of moments, but it's definitely not an on-track moment," Leclerc replied when asked by Motorsport.com what is favourite memories of Vettel are from their time as Ferrari stablemates.
"It's all the moments at the factory and the way also how our relationship evolved throughout the years because I arrived the first year and I was super impressed.
"And I think I was probably weird to him because I was just shy and didn't know what to say when I was with him.
"But he's a friend and he always texts me, like he did after Sunday, and always tries to make me feel better when I'm having a tough time. So, it's nice to see how much I've grown since I first met him."
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Leclerc owned to up to his Paul Ricard crash being his mistake at the time, and insists now he is not dwelling on it as doing so will not help him.
"Well, I need to," he added when asked how he moved on from the crash. "There's nothing that will help me [by] dwelling on my mistake or staying in the past on that mistake.
"I did that mistake, it cost me lots of points, I am aware of it. And that's it.
"Now I just need to move on, focus 100% on this weekend, try to do the best possible, try to win this race and then I'm sure it will go well."
Leclerc also moved to dismiss any suggestions his crash was caused by external factors, with the Ferrari driver noting: "I really hate to say 'oh, it's the wind, or a bird' [that caused a crash].
"I'm driving the car ultimately, and I did a mistake. So, yes, the conditions change a little bit every lap &ndash; and that's for everyone.
"It's obviously trickier when you are on the limit, but I think everyone is on the limit."
Leclerc's initial radio message when he crashed suggested he had a problem with his throttle pedal, though it was later cleared up by the team that he was simply struggling to engage reverse gear to get out of the barrier.
Commenting on the theories that emerged regarding his crash, Leclerc said: "I understood that there was doubts, but it's just that the torque is limited in first gear.
"So, I was speaking about this, not about anything before. So, there was nothing on the car."
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Sebastian Vettel

2022 French Grand Prix

By: Lewis Duncan Co-author: Adam Cooper

Sebastian Vettel says his Formula 1 retirement was prompted by feeling he could no longer give it the commitment needed alongside his desire to spend more time with his family.
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The four-time world champion announced on Thursday that he would be leaving grand prix racing at the end of the year.
In a lengthy video that he posted on Instagram talking about his decision, Vettel said that the value he put on spending more time with his children had finally outweighed his passion for success in F1.
&ldquo;Next to racing I have grown a family and I love being around them,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I have grown other interests outside of F1.
&ldquo;My passion for racing and F1 comes with lots of time spent away from them, and takes a lot of energy.
&ldquo;Committing to my passion the way I did, and the way I thought was right, does no longer go side-by-side with my wish to be a great father and husband.
&ldquo;The energy it takes to become one with the car and the team to chase perfection takes focus and commitment.
&ldquo;My goals have shifted from winning races and fighting for championships to seeing my children grow, passing on my values: helping them up when they fall, listening to them when they need me, not having to say goodbye and most importantly being able to learn from them and let them inspire me.
&ldquo;Children are our future. Further I feel there is so much to explore and learn about life, and about myself. Speaking of the future, I feel we live in very decisive times and how we all shape these next years will determines our lives.&rdquo;
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Vettel's recent years in F1 have seen him become much more engaged in social and environmental matters, and he again suggested he would likely become even more active on this front.
"My passion comes with certain aspects that I&rsquo;ve learned to dislike,&rdquo; added the Aston Martin driver. &ldquo;They might be solved in the future but the will to apply that change has to grow much, much stronger, and has to be leading into action today.
&ldquo;Talk is not enough and we cannot afford to wait. There is no alternative. The race is under way.&rdquo;
Vettel also said that he felt grand prix racing was in good hands with a new generation of racing stars, and he looked now to the future rather than reflecting on his past successes.
&ldquo;My best race? Still to come. I believe in moving forwards and moving on. Time is a one -way street, and I want to go with the times. Looking back is only going to slow you down,&rdquo; he explained.
&ldquo;I look forward to race down unknown tracks and I will be finding new challenges.
&ldquo;The marks I left on track will stay until time, and rain will wash them away. New ones will be put down. Tomorrow belongs to those shaping today.
&ldquo;The next corner is in good hands as the new generation has already turned in.
&ldquo;I believe there is still a race to win. Farewell, and thanks for letting me share the track with you. I loved every bit of it.&rdquo;
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