The champion driver wins third Indian GP and fourth straight Formula One world title in a row It was Sebastian Vettel’s day at the Buddh International Circuit here on Sunday.
The Red Bull driver subverted a field that contained four former world champions (Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button) to register his third successive victory in the Indian Grand Prix and make history.
With his 10th victory of the season and 36th of his career, Vettel joined the elite club of Formula One drivers — Michael Schumacher (six world titles), Juan Manuel Fangio (five) and Alain Prost (four) — who have won four or more world titles. He also became the third driver in history, after Fangio and Schumacher (he won five in succession), to win four world titles on the trot.
Never before has Sebastian Vettel displayed such emotion on a Formula One track as he had on Sunday after winning the Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit here and making history.
After taking the chequered flag, half a minute ahead of his countryman Nico Rosberg of Mercedes, the Red Bull driver knelt down in front of his RB9 and curtsied.
He then darted across to the sidewall, climbed over the metal fence and hurled his gloves into the grandstand, packed to the limit, before joining team principal Christian Horner and chief design engineer Adrian Newey to celebrate his momentous victory.
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