Sebastian Vettel recently retired from F1 after a phenomenal career of 4 world titles , 53 race wins and 122 podiums .
In a recent F1 podcast , Vettel was asked who his greatest foe was , for which he said ,”I think Kimi [Raikkonen] is actually the biggest natural talent I’ve come across, ever – just in terms of raw speed, I think.”
“And it shows in the car, obviously, but it shows also in any other form of car. I think switching – if there was a discipline of switching cars every day – after 10 days he would be lapping everybody else, just because he’s just a natural, it doesn’t take time to adapt to the car, to what the car requires.
“If you give him a steering wheel, he knows what to do with it. Sometimes you feel it’s unfair, you need to get used to it first and get an idea of the track or the conditions, but for him it’s just… boom.”
He then added ,”I think with him, I probably had the best relationship out of all the team mates I had, because he was just so straightforward,” recalled Vettel. “There was never an argument. If we crashed into each other we talked about it, fixed what happened, maybe laughed about it…
“But there was never a question that anything could sort of shake up or destabilise the, I don’t want to say bond, but relationship that we had. He’s been probably also the one when I came in, I remember, he was so respectful from the day I walked in, looking into my eyes. With other drivers I felt, ‘okay I’m shaking hands, I’m saying hello, but actually the guy’s not present, he’s not here’. With people, I think Kimi has been exceptional.”
Kimi Raikkonen retired from F1 last season (2021 ) and now he is the Team Principal of KRT MXGP .
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