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Sebastian Vettel won the floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by a massive margin on Sunday to chalk up his seventh successive victory and equal the longest winning streak in Formula One’s modern era.
Infiniti Red Bull’s four times world champion was in a league of his own, 40 seconds clear at his second pit stop and then taking the chequered flag half a minute ahead of second-placed Australian team mate Mark Webber.
“The car was absolutely brilliant,” he said after the race which started in daylight and ended in darkness. “Not much more to say. I was flying at some stages. At least it felt like it.”
The 26-year-old German has now won 11 races this season, 37 in his career, and his seventh success in a row equalled the single-season tally racked up by fellow German Michael Schumacher in 2004.
The all-time record of nine was set by Italian Alberto Ascari, although that was over two seasons in 1952-53, and nobody would bet against Vettel matching that feat before the year is out with races in Austin, Texas and Brazil to come.
To celebrate, Vettel pulled over on his slowing down lap and performed more of the smoking ‘donuts’ that landed him in trouble last weekend in India where he captured his fourth successive championship.
