Sebastian Vettel and Formula 1’s Great Career Moves

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Published: January 27, 2016

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Sebastian Vettel is probably feeling pretty good about life as he prepares for the 2016 Formula One season.

When he signed for Ferrari toward the end of 2014, the Scuderia were nowhere. The Italian team had got their new V6 turbo hybrid power unit horribly wrong and had yet again built a disappointing car.

Thanks to Fernando Alonso's efforts, they finished fourth in the constructors' championship; without the Spaniard, they would likely have been down in sixth.

But Vettel's arrival coincided with an upturn in Ferrari's fortunes. He won the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix, only his second race for the team, and stood on the podium 13 times on his way to third in the drivers' standings.

He scored 278 points—just 44 fewer than Nico Rosberg, who had been driving the dominant Mercedes W06. If any team are going to challenge Mercedes in 2016, in will be Ferrari—and if any driver is going to stop one of the Silver Arrows waltzing away with the drivers' championship, it will be Vettel.

How different might his future look had he opted to remain at Red Bull?

Success in F1 has always been about a driver finding himself in the right car at the right time; a single signature on a contract could easily determine whether a great talent ends his career with one world championship or four.

The Ferrari switch could yet turn out to be a terrible mistake, but even if it does, Vettel will still be able to look back on an earlier move that turned out very well for him indeed.

Here, we look back on that career-defining move—and at four other drivers, all of whom raced in the German's lifetime, who also made the right call and reaped the benefits further down the line.

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