Racing driver's pension for the family: Sebastian Vettel (35) justified his surprising exit from Formula 1 in an emotional video, especially with his family. He just wants to spend more time with his "wonderful wife" and his three children in the future. That is not compatible with the job of a Formula 1 driver, as the four-time world champion explained in his statement. There would also be a life for him off the track: "Being a racing driver was never my only identity."
For him, the level of sacrifice for the sport and "being a good father and husband" no longer fit together. He wanted to see his children "grow up, pass on my values to them, listen to them and not have to say goodbye anymore". How important his family really is to him is also shown by the fact that he largely keeps them out of the public eye. Vettel is largely silent about his private life and thereby protects his family.
Vettel himself was born as one of four children in Heppenheim, Hesse, and has maintained a good relationship with his parents and siblings to this day. "I'm very grateful that my parents raised me the way they did," Vettel once said in an RTL interview. His parents also gave him values that would shape him to this day.
He met his current wife while he was still at school. But Hanna Prater and Sebastian Vettel only met years later, according to statements by the racing driver in the official magazine of the world soccer association Fifa - in the soccer stadium of Borussia Dortmund during the 2006 World Cup during the Brazil vs. Japan game. This visit to the Dortmund stadium was "like a key moment" in his life. "Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, a World Cup game with five goals. But there was another unforgettable moment that evening: I met my current girlfriend," Vettel reported in 2017.
13 years later, in 2019, the two married. According to consistent media reports in the smallest circle in southern France, a little later Vettel confirmed the wedding with a ring on his finger and has since spoken of his wife and no longer of his girlfriend. The couple have three children together. The family of five lives in Switzerland.
