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Interview with Otmar Szafnauer, Team Principal for AMR (2021):

The best driver you've worked with? There's so many of 'em and for so many different reasons. Best total total? Sebastian Vettel.

Why? The thing I like most about Seb is his relentless work ethic and he does have that competitiveness, that fire in his belly.

Can you give us an insight into a time when you saw his work ethic at play? Work ethic AND fire in the belly at the same time.

Seb was used to winning. He's won a lot, four-time world champion. And I'm sure the consideration at the other teams he was at was always: right, at a restart, when I'm in the lead, I want to know, on the front straight, the area on the track that has the highest grip level. He got the tire engineer to measure different parts of the front straight to understand where the highest grip level was. Cause at a restart, in case he was leading, that's where he was gonna accelerate. So he had highest grip level relative to the others that weren't at the highest grip level, so he could have an advantage when accelerating. And I remember at the time thinking, "that'd be great if we're in the lead at a restart!" But it's that no stone unturned. The probability of us leading a race at a restart at Aston Martin wasn't high, but he didn't care, 'I need to know, just in case.' That's an example. Love that ♡