Ralf Schumacher has predicted a “disastrous” Spanish Grand Prix for Sebastian Vettel and pondered whether the four-time World Champion may retire.
The 2022 season has not been kind to Vettel. Forced to miss the first two races due to a bout of Covid, he returned to the track in Australia and to a car performing well below where he would have liked.
In his first race back in Melbourne, his comeback was a disaster with two crashes, two fines and an Aston Martin breakdown.
So bad was his performance that after the race, he was told he should retire by former F1 team boss Giancarlo Minardi because “he won’t win any more” races.
The rain at Imola provided him with an opportunity to showcase his talent as he took his Aston Martin car to P8, but he followed that up with another retirement in Miami following a crash with Mick Schumacher.
Mick’s uncle Ralf has now predicted another bad weekend at the Spanish grand Prix for Vettel.
“It will be a disastrous weekend for Sebastian Vettel , I’m sure of it,” Schumacher told Express.de.
“All the weaknesses of the Aston Martin will be exposed in Barcelona. Unless he does a rain dance. But I don’t see that much for him in dry conditions.”
Schumacher even speculated that this season could be the last we see of Vettel in an F1 car as no team will want to take a chance on the 34-year-old.
“I doubt he’ll get the chance,” Schumacher said when asked about the possibility of Vettel leaving Aston Martin for another team on the grid.
“Formula 1 spins so fast, so many guys follow. Sebastian is still on a decent level, but he’s just not the future. If a team reorients itself, it won’t do that with Sebastian.”
Vettel himself has been coy about his future but did say that physically he felt he had years left in the sport.
“Time will tell,” said Vettel when quizzed by reporters about his likelihood of continuing to race in 2023. “At the minute, I think the focus is on now and on the…
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