Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel meets young offenders at HMP Feltham

Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel meets young offenders at HMP Feltham

Sebastian Vettel at HMP Feltham

During a visit to a prison with the Justice Secretary, Aston Martin driver Sebastian Vettel told juvenile offenders that “prejudice” against their criminal convictions should not preclude them from trying to work in Formula One. On Thursday, he paid a visit to HMP Feltham, a prison and young offender centre in West London, and cut the ribbon to set up a new car workshop for the inmates.

The seminar will teach young offenders auto repair and maintenance in needed to aid them find work after they are released. Four-time Formula One world champion Vettel emphasized in that workshop on how the juvenile offenders can achieve their dreams if they worked hard enough and giving them a huge spurt of motivation.

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One of the inmates at the facility asked the German driver if they could secure jobs in Formula One despite having criminal records. To that, Vettel replied, “I don’t see why not. There is obviously prejudice in the world. The world is changing and changing for the better but what I have found generally, when you are good enough, that’s it. There shouldn’t be prejudice stopping anyone.”

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Sebastian Vettel meets Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab

Sebastian Vettel was accompanied by Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, along with Prisons Minister Victoria Atkins, who both toured the new facility. Mr. Raab stated to the PA media organization: “We’re down here at Feltham youth offender institute with Sebastian Vettel and Aston Martin.”

“It’s a great example of everything we want to do to get offenders working, get them the skills in this mechanical workshop because we know that offenders who get the skills and can get into work (are) much less likely to reoffend,” added Mr. Raab.

Another juvenile offender at the facility shared his dream of hoping to work in the railways one day, to which Vettel joined in and shared his admiration for the UK railways. The Aston Martin driver added, “Well there’s a future there, a big future. I don’t know in the UK but in Germany there is a lot of debate over whether it’s necessary to fly very short distances, to be honest it’s probably no. I have been on a train in the UK, it works really well.”

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