WATCH: When a three-way crash with Raikkonen and Verstappen ended Sebastian Vettel’s title hopes at Singapore GP

WATCH: When a three-way crash with Raikkonen and Verstappen ended Sebastian Vettel’s title hopes at Singapore GP

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With the Singapore Grand Prix coming up in a few weeks’ time, anticipation has reached sky-high levels as all the F1 fans are waiting with baited breath to find out the fate of this year’s F1 Championship. At the end of this 2022 season, we will be bidding Sebastian Vettel goodbye as the German announced his retirement from the tracks after the Abu Dhabi GP. And this takes us back to Singapore GP 2017, when Vettel in his red Ferrari had a terrible crash at the very start of that year’s race and ended up being out of the run even after qualifying in the pole position.

Alongwith Seb, the two other racers who were involved in the accident were the current Championship leader Max Verstappen and former Alfa Romeo racer Kimi Raikkonen. Ferrari has not seen the glory of winning the Championship ever since the Finn brought the trophy to Maranello in 2007, and a decade later, Vettel had a huge chance of going for it in 2017. But as luck would have it, his hopes of leading the standings disintegrated as he got into a collision right after the GP took off.

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Now, almost 5 years from that fateful day, Sebastian Vettel will return to the Singapore GP one last time with Aston Martin, as he will exit F1 a few months later. Thus, all his fans will be anticipating a brilliant performance from him as a great parting gesture.

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Sebastian Vettel’s crash cost him his Singapore GP 2017 title

Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel

After posing as a force to reckon with, during his undefeatable years with Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel surprisingly found not a single World Championship victory while driving for Ferrari. And in 2017, he had a chance to lift that curse, almost a decade since Ferrari had last won a Drivers’ Championship, by scoring the highest points to take the lead of the grid in the Singapore GP. On the Saturday preceding the race, the German even got a pole position during the Qualifying.

But unfortunately for him, he got into a crash with Max Verstappen’s Red Bull and his teammate Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari. The race was a chance for Vettel to get back to leading the WDC Standings, after he was usurped from the top by title rival Lewis Hamilton. But when the race got off to a standing-start, owing to the brief spell of rain a few hours before the Grand Prix began, Kimi Raikkonen hit the left side of Verstappen’s Red Bull.

Then, Verstappen came in contact with Vettel, who had not gotten as good a race start as the Dutchman and his own teammate. The three-way contact caused all of them to get a DNF in the race as they had to retire their cars because of irreparable damage.

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