Praise continues for Vettel’s Grand Prix winning streak
LONDON — Sebastian Vettel’s run of seven Grand Prix wins in a row may be even more impressive than Michael Schumacher’s similar streak in 2004, according to his Red Bull team boss, Christian Horner.Vettel, the sport’s youngest quadruple world champion at 26 years old, was utterly dominant in Abu Dhabi on Sunday as he chalked up his seventh successive victory with almost embarrassing ease. No driver in the modern era has won more than seven in a row, and Schumacher and Vettel are the only ones to have done so in a single season.Italian Alberto Ascari racked up nine consecutive victories, but that was over the course of the 1952 and 1953 seasons — when the calendar admittedly had a fraction of the number of races seen today."The times are very different," Horner said when asked to compare Vettel’s achievement with Schumacher’s success at Ferrari. "We’re all on a standard tyre now, there’s no testing, we’re limited on the amount of engines we can have, the amount of wind tunnel time an...
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