Friday November 12th 2021
Vigorously against his departure
Vettel’s boss denies wild rumor
Sebastian Vettel also switched to the Aston Martin Formula 1 racing team because of his friend Otmar Szafnauer. Now the boss could leave the team, is the rumor that is making the rounds. The excitement is great. So big that Szafnauer now feels compelled to react. With a clear denial.
Will Sebastian Vettel lose his friend and boss Otmar Szafnauer to competitor Alpine? The future of the Aston Martin team boss moved the paddock in São Paulo, individual media reported that the American with Romanian roots had already changed. Szafnauer now resolutely opposed these reports. The content was “rumors” and “speculative assumptions,” wrote the 57-year-old on Instagram.
He actually didn’t want to comment on the reports, explained Szafnauer, but “the rumors have now been sensationalized on certain websites and have created a spiral of misinformation, so that I have proactively made the decision to declare that the rumors are purely media- Are speculation and are not based on any facts. “
The content of the media reports was that Szafnauer at Alpine, as Renault’s Formula 1 team has been called since this season, could replace the Italian Davide Brivio, who is said to be about to return to MotoGP. Szafnauer has been nominated for the team boss press conference this Friday (6 p.m. CET) and will again have to take a stand on his future.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Vettel in São Paulo. Not least because of Szafnauer, the four-time world champion accepted the challenge of Aston Martin. He got along with Szafnauer “super,” said the Heppenheimer: “I’ve had a very close relationship with him as long as I can remember. He was also crucial in establishing contact and having the first conversations.”
The team has the ambition to drive for victories and the world championship in the medium term. Before the fourth last race of the season on Sunday on the Interlagos circuit (6 p.m. CET / Sky and in the ntv.de live ticker) However, Aston Martin only occupies seventh place in the constructors’ championship.
During the season, team owner Lawrence Stroll, father of Vettel’s stable colleague Lance Stroll, had recruited top employees from other racing teams. At the end of September, Aston Martin brought the former McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh on board, to whom Szafnauer now reports.