Former F1 boss Giancarlo Minardi thinks quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel “should retire”. It’s a stinging comment after one of Vettel’s worst performances ever in Formula 1 last weekend in Melbourne. “I don’t know if he meant with us of not, but I hope so,” Alpine’s new team boss Otmar Szafnauer told AS newspaper. At Aston Martin, however, new boss Mike Krack was quick to protect Vettel after his horror Melbourne weekend. “The fact that a driver like him, a four-time world champion, has so many problems over a weekend has little to do with his driving performance. Former F1 driver Timo Glock, however, joins Minardi in thinking the German driver may take the question of his role at Aston Martin out of the team’s hands.

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