The mystery of why quadruple world champion Sebastian Vettel peered into rival Mick Schumacher’s Haas cockpit after the French GP has been solved. On-board video emerged of Schumacher, the son of Vettel’s long-time friend and mentor Michael Schumacher, apparently inviting the Aston Martin driver to look at a detail inside his cockpit in Paul Ricard parc ferme. “The seat itself is central and straight, but somehow I’m not sitting straight. Vettel, 33, has made no secret of his willingness to play a mentor role for Schumacher, just as Michael Schumacher did for him at the start of the Aston Martin driver’s career. Schumacher concluded: “He’s a great help to me both on and off the track.

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