After all, this German kid showed explosive talent as early as the junior Formula stage, securing eighteen wins out of twenty races in a BMW Formula series similar to Renault's.
Even more terrifying, he took pole position in all twenty races.
The German drivers of that era could only dream of catching up to Vettel.
The award presenter when he won that year was equally famous—his name was Michael Schumacher.
Someone predicted back then that this was the first German F1 World Champion presenting an award to the second, and how prophetic that turned out to be!
However, in the 2009 F1 winter testing for the new cars, another driver also had an outstanding performance, and that was Sato Takuma, who had withdrawn from the Super Aguri Team and became a test driver for the Red Bull Junior Team.
Sato Takuma, using the Red Bull Junior car, clocked the second fastest lap overall.
