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  Now F1 has back to Europe! Four flyaway races had gone through the disturbance start of the season, the guys are ready to move across Europe, one place after another, weekend to weekend, from the Spanish Grand Prix. Here is the home of the sport, so this is real start of the season! Facing at this "Second start" of the championship, does he feel any pressure?

  "No, not at all. I have only one seat in the car, so fortunately I can't have any passengers! Obviously there is always pressure to come back to Europe and start the season here. I think it mainly depends on how was your last races. If you would have been nowhere and scored zero points, then I think my table would be quite empty!"

  The first day's practice had suffered radio communication problem, but it wasn't so serious. "I think I had some Spanish taxi drivers to talking to me!" he laughs. "Other than that it was normal Friday business. We did a lot of laps and tested some new parts, which I think we got an answer on, but for sure we will compare the data in comparison to our competitors." Yes, he is enough matured to cope with the things like these.

  Innocence and intelligence — that is what he is even though he's not aware of that ability. Red Bull's technical chief Adrian Newey who has created numbers of prestigious cars in Williams or McLaren, speaks of him in the highest terms.

  "With Sebastian you have to pinch yourself to remember how young he is, to be honest. In the way he presents himself, in the way he drives the car, and tells you about his car and the debriefs and so forth, he has a much older set of shoulders on him that is apparent. He is a very intelligent young lad, and shows huge potential. He is also a very nice guy. There is no edge to him that you sometimes find with such a top driver."

  Tyres are the only point tell the car's performance to the track, so tyre sometimes tell us the truth more than anything else. Bridgestone's experienced engineer Hirohide Hamashima says he has "something" like Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna.

  "He's using the peak of tyres' grip to the limit without any sliding. It means he has very high ability to feel the grip. Normal people can't imagine how to understand such a sensitive and narrow peak curve. We can say that his whole body is sensor as Michael described sometimes otherwise you never catch it. Looking back at the drivers I had worked together, Michael had almost same ability, and Ayrton Senna too."

  As the great champions like Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, the name of Sebastian Vettel will be appear on the next page of the history soon.