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This weekend is the Italian Grand Prix and it is nearly 10 years since Sebastian Vettel tasted victory in Formula One for the very first time.
September 14, 2008 - Vettel became the youngest race winner in F1 history at the age of 21 years and 73 days.
That famous saying of 'the rest was history' certainly comes to mind for a champion like Vettel.
Ten years later, four world championships later and now the German is fighting for a 5th driver's championship.
Only Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes stand in his way of that wish coming true for 2018.
To celebrate the ten year anniversary of Vettel's maiden win in the highest level in motor racing, Sportskeeda provides you with five memorable race wins of the Ferrari driver's career so far.
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#5 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix
The 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix was, of course, another race win for Sebastian Vettel but it will also go down as his first win for Ferrari.
Vettel joined the Italian giants at the end of the 2014 season after six successful years racing for Red Bull from 2009 to 2014.
Fernando Alonso left Ferrari and Vettel took over his position and it only took a couple of races for the four-time world champion to win in red.
During a period where Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg would dominate a massive share of races, Vettel was up there ready for the silver arrows to make mistakes and then make the killer move.
It wasn't the best of seasons for Ferrari and Vettel but it was early relief that for the team to get their first win under their new recruit.
#4 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix
Sticking with the Sepang International Circuit but let's go back two years before Vettel's first win for Ferrari.
2013 was the penultimate championship at Red Bull for Vettel.
At a time where Vettel was the best driver on the grid pretty much week in week out as no one could touch the RB9.
But the 2013 edition of the Malaysia race will always be remembered for the clash of Vettel and his teammate Mark Webber.
Both Vettel and Webber never saw eye to eye when working together under their boss Christian Horner.
The Australian was leading the race in Malaysia and the team's plan was to keep Webber in P1 and Vettel trailing in P2.
But Vettel had other ideas and overtook Webber with the team radio expressing their anger to Vettel as his colleagues were not happy with the overtake.
The podium was very awkward when Martin Brundle interviewed them both in front of a big crowd.
Many learnt that Vettel would never accept second best, the elements of a world champion.
#3 2013 Indian Grand Prix
2013 was such a dominant display from Sebastian Vettel in the RB9.
Out of the 19 races from the 2013 calendar, Vettel won 13 of them and since then we have not seen anything like it in terms of one horse races.
The 2013 Indian Grand Prix was round 16 and Vettel was expected to seal his fourth successive world championship.
The season for most fans was seen as very dull as Vettel lead most races from start to finish especially after the summer break where he won nine races in a row.
And not only did he lead the races he led by nearly a gap of a minute.
When he crossed the finish line in India to add another race win to his long tally, Vettel became a quadruple world champion.
He celebrated the historic moment with a few donuts on the home straight in front of the grandstand and bowed down to his RB9.
It was one hell of a car.
#2 2008 Italian Grand Prix
September 14, 2008 - a 21-year-old inexperienced version of Vettel was behind the wheel of a Toro Rosso at the Italian Grand Prix.
The day before saw the German achieve his first ever pole position ahead of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen and future teammate Webber.
The weekend's weather was invaded by dark clouds and plenty of rain over the Monza circuit.
But despite the little experience the 21-year-old had leading an F1 race, Vettel crossed the finish line in first place in an Italian car to seal a memorable moment in the history of the sport.
The first many for Vettel and that race just show how talented the world champion really is - it was certainly no luck in that victory.
#1 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
The 2010 Formula One championship was far more than exhilarating.
Throughout the year the top teams of Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren were competing for both championships on offer making it an exciting time for the fans of the sport.
It all went down to the final race in the desert of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as this was the second time that F1 would take to the Yas Marina Circuit.
Vettel, Webber, Alonso and Hamilton were all in contention for the driver's championship.
A pole lap from Vettel was exactly the start to the weekend he needed in the championship decider for the following day.
His rivals qualified in the top five with Alonso favourite to take home his third world championship.
But a slip up from both Alonso and Webber in the race saw them hanging behind Renault's Vitaly Petrov as they had no answer to overtaking the Russian.
Vettel maintained his pole position and won one of the biggest races of his career so far.
A first world championship at just 23 years old marks Vettel as the youngest world champion still to this very day in F1 history.
What an achievement!
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