F1 1000th GP: 5 Greatest F1 Drivers (1999-2019)

Sebastian Vettel: 2007 onward

F1 Grand Prix of Brazil - Race

There are myriad ways of understanding one of the sport's most celebrated and charismatic drivers. To some, Sebastian Vettel- 52 race wins, 111 podiums, 4 World titles- is a huge success, perhaps a true icon.

To others, the Heppenheim-born driver is the man who is second-best only to Lewis Hamilton.

But to some, it may not be entirely incorrect to suggest that the 31-year-old German is perhaps in search of a second wind; a man so seemingly desperate to find what seems to be a lost groove.

For someone who was, at one point in time, the youngest Grand Prix winner at 21 years and 74 days, when he won the 2008 Italian GP, Vettel's gone from being the man who 'could have' broken Schumacher's record into being a tired fighter up against his arch-nemesis: Lewis Hamilton.

Currently driving in his fifth straight season for the Scuderia, it remains to be seen what this truly fantastic driver can do in 2019, especially given his experience boasts of a literal 'reign' at Red Bull at a consistent streak of winning at Australia, Bahrain, among other circuits (as seen until 2018).