Let us rewind 12 months almost to the day, to the slightly smoggy landscape of the Buddh International Circuit. The Indian Grand Prix had just reached its conclusion, and the smog indeed was now supplemented by no little tyre smoke, as one Sebastian Vettel in his Red Bull let rip with burning up the black stuff via a few doughnuts on the pit straight. He’d just taken his fourth world drivers’ title, and was marking it with a display of even less constrained joy than usual. More pointedly it was his sixth win on the bounce, amid one of those periodic F1 spells wherein it was impossible to envisage anyone else winning a Grand Prix. Indeed he helped himself to the remaining three...
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