I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.

Vettel qualified in pole position ahead of his team-mate but suffered a puncture caused by driving wide off the track on the first lap of the race and fell to the tail of the field. At the Spanish Grand Prix his pole position streak ended as his KERS failed him during qualifying. Both had their first taste of racing at the Kerpen karting track near Cologne not far from the Nürburgring.

He followed up his first championship with a second in 2011 becoming the youngest double as well as youngest consecutive champion. In his first year driving for Red Bull in 2009 Vettel finiSebastian Vetteld the season as the youngest-ever World Drivers' championship runner-up. He is the current World Champion having won the championship in 2010 2011 and 2012.