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Marko: Vettel no longer the best but don't write him off

Helmut Marko, the man who ‘discovered and made' Sebastian Vettel, has admitted that the four-time Formula 1 World Champion is no longer one of the best drivers on the grid and blames it on the ongoing polemics at Ferrari. The tale of Marko mentoring Vettel through his junior career to F1 via Toro Rosso and then, of course, those momentous four years with Red Bull are the stuff of legend. But since then, Vettel has spent five years at Ferrari with relatively little success, while his shares have plummeted amid his sporadic form and constant errors, big and small. At the same, time Charles Leclerc in the sister car has made the German's life alot more complicated than it has ever been...
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