Ferrari red? Why Seb Vettel still bleeds Red Bull matte blue

After winning 4 world championships on the trot between 2010 and 2013, Seb Vettel's start to the hybrid era was marred by an underperforming Renault engine and rather quick teammate Daniel Ricciardo who consistently showed the German up.

With Vettel being an outspoken Michael Schumacher fan and the Scuderia deeply invested in reporting the 4-time world champion to Italian lands, the move came to fruition, which started Red Bull's quest for Vettel's championship heir, and having skipped Ricciardo altogether, the staff landed on Max Verstappen, who's gardnered the same number of titles Vettel did in his Red Bull stint.

Nevertheless the move to Ferrari proved unsuccessful for the German, as he was unable to bring the title glory back to Ferrari, like his childhood here, Schumacher did in the early 2000's.

Vettel fell to a sharper Lewis Hamilton aboard a much stronger Mercedes altogether, and by 2019 a young and fiesty Charles Leclerc started beating the German more often than not, in what was the Monegasque's first year at Ferrari, second season in F1.

Ahead of the 2020 season, after five seasons on the team, Vettel was dispatched as the Scuderia caught the scent of potential future champion in Leclerc, and chose to bet on the unproven youngster over the German veteran. After two seasons at Aston Martin Vettel pulled the plug on his F1 career.

Speaking to ORF, the four-time world champion confessed to having no regrets over his move to Ferrari, even is he still had a blue-matte-beating heart.

"I think that, even though I had a great time afterwards. But a big part of me still identifies with Red Bull and Red Bull Racing," the German concluded.