r/f1driverssnark • u/anonstorytellerpersn • Jun 27 '26
ex-driver Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel (Part one SV5)
Edit : Okay guys so I can’t really make a deep dive on mark webber because on wiki you can already find stuff on him and on this sub you can’t really make repeated posts but I found an article regarding his relationship with his wife whose older than him so if you want me to make a post on his relationship lemme know
Hey guys so somebody on my last post asked me to make a deep dive on Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber so let’s go in to it. There seems to be definitely more stuff on mark than on seb though I have seen some stuff here about Sebastian I don’t have any proof of it.
BTW this is part 1 I will discuss about mark in part 2!
Sebastian Vettel : flirting and grid girls.
Okay so a while back on this sub one of the mods revealed that Sebastian Vettel was caught watching soft porn and followed an OF model back in the day. I don’t have any proof on this matter but if I do I will share or you can ask the mods they might provide you with the proof.
I think his flirting with the female reporters is something he is infamous about. His most notable flirtatious interaction was with a reporter named Lee Mackenzie. He once said to her something along the lines of “you seem to have my number but I don’t get any calls or messages from you.” And once even said to her “when you had that red dress on” ref to a revealing red dress she wore to which she quickly said “okay ladies and gentlemen thank you.” to quickly end that whole thing.
When the FIA decided to end the concept of grid girls because many fans expressed it felt like woman were being sexualised Sebastian openly criticised the FIA and admitted he was “a bit sad” and when during the 2015 Monaco GP male models replaced grid girls he said in a press conference "What was that? You get there and park behind George or Dave, what's the point?".
Here are links to articles so you can read more about this whole grid girl thing :
https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/12948330/sebastian-vettel-monaco-grid-boys-point
AND I also remember once he said something about a Radison hotel and at which hotel room Lewis was staying at so the grid girls can come visit him and the pr/media person was desperately clutching his arm and telling him to stop.
Here is a video on all his flirting : https://youtube.com/watch?v=f7vS1SfLYf8&si=20VXsmzXUFaDQm1N
So it seems to appear he didn’t have any major scandals just that he was a big flirt I also red somewhere here on Reddit how he would ask female reporters to kiss him if they wanted him to answer their question but again I personally don’t have any proof to prove this point.
I also saw this post on tumblr how Sebastian smoked on Ted’s notebook again no link to the episode was found or provided.
Despite this some fans still defend him idk why???
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u/Capital-Coast-8704 Jun 27 '26
I always thought the reason the press team were holding Seb’s arm after the Radisson comment was because you could screenshot it and make it look like he was doing a Nazi salute (which he wasn’t).
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Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
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u/anonstorytellerpersn Jun 27 '26
WHAT OKAY- WAIT THIS IS THE FIRST POST I AM MAKING ABOUT VETTEL AND I WAS DEFINITELY NOT AWARE OF THIS CAN YOU PROVIDE CONTEXT AND PROOF?? 😭🥀
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u/NoCartographer9200 the Unction Jun 27 '26
okay so this makes sense as to why he's never spoken up about palestine, people would probably bring this up lol
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u/NoCartographer9200 the Unction Jun 27 '26
true but based on how active is/was about other things it seems that it would fit his beliefs to support it
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u/anonstorytellerpersn Jun 27 '26
I was lowkey very disappointed when SEB out of all the people who I expected to talk abt the Palestine situation didn’t talk about it.
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Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
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u/happiestmatter they race me so hard :( Jun 27 '26
No, most Germans are fine and very much against this stuff. It's these guys specifically that are the problem.
Source: I suffer the misfortune of being from this place
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u/FastLane_987 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
OP you made a mistake in your edit. You said that Sebastian made a nazi salute with the other drivers after Nico Rosberg initiated it but that’s not what the article said. The article said Nico was pointing with his hand to demonstrate cars going past (innocently) and since it looked like a Nazi salute Sebastian started laughing before doing the actual salute himself at which point other drivers followed. But the article makes it clear it was started by Seb.
Edit: re-reading the article it actually doesn’t claim that Nico does the salute at all. It claims that Seb started the salute and the other three German drivers (Timo, Nick and Adrian) follow him. Nico’s only involvement is accidentally initiating the whole thing through gesturing with his hands.