Here, after all, is a young man, already dubbed ‘Baby Schumi’ by Germany’s tabloid press, winning the first of what will presumably be multiple world championships, and all at the tender age of 23.
Plenty of time yet to match Schumacher's incredible haul of seven world titles. And yet, their phenomenal ability to drive racing cars apart, there is little similarity between the two men.
Vettel is careful always to compliment his elder compatriot, crediting him with having been the inspiration behind his entry into the sport.
But from the moment he first raced for BMW at Indianapolis in 2007, becoming F1’s youngest points scorer in the process, he has rejected the obvious link to the Red Baron.
Schumacher is serious, intense and made his name as the most ruthless and aggressive driver F1 has known. Famous for his win-at-all-costs attitude, the 41 year-old returned to the sport this year after a three-year hiatus.
Despite appearing to have mellowed, he nearly put former Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello into a wall in Budapest. He said sorry in a prepared statement the next day.
Vettel is laid-back, engaging and likes Little Britain. Picked up by Red Bull’s junior driver programme at a tender age, he has more in common with Lewis Hamilton than Schumacher.
Like McLaren’s starlet — the man he has replaced as F1’s youngest champion — he was groomed, protected and arrived in F1 a ready-made race winner.
Vettel can be petulant — his reaction to Webber’s purple patch in the early summer was a concern — and former F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve recently called him “spoilt”.
There is no point denying that he is Red Bull’s golden boy, which is why he came off badly in the intra-team battle with Mark Webber. Not much he can do about that.
But he is fast maturing. After crashing into Jenson Button at Spa, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh labelled Vettel the “crash kid”. He knuckled down and hardly put a foot wrong from then on.
There are still lingering doubts over his racing ability but with such blistering qualifying pace he is nearly always leading from the front anyway.
Vettel is set for multiple world championships. Just don’t call him Baby Schumi.
Under the  in 's floodlights, German driver  added a new Formula One record to his list as youngest winner of the championship at 23 years. On Saturday, Vettel took the title at  of . 

Starting from pole position, the  driver led the race right through except during pit stops, when reigning world champion  led for a few laps.
Sebastian Vettel is the youngest Formula-1 world champion at the age of 23 years
Championship leader  started the race 11 points ahead of . With 25 points for a win, 18 for second and 15 for third, the Spaniard only needed to finish second to secure his third world championship. With a 15-point lag behind Alonso, Sebastian Vettel was third in the championship standings; winning the championship depended on neither Alonso nor Webber finishing on the podium.

A major accident between  and  on the first lap of the race triggered deployment of the . Alonso and Webber were among drivers who decided to make earlier than planned pit stops while racing was resricted. However, they rejoined the track behind the  of , who proved extremely difficult to overtake. Both remained stuck behind Petrov for the remainder of the race, finishing 7th and 8th respectively to score 6 and 4 points.

Sebastian Vettel went on to win the race ahead of the two  of  and , scoring 25 championship points to give a total of 256 - only 4 ahead of Alonso.

Vettel had never previously led this year's contest. He had to wait until championship favorites Alonso and Webber crossed the finish line in 7th and 8th positions respectively before receiving the news by team radio. With his voice breaking among tears and laughter, Vettel thanked his team for their efforts throughout the season. He won five races from ten pole positions.

Since the start of his F1 career, Vettel’s name has repeatedly entered record books.

In 2007, he replaced an injured  in the . Finishing 8th and collecting one championship point; this his first record was youngest driver to score a point in F1.

In 2008, Vettel had the opportunity to race for a full season with , winning what remains that team's only race victory. At the , he became the youngest driver to qualify in pole position and youngest race winner. 

In 2009, he moved to , scoring that team’s first pole position and first race victory. He went on to finish second in the world championship.


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