Sebastian Vettel says his performance in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi GP is “nothing to mention”, superseded by the emotions of his farewell to Ferrari and the feelings towards those he will miss.

Vettel concluded his final race with the Scuderia a lowly P14, a position that perhaps reflected a difficult back half of the 2020 season.

The German driver enjoyed a good first stint that saw him race among the top-ten just ahead of teammate Charles Leclerc as the pair pressed on during an early safety car period.

But both drivers eventually fell down the order later in the evening after their switch to fresh rubber, with Leclerc clocking in P13 with Vettel two spots behind.

The performance was uneventful, as Vettel described it himself, but the emotions of the day were certainly palpable for the future Aston Martin Racing driver.

“For sure, it was an emotional day, with the mechanic waving goodbye on the grid,” he said. “I felt there was just a different dynamic and tension there.

“I mean the result is nothing to mention, the race is nothing to mention, but yeah, I really enjoyed the little gestures starting from the beginning of the weekend.

“The mechanics, the engineers – all these people that I worked with for so long in those years, and so hard. I’m sad for the guys, I will miss them, but also obviously happy to embark on a new journey.”

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Leclerc, who sported a special lid in Abu Dhabi that paid tribute to his teammate, swapped helmets with his teammate after the race, conceding that his presence alongside Vettel at Ferrari in the past two season had helped him develop into a better driver.

“It’s been great to have Seb on the other side of the garage for two years,” said the Monegasque.

“He’s an amazing person, an amazing driver to, and he pushed me to perform better and to improve.”

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The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast recently spoke with WWE Hall Of Famer Harley Race about his legendary career. Below are some highlights:

On what students take away from a Harley Race Wrestling Camp: “They are going to learn how to take care of themselves and then how to perform inside that squared circle. After that we start sticking them into the ring and see how they would look for the public. When you’ve got the physical side and that’s pretty much all the way down then the other parts will come along to you fairly easy.”

On heat with Ric Flair during his career and not wanting to drop the NWA Title: “Overall, Flair and I have had a hellishly active part of wrestling. He knows and I know that we are too old to want to get involved with this stuff now. In 1983, Flair was just starting to really get involved and I was at that point in time thinking that that he wasn’t ready but once he got really involved in the championship part of it (the business) he came along to be one of the best ever. Flair proved to me that he was a good hand in the ring and he was in there with the absolute very best so it was all pretty easy from there.”

On memories of Dusty Rhodes: “Dusty was probably one of the best interview people ever in wrestling. He could talk about anything on the face of God’s green earth and make it sound like it was extremely important. Overall, Dusty could perform in that ring as well as just about anybody. I never really had a bad performance with Dusty in any of the matches that we ever had. There are very few people that I can say that about.”

On working against Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr. and if he has a preference between the two: “Dory was very, very good in the ring. He and Terry both were great in there but I can’t mention one without mentioning the other. Between the two of them it was just the flip of a coin, with Dory you could have a little bit better of a wrestling match. Terry was good for wrestling but he was very very good at scrambling.”

On bodyslamming Andre The Giant: “The only reservation I ever had was to have everything in the right spot at the right time and to be able to come up with him. Because you were lifting the world’s biggest athlete. It was a hell of a lot better to be on the same side as him.”

On the WWF’s national expansion and invading “his territory” during the 1980s: “By the time they had done the expansion you knew that they were going around the whole entire country. I didn’t want to get involved in fights with them or against them. I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide and that is what I did for a long time.”

Check out the complete interview at Podomatic.com.

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