Strangely, Vettel’s take on Thunberg shows what made him such a special driver. ‘Why do I need an education when the world is going to be uninhabitable?’” And whereas everybody else is sort of numb to it-we have lives, we have things going on, we have other interests, and all of that-she is just being logical. “For her, our inaction on the climate crisis just doesn’t make sense, because it doesn’t make sense. “For her, what’s so confusing-and also so sad-is that I think she’s just very honest about what she feels.” He views it as related to her condition. “Greta has Asperger’s syndrome,” Vettel says. SIGN UP FOR GRID NOTES, ROAD & TRACK'S NEW MOTORSPORTS NEWSLETTER. But I didn’t anticipate that Vettel would know everything about her. I knew a bit about Thunberg, the young Swedish firebrand who has become one of the world’s foremost advocates of climate-change awareness. “Can I buy a pair nearby?”) Except this conversation is deep, elemental. (“How very flashy,” Schumacher said, smiling. In the history of strange conversations with F1 champions, this is up there with an impromptu exchange I once had with Michael Schumacher in a Monaco alley, about the orange stitching on my brand-new pair of Adidas. We’re sitting in Aston Martin F1’s paddock at the Hungaroring outside Budapest, a few days before the Hungarian Grand Prix. “Is Greta an activist, or is she just a very concerned citizen of our planet?” SIGN UP FOR THE TRACK CLUB BY R&T FOR MORE EXCLUSIVE STORIESĬertainly, Greta Thunberg is an activist, I propose. This story originally appeared in Volume 13 of Road & Track. It’s hard to argue against it: Over the past couple of years, even as he’s struggled to find top-10 finishes with the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team, Vettel has become the sport’s loudest voice on topics many racing fans won’t appreciate: civil rights, boycotting Russia, the plight of underprivileged children, the burdens placed on the Global South, and, most significantly, climate change, which he believes is linked to everything. He’s scratching his scruffy face and grimacing, bristling at the accusation that he has become one. “What is an activist?” asks Sebastian Vettel.
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