5 Nov 2013

Vettel equals F1 history with 7th straight victory

12:11 pm on 5 November 2013

The four-times world motor racing champion Sebastian Vettel has won the Abu Dhabi grand prix by a massive margin and equalled the longest winning streak in Formula One's modern history.

The 26-year-old Red Bull driver had 40 seconds up his sleeve when he made his second pitstop, and took the chequered flag half a minute ahead of his second-placed Australian team-mate Mark Webber.

Vettel has now won 11 races this season, and his seventh success in a row equals the single-season tally racked up by fellow German Michael Schumacher in 2004.

Vettel led every lap of the Abu Dhabi race, beating pole-sitter Webber into the first corner and disappearing into the night.

Germany's Nico Rosberg was third, followed by Frenchman Romain Grosjean, Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, and Britain's Paul di Resta.