Hamilton leads tributes to ‘one of the greatest in F1’ Vettel

On Thursday ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Vettel announced via his new Instagram account that he would be retiring from F1 at the end of the 2022 season.

Both Hamilton and Vettel have been racing in F1 for almost exactly the same time, with the latter making his debut midway through the 2007 campaign that also marked Hamilton’s first.

Former title rivals in the late 2010s during Vettel’s stint at Ferrari, both drivers in recent years have emerged as the moral…