Vettel: What makes Ferrari so special

Sebastian Vettel says the prevailing vision of Enzo Ferrari remains in place at the team to this day, and has expressed his delight to drive for his "favourite" Formula 1 team, while following in the footsteps of his hero and F1 legend, Michael Schumacher.

The Scuderia have not won a drivers' title since 2007 with Kimi Raikkonen, but Vettel appears to have strong chance this season, with Ferrari having produced a car quicker than Mercedes to end the Silver Arrows' dominance in the power stakes of F1's most modern era.

Ferrari are the only team to have competed in every season of F1, since being founded in 1929 by Enzo Ferrari, who remained with his hand on the tiller close to his death at the age of 90 in 1988.

In a La Stampa column published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Ferrari's passing, Vettel wrote: "From the first day I entered Ferrari at the end of 2014, I felt that the spirit of the founder, the spirit of Enzo Ferrari, was present everywhere in Maranello.

"I was born in 1987, just a year before Enzo Ferrari's death, so naturally I have never been able to meet him in person and today I can only imagine what our meeting would have been like.

"But I know I really wanted to know him, because I think he was a special person, a man with a vision: and this vision is still present today in the company and in the Scuderia he founded.

"The people who work here, regardless of their role, feel this presence and work with more passion. This is what makes Ferrari special, which makes Ferrari different from any other team: Ferrari is a myth for everyone.

"For me it has been since I was a child, and the red car was always my favourite or later, when I followed Schumacher's path with Ferrari. Ferrari is a myth and Ferrari's Formula 1 steering wheels are only two, so I consider it a privilege and an honour to be a Scuderia Ferrari driver."