Red Bull ace Sebastian Vettel has dismissed claims that his domination in Formula One is making the sport 'boring' like former star Michael Schumacher's domination did.
Vettel is one of only three men ever to have achieved back-to-back Grand Slams and is bidding to become the youngest four-time champion in history by winning the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend.
According to the Mirror, however, the German said that his achievements cannot be ranked alongside those of his idol and countryman Schumacher, even though Schumacher never managed to clean sweep in even two successive races.
According to Vettel, the gaps that he was able to build up during the Belgian Grand Prix was something between three and six seconds for the whole race as compared to Schumacher's 30 to 60 seconds a decade ago.
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