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[bourbon]

CNN is doing a special this weekend on Sebastian Vettel:

 

http://worldsport.bl...hind-the-wheel/

 

1400 and 2130 Saturday Dec 7

1030 Sunday Dec 8

0430 Monday Dec 9

(all times GMT)

Edited by bourbon, 05 December 2013 - 14:33.

[jjcale]

SV fans ....could you tell us a bit more about Gerhard Noack  please:

 

 

 

And we found the same understated pride at the Kerpen Kart Club, where Vettel started racing. Michael Schumacher as well.

But the club certainly isn’t exploiting the success of its alumni.

Tucked away in an old gravel pit outside Cologne, you’d drive straight past without a second glance if you didn’t have a bit of local knowledge or a top of the range sat-nav.

If Heppenheim is a million miles from F1, this place is in the next galaxy.

And this is where we found the man who gave me the biggest insight into Vettel. A man who has been part of the kart club for 35 years, and although now its president – he still runs and works in the shop at the circuit selling kart parts and kit.

An incongruous setting for someone who is surely alongside the likes of Alex Ferguson as one of sport’s most successful managers.

I’m not exaggerating. Gerhard Noack masterminded the careers of both Schumacher and Vettel – that’s 11 F1 titles and counting.

Not that you’d know it to meet him. Noack is not a man to blow his own trumpet, or get carried away by his incredible achievements.

He gave up his business to support Vettel in his early days. He acted as mechanic, coach, friend, mentor. But still says “I think I am just lucky” when asked his secret.

There isn’t an ounce of inflated ego here.

So the more I think of where Vettel grew up, of the man who guided a young Sebastian off the track, and of Schumacher’s legacy he’s following on it....

 

This is intruiging. 

Edited by jjcale, 05 December 2013 - 16:25.

[ANF]

Here he is.

[apoka]

Gerhard Noack was actually responsible for both Schumachers and Vettel. That means building the foundation for 136 F1 race wins.

 

The article was a nice read, but didn't surprise me. Vettel enjoys living on the countryside out of the spotlight. He is easily misunderstood, since that lifestyle doesn't fit a super star.

 

[plumtree]

SV fans ....could you tell us a bit more about Gerhard Noack  please:

 

[snip]

 

This is intruiging. 

I had a similar curiosity a few months ago.   These are the articles I found informative - some parts are repetitive.

 

- (Oct. 2011) http://www.telegraph...-were-made.html

Kerpen, the club where F1 greats Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher were made

 

- (Nov. 2010) This seems to be the post Abu Dhabi '10 interview of him that Tom Cary referred to in the above article.

http://www.tagesspie...er/2732146.html (in German)

Vettel Discoverer: "I knew in 1997 he will be the champion"

 

- (Sep. 2008) Another interview he gave after Seb's Monza win.

http://www.rp-online...ister-1.1642176 (in German)

 

- (Apr. 2010) Seb's answer to a question 'Who is Gerhard Noack' http://i.imgur.com/jETdcvK.jpg

If I'm not wrong, Noack was one of the people that Seb specially thanked in the Indian GP post race press conference.

 

 

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http://www.express.d...200,744430.html (in German)

 

(Sep. 2008) Express visit Heppenheim 'The Vettel-nest: his school, his parents' house...'

Edited by plumtree, 05 December 2013 - 18:35.

[jjcale]

Thanks, fellas

[kenkip]

Great stuff,hope it shows..it may have to be overun by the Mandela news breaking today.