Ich spreche kein Englisch
March 2013
Sebastian Vettel blamed his blatant disregard of team orders yesterday on the fact that he didn’t realise he was being given a team order. Most observers were left with the distinct impression that the young German, who is fluent in English, just wanted to beat his slow team mate but, in the post-race press conference, it emerged that Vettel doesn’t speak English at all. When asked why he disobeyed his team, he replied:
“Ich bin ein dummer kleiner Junge, der an meinen Teamkollegen zerstören will. Ich glaube nicht, sprechen Ihre Sprache und ich verstehe nicht, was Sie mich fragen. Das ist, was ich über, ja reden.”
Meanwhile at Mercedes, another German was getting hot under the collar after a similar incident with his new team mate. Despite being much faster than Hamilton, Nico Rosberg was told to drive as slow as Michael Schumacher did last year in order to allow Hamilton to finally be able to keep a trophy. Despite Rosberg doing his best boy band pout to the camera, many were left wondering whether their bromance is already over after Rosberg also mysteriously forgot how to speak Engliah.
“Ich hasse ihn. Er ruinierte mein Rennen. Wenn die neue Weltordnung kommt, werde ich ihn und das ganze Team zu zerstören. Thos Ungläubige werden für ihre Verbrechen bezahlen.”
