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ESPN's 2017 F1 awards: Overtake of the year

Related Topics: Overtaking, Sebastian Vettel

In the next of our awards for the 2017 F1 season, we look at how one driver ended misconceptions that he cannot overtake once and for all.

After four years driving for the dominant Red Bull team, Sebastian Vettel unfairly gained a reputation as a driver who couldn't overtake. Season after season of leading from the front in the best car on the grid led an increasingly large group of fans to believe that the German, while undoubtedly quick, was lacking something when it came to wheel-to-wheel combat. However, in China this year that misperception was put to bed once and for all.