Sébastien
Buemi
Switzerland
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WEC
Date of birth | 31 October 1988 |
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Place of birth | Vaud, Switzerland |
Age | 37 |
Nationality | Switzerland |
Career start | 2003 |
Disciplines | WEC / Formula E |
Sébastien Buemi had his first taste of proper F1 power when he was just 15. It was the same year that he made the transition from karts to racing cars and, as luck would have it, TAG Heuer needed a young driver to take the wheel of a past-season Arrows F1 car. Sébastien was the man – or boy – for the job. That year he finished third in the German Formula BMW championship just behind another future F1 driver, Sebastian Vettel.
As the points kept on coming for Buemi, so did the opportunities to work his way up the open-wheel classes. In 2006, he raced in the F3 EuroSeries for the first time, finishing 12th overall.