25 May, 2022 @ 14:15
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F1’s Sebastian Vettel chases thieves in Barcelona following Spanish GP

Formula 1 Championship Formula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio De EspaÑa 2022 Race , Barcelona, Spain
May 22, 2022, Barcelona, Spain: Barcelona, Spain, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, May 22, 2022, 20.05.2022, Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, F1 Pirelli Grand Prix von Spanien 2022 , im Bild Sebastian Vettel (DEU), Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team during FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÃ?â??A 2022 Race - Formula 1 Championship. (Credit Image: © Alessio De Marco/LPS via ZUMA Press Wire)

F1 driver Sebastian Vettel was in a race of a different kind when he tried to chase down thieves who had snatched his bag.

The four-time world champion hopped on an electric scooter and weaved through the streets of Barcelona after his possessions were grabbed through the window of his car.

He was still in the city following the Spanish Grand Prix when the thieves struck.

Formula 1 Championship Formula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio De EspaÑa 2022 Race , Barcelona, Spain
Sebastian Vettel in Barcelona © Alessio De Marco/LPS via ZUMA Press Wire/Cordon Press

The German, who races for Aston Martin, used the GPS signal from his AirPods that were in the bag to track the crooks. But when he finally caught up all he found were the earphones with no sign of his bag or the thieves.

It is thought they had discarded the AirPods precisely because they knew they could be traced.

The incident rounded off a disappointing few days for Vettel. He could only steer his Aston Martin to 11th place in the Spanish GP – one off the points.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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