This past Sunday, 20 November, marked the retirement of Sebastian Vettel as a Formula 1 driver. The four-time world champion signed off in style, steering his not very competitive Aston Martin into a points position at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. His enduring popularity with both other drivers and the Formula 1 media meant that several tributes were made to him on social media and elsewhere. And many of them had Vettel spinning his car around in a tyre burnout after winning his fourth Drivers’ World Championship on the start-finish line of a circuit. That circuit was the...