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Has Sebastian Vettel overcome the demons of 2018?

What a long winter it must have been for Sebastian Vettel.

How tempting to dwell on the turning points that lost him the 2018 world championship. That underwhelming qualifying lap in Singapore; that collision with Lewis Hamilton on the first lap at Monza; that moment he threw away the lead of his home race at Hockenheim. Championship-winning opportunities like 2018 don't come along very often, and missing out on them can add some serious baggage to a driver's career. There is no way of knowing how the season would have panned out had he not made those errors -- perhaps Hamilton still would have emerged victorious with a superior car in the last few races -- but arguably that 'what if?