The victim of a theft in Barcelona, ​​the day after the F1 Grand Prix, the German pilot Sebastian Vettel launched Monday in pursuit of the criminals, guided by the GPS of his headphones in the stolen bag, said Tuesday the police.

The driver, who had participated in the Spanish Grand Prix in Montmelo, near Barcelona, ​​on Sunday, was in the Catalan metropolis on Monday when a bag was stolen from him as he got out of his car, explained Tuesday to the AFP a spokesperson for the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan regional police.

Vettel then “pursued” them by activating the geolocation option of his headphones which were in the stolen backpack and notified the police.

According to the Barcelona daily El Periodico, Sebastian Vettel asked a woman who was passing by to lend him her electric scooter, using which he set off after them. The police did not confirm this information.

The pilot followed their trail until he managed to get his hands on his headphones that the thieves had abandoned, said the police spokesman. However, they kept the bag.

A spokesperson for Aston Martin, Vettel's team, told AFP that the driver had "tried to find the bag using his iPhone to locate the headphones that were inside".

“But when he managed to locate the earphones, they had been abandoned and he was therefore unable to locate the stolen bag,” the spokesperson added.

Citing police sources, El Periodico says the thieves would have suspected, correctly, that the headphones could be equipped with a GPS and had got rid of them for this reason.