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Vettel: “We are struggling a bit to get back into winter form”

Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) does not want to panic after losing to Mercedes in qualifying in China. He also returns to the delicate moment at the end of Q3, where you have to overtake several cars to pass before the end of the timer.

Published on 13/04/2019 à 11:16

Medhi Casaurang

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Vettel: “We are struggling a bit to get back into winter form”

Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) was unable to do anything in the face of the domination of Mercedes, Saturday April 13 in Shanghai (China). The four-time Formula 1 world champion will start from third place Sunday (departure at 8 a.m. French time), while having conceded three tenths to Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes). 

“If we can't beat them, it's very important to be right behind them, explains Sebastian Vettel to the Silver Arrows. I'm reasonably happy because I managed to improve the car over the sessions. However, I was not fully satisfied as there was still more to extract. »

 

The wearer of number 5 had to get out of a bad situation at the end of Q3. If he had stayed behind the line of cars, he would not have crossed the start/finish line before the end of the timer and would not have recorded the third time. “ It was a bit complicated. We were all fighting for the same spot. I was at the end of the line when I came out of the pits. The team told me that I only had a margin of 10 seconds before crossing the line before the end of the timer, he reveals.

So I had to find a solution and I attacked. If the other drivers had been warned, they would have accelerated like me. Everyone would have passed. » Which was not the case for the Red Bulls and Haas. 

Obviously behind the results of the winter tests in Barcelona (Spain), Sebastian Vettel wants to be rational. “ We have a high-performance platform from which we must extract performance. During the Barcelona tests, everything was going very well. From, we are struggling a bit to get back into that shape. 

In Bahrain, things didn't go the way I wanted. But we're getting closer. We learn different things which are revealed on the tracks at the start of the season, and which are especially not highlighted in Barcelona. They are different circuits. »

Medhi Casaurang

Passionate about the history of motorsport across all disciplines, I learned to read thanks to AUTOhebdo. At least that's what my parents tell everyone when they see my name inside!

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