Vettel: “Not the best day for us”

Certainly Sebastian Vettel set the two best times of the day in FP1 and EL2 in Bahrain. Certainly, Ferrari was the fastest against her rivals Mercedes et Red Bull, the three teams being only separated by less than a tenth at the end of FP2.

However, the Italian clan did not have an easy start to the weekend on the Sakhir track. First of all, it was Kimi Räikkönen who saw himself slowed down in his progress in EL1 by an overheating of the turbo, forcing the Scuderia to replace the element on the Transalpine V6 Power Unit, as well as the thermal engine and the MGU. -H.

Vettel also suffered a scare in FP2, his SF70H completely shutting down after an electrical problem and forcing the German to stop at the entrance to the pit lane. “I can’t explain why the car stopped. We were able to restart the engine in the garage and luckily it happened at the end of the lap, comments Vettel.

Today was not the best day for us and we still need to do better. The car performs well on a single lap, and as with the race simulation, we can improve further tomorrow.

Overall, I'm not entirely happy with my long stints, but they weren't that bad, and we were also hampered by traffic. »