OUR BIGGEST OPPONENTS
The Allison speculation prompted
Arrivabene to comment, “A couple
of days ago I read what was written
about [James] and, in my opinion, to
me it is a matter of disrespect.”
After the race in Montreal there
were more negative headlines as
the team botched their race strategy,
which in the end probably cost them
their first victory of the season.
In the race Vettel led early on
after a great start from the second
row on the grid. He catapulted ahead
of the Mercedes duo, before Turn 1,
and put him in control of proceedings.
However a virtual safety car
period less than a dozen laps into the
race prompted a call from the Ferrari
pit wall for Vettel to come in for a tyre
change, upon which he relinquished
the lead and in retrospect, at that
point, lost the race due to another
dubious strategy call by his team.
Immediately afterwards
Arrivabene admitted, “We
overestimated the degradation of the
tyres. That’s the reason we brought
[Vettel] in and it’s the wrong decision.”
Despite the disappointment
and opportunity lost, Vettel was not
pointing fingers and rallied behind
his team, “The degradation wasn’t
maybe as high as we expected.
That’s maybe where we lost the race.
But I want to make one thing clear:
I’m not a big fan of blaming anyone or
anything.”