SPANISH GRAND PRIX
POST RACE INTERVIEW
S
ebastian Vettel is seldom beaten by
his teammates but he had to play
second fiddle to Kimi Raikkonen at the
Spanish Grand Prix, third place his reward
for hard graft in the Barcelona sunshine.
Ferrari and the German were upbeat
about their chances in Spain as they showed
pace in the three practice sessions, but
mysteriously the form vanished in qualifying
and in the race, amid the demise of the
Mercedes duo, Vettel could do no better than
cross the line in third - sandwiched by his
current teammate in second and a former
teammate in fourth.
He spoke afterwards: “It was an
interesting race. Obviously we tried
everything. We tried to get ahead. In the end
I think we were surprised at how superior
the two-stop was, but yeah, from their point
of view, they tried to cover as much as they
can. They tried to cover with the lead car,
which made sense, but I think you could see
for both of us, Daniel and myself, that the
three-stop wasn’t really superior.
“Then I had an interesting race trying to
hold him off. They were quite competitive on
the medium tyres. Bit quicker than us in the
last sector, so bit difficult to hold him off. Once
it was very hairy, it was quite close into Turn
One, if I didn’t open up we just crash. In that
instant for sure I was on fire and complaining,
because if I don’t play according to his move
there is a crash.”