JUMP START?
S
ebastian Vettel was adamant
that Austrian Grand Prix
winner Valtteri Bottas jumped
the start, despite the fact that race
officials had the Mercedes driver’s
reaction time at 0.201 of a second
and within the limits.
During the podium interviews
Vettel told Martin Brundle, “I was
pretty sure he jumped it.”
A few minutes later during
the post race press conference
the Ferrari driver remained
unconvinced, “From my point of
view he jumped the start but…
obviously I was sure that he did; it
looked like it from the inside of the
car but it’s not for me to judge at the
end of the day.”
“I probably was a bit late
because it’s quite tricky then to keep
standing still but yeah, I think it was
OK. I had a bit of wheelslip later on
but overall I thought it was a good
start.”
He was then told of Bottas’
reaction time and replied, “Don’t
believe that.”
Later, during the press
conference, he was pressed again
about the matter, to which he
responded, “First of all, to clarify it,
I don’t want to take anything away
from Valtteri, I think he drove an
excellent race. Obviously at the end,
with a difficult car he didn’t do a
mistake, so he performed well.”