Vettel annoyed with Ferrari 'nonsense'
Vettel annoyed with Ferrari 'nonsense'
Sebastian Vetel was frustrated by a "nonsense" decision from Ferrari in second practice for the Japanese Grand Prix. Vettel has expressed dissatisfaction with several strategy decisions from his team in recent weeks and a decision to use up vital engine mileage at the end of Friday's second session left him annoyed again.
The Italian and Singapore Grands Prix left Vettel particularly frustrated with Ferrari's tactics in qualifying, which left him unable to catch a rapidly improving Mercedes.
It would appear that the Scuderia are once again playing catch up to Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas after Vettel was left eight tenths of a second adrift of Hamilton in FP2, with the decision to run late on likely souring Vettel's mood further.
Over team radio, Vettel said: "Taking the last lap there was nonsense, we should have saved the mileage."
Vettel had his own theory for Ferrari's deficit to Mercedes, suggesting that he and Kimi Raikkonen might have been culpable.
#FP2 results: #Seb5 P3 and #Kimi7 P5. #JapaneseGP #ForzaFerrari pic.twitter.com/QDW0D9EIFe — Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) October 5, 2018
You can always do something, the question is if it works," Vettel told Sky Sports.
"Obviously you don't want to commit suicide, so I think if we attack we will still try to be reasonable.
"It's a long race. Today, I think we were probably both sliding a little bit too much and therefore damaging the tyres probably a bit more than others.
"I think overall it's been OK. It's been a clean Friday: no interruptions, no issues with the car or anything. So I think we can focus on our work and now we try to obviously squeeze out everything that's left in the car for tomorrow."
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