Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel admitted that the Maranello team was a lot more competitive in the United States Grand Prix because they undid up to four months of development work on their SF71H car.
Kimi Raikkonen won yesterday’s race at the Circuit of the Americas while Sebastian, who spun on the first lap of the race, finished fourth. Vettel admitted he had mixed feeling about the weekend, saying the team “took too long” to regain its lost form: “You can see it as good news but you can also see it’s bad news,” he said. “If we have to go back to a car that’s been competitive three or four months ago then surely it can’t be good news if you think about it.”
Scuderia Ferrari took a long time to realise the updates they brought to the car weren’t improving it, Sebastian confirmed: “It’s a bit hard to explain. If you don’t see that there’s a problem you don’t think that there’s a problem. Certainly we felt that the car was not as strong as it was before but if you don’t see that there’s anything wrong then you don’t know that there’s something wrong. I think all the steps that we did they seemed to make sense but obviously now looking back they didn’t. Clearly there was something we missed and we haven’t understood yet why and where the error exactly took off, or started. So as I said a lot of stuff we have to do and understand but I’m pretty sure we will do what is necessary and get on top of it.” – Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel concluded at the end of the 2018 United States Grand Prix.
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