Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel admitted the fact that he expects a close fight with new team mate Charles Leclerc in the 2019 Formula One season. Sebastian Vettel said he hasn’t spoken to Charles much yet when asked if he expects his new Ferrari team mate to run him close:
“I don’t know, we will see. It’s always close when you drive the same car. I think he got the seat for a reason. You can always learn: it doesn’t matter if your team mate is younger, older, more or less races. I think there’s always something you can learn inside or outside the car.”
Jock Clear is returning to his familiar role as race engineer for 2019.
The 55-year-old rose to prominence in 1997, as he guided Jacques Villeneuve to the world championship with Williams. Jock Clear followed Villeneuve to BAR, with the Brackley team subsequently becoming Honda, Brawn and Mercedes. He switched to Ferrari for 2015, where he has had a more senior engineering role. Clear has worked with the likes of Johnny Herbert, Villeneuve, David Coulthard, Takuma Sato and other young drivers, and thinks he can now make “life easier” for Leclerc as well as the Sauber rookie adjusts to life in red: “I will help in any way I can to make his life easier, to ease some of the pressure and to make sure that we get the best out of him and out of the team as a whole over the next few years,” he said.
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