With just a few days left until the 2017 Canadian Grand Prix, Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel says that hard work and determanation are the main factors which led to the Maranello team’s impressive consistency during the beginning of the 2017 Formula 1 season and has played down theories his car naturally suits every circuit, adding that Ferrari still has a lot of planning and developing to do in the second part of the championship to be able to successfully challenge Mercedes in the fight for the title.
Sebastian Vettel has finished in the top two at every round this season and currently has a solid 25 point lead in the drivers’ standings after winning at the Monaco Grand Prix. In contrast to his metronomic consistency, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has struggled to get the most from his car, especially during races where the softest compounds were used. But Sebastian Vettel explains that it is wrong for people to assume Ferrari has it easy at every round: “No, it’s not fair I think. We do a lot of work. We got it wrong Friday in Barcelona, on a track where you’ve usually got the setup covered, but we recovered for Saturday, which was good. I don’t know about the other cars, I heard other cars are really difficult to drive. It’s never easy to go quick, it’s never easy to get the best out of the car, there is always something that you would like different once you get out of the car. You can all run the racing driver excuses. Didn’t someone write a book about racing driver excuses? Maybe if I retire one day that could be a best-selling book. So I don’t think it’s easy to find the perfect setup, but we have plenty of choice that’s the problem. If you only had two bars, it’s easy to set it up, but there’s so many things you can do. I don’t know, I think we just keep it quiet and just try to do our job.” – the German driver said, as reported by the Italian media on Thursday, ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton earlier expressed his concerns that the problems encountered on the streets of Monte Carlo could follow him to Montreal, while Sebastian Vettel said it is important for Ferrari to take advantage of the positive moment and target another win this Sunday, in the Canadian Grand Prix: “Looking back it’s true to say they didn’t have the best weekend in Monaco, true to say we had an excellent weekend finishing one and two … it’s important. How important? I think we will know once we’re done with the season. I think with so many races it’s normal that you will have some races where you’ll struggle. You will have a DNF, usually it’s inevitable, and you will have good races, normally the races that do decide are the races that are supposed to go wrong and you turn it around. With stuff like that I think it equals out over the course of the season normally.” – Scuderia Ferrari’s German driver concluded.
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