Sebastian Vettel having to save fuel but also race on engine 1 mode to be able to defend against Hamilton. Seb was adjusting the differential setting for 3/4 turns every lap.

This excellent article was written by a guy that watched the whole race everyone from Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel’s onboard and listened to all communications between Seb and the team. It highlights the level of workload Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari had to do in order to keep the lead over Mercedes, who showed a better pace during the race. Below is the link with some interesting text translated from the f1analisitecnica.com website, a very good analytical and technical blog.

The writer, Alex Brunetti, explains how Sebastian Vettel was seen adjusting the differential setting for 3/4 turns every lap while his teammate Charles Leclerc and most of the other drivers did that only at the hairpin.

Moreover, he spent most of the race on engine 1 mode, which is the highest setting, in order not to be overtaken by Lewis Hamilton, while lifting and coasting and trying to charge the ERS in every way possible every lap of the race. The race engineer had the concern that he would not be able to finish the race trying to defend from Lewis Hamilton like that.

Very impressive display from Sebastian despite the error, given all the things he had to focus on every lap of the race:

• 14 corners in Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

• 70 laps

• 980 corners total

• Sebastian made a mistake on 0.102% of corners

• Has 99.898% perfect race

Click here to read the direct translation from the source blog f1analisitecnica.com