Video: Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc and Mattia Binotto discuss the 2020 Ferrari on an Italian talk show
Translation:
Host: We can’t say anything about the car, can we? Have you tried it already Sebastian? You had a chance to get in it?
Seb: No, not yet
Host: No one will believe that…
Seb: We start on…tuesday
Host: But you did have to get in it didn’t you?
Seb: Yeah, just to…….try the seat, seatbelt…
Host: Ok let’s start with that. How is it? Comfortable?
Seb: Yeah, yeah
(audience laughs)
Host: Well I mean I can’t know anything
Seb: Yeah it has to be comfortable
Host: Leather?
Seb: It’s red
Host: Red, of course it is
(audience claps)
Seb: It’s quick too, isn’t it? (talking to Mattia)
Host: Quick, how can it be quick? You haven’t even tried it
Seb: Well we hope
(audience laughs)
Host: Charles have you tried it?
Charles: Yeah I also tried the driving position…but I’d like to clarify something: the seat, Seb, is actually black. On mine it’s black. Maybe they changed it for yours and it’s red. Now I’ll also ask to have it red. But yeah the driving position is great.
Host: (speaking to the audience). No, no. There’s a lady in the audience asking…No, there’s no stereo in racing cars.
(Charles laughs)
Host: A curiosity, how do you turn on an F1 car?
Binotto: Let’s ask them
Host: Because you don’t know!?
Host: Charles how do you turn on an F1 car? I’ve never seen keys, keychain…How do you turn it o- the “vroom vroom”, how?
(Seb starts speaking English)
Seb: There was the famous finger that we would show and it would be the mechanics who turned the car on. Now that it became hybrid obviously we have an on-board battery and we can simply press a button on the steering wheel and it turns on. We don’t have a key unfortunately, we don’t need it. But yeah everything has to be well connected.
Host: So. Charles it’s a pity you’re not here, but, people now I’m going to do something I’ve dreamed of my whole life.
(Host pulls out steering wheel)
Host: Look at what they brought us to see.
(audience claps)
Host: Is this yours?
Seb: No I think it’s Charles’
Host: Charles this is yours right?
Charles: Well now- if you zoom in- Ah yes, that’s mine.
Charles: It’s quite complex, there are many things. We use it while driving for different things. It’s very important in qualifying because we can change many setups to adapt the car’s behavior to our driving.
Host: Sorry, Charles, since you said “It’s mine”, how does it differ from his?
Seb: Because he has all the buttons and whatnot for the car stereo, he does have it!
(audience claps)
Host: I mean, for me the PlayStation is complicated. For real, how can you [manage the steering wheel] while going at that speed?
Seb: Well you take it like this, and then you turn. Like that, and like that (while turning the steering wheel)
(audience laughs)
Host: No, you know what- If I’m looking down here, I mean it’s complicated, you get distracted.
Seb: No, you need to look at the road not at the wheel
Host: By the way, I don’t know if you can zoom in, but there is the word “radio” in there. I don’t know if it refers to the car stereo (called “autoradio” in Italian)
Seb: Yeah it’s because Charles has it. Charles listens to it.
Host: What a beauty. Think about it, it would take 15 years just to understand the “instructions”.
Host speaking to Mattia: I’m gonna leave it here, can I?
Binotto: Yes yes
Host: Are you worried I’m gonna “hurt” it? (should be “damage” but he literally uses the word “hurt” like it was a person)
Host: I’m gonna leave it here like this, don’t worry.
Host: I saw you doing…(referring to Mattia’s supposed weird reaction when the host was putting the steering wheel on the table)
Mattia: It’s because I know how much it costs you know?
(audience claps)
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