Four-time F1 world champion, Sebastian Vettel insists that Ferrari has not lost direction despite their faltering title bid since the summer break.
Ferrari’s development of their 2018 car has seemingly stalled ever since, with Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton winning successive races and pulling forward in the Constructors’ Championship and the Drivers’ Championship respectively.
Sebastian Vettel is now 50 points behind Lewis Hamilton in the title fight and has won only two of the last nine races.
Ahead of this weekend’s Japanese GP, Vettel looked relaxed and cheerful as he dismissed suggestions of Ferrari losing the plot: “We haven’t lost direction,” said Vettel. “We have made progress, the steps that were planned were the steps that came.
Maybe they have made bigger or smaller steps. But we are where we wanted to be.
Against people’s opinion, we haven’t had a dominant car this year.
At too many races, we haven’t been close enough.” Ferrari drivers, Vettel, Raikkonen and Ferrari team boss, Maurizio Arrivabene were seen engaging in deep discussions just as they arrived at Suzuka.
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