Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, Red Bull Ring, 2020

Vettel: Improved Ferrari felt “like a different car”

2020 Styrian Grand Prix

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Sebastian Vettel enthused about the handling changes to his Ferrari despite ending second practice in 16th place.

Ferrari brought forward an upgrade package for this weekend. Vettel, who struggled to 10th place in the season-opening race last weekend, said he felt the balance of his car was considerably better today.

“It’s a lot better than last week,” he said. “If you look at the timing sheet, obviously I got the lap deleted and it was not a great day for lap times. But I think some people anticipated maybe rain tomorrow and just prepared in case this is the quali[fying] for Sunday.

“But I think on our side the main thing was to look after the upgrade that we brought. So step by step we were putting stuff on and it seems to be positive. I think we still need to have a look and now find the best window where the car is happiest.

“We tried some stuff, the usual homework, I tried a lot of stuff on the brakes and I still need to get into a better rhythm after especially after last weekend. But I felt a lot better already today.”

Vettel found his car handled progressively worse throughout last weekend, but was encouraged by his high fuel runs in practice as well.

“It felt much better. All day it was straight away a different car. And then I was just able to get at it. It’s not really possible to compare the two because there was such a big difference. Obviously now I hope it stays like this.”

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One comment on “Vettel: Improved Ferrari felt “like a different car””

  1. Hmm…pu lacking then? Sure hard to notice a better handling Ferrari from those lap times. Shall be interesting to see then.

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