Sebastian Vettel vai sair da 11º posição para o Grande Prémio do Bahrein. Apesar de se ter ficado pela Q2, o alemão acha que o Ferrari tinha ritmo para chegar até à Q3, mas a bandeira vermelha provocada por Carlos Sainz deu-lhe apenas tempo para uma tentativa, prejudicando a performance na qualificação.
Ao f1.com, Vettel afirmou: “Fazer apenas uma tentativa não é o ideal e esse foi o caso na Q2. Podíamos ter estado entre os dez primeiros em vez de estar na sexta fila da grelha. É desapontante porque esperávamos lutar pelo meio do pelotão este fim de semana
“Being able to do just a single lap is never ideal and that was clearly the case in Q2 today. We missed the cut to the next stage by a little over a tenth, but on my only quick lap, I first had George Russell ahead of me, which stopped me getting a tow from Charles, and then I didn’t manage to have a perfect second sector. That just adds to the disappointment because even if we expected to be in the midfield here, we could just as easily have been in the top ten rather than on the sixth row.
“All the same, I am confident that the team can still bring home a good amount of points tomorrow. Because of the track characteristics, the race will be mainly about tyre management and I think that we can do something good on that score. We will have to be as sly as a fox, be patient and make no mistakes.”
