Vettel: Ferrari must prove itself again in final races
Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari must prove itself in the remaining races of the 2018 Formula 1 season, foll🐻owing a series of disappointing results.
A disastrous weekend in Japan 🐲all but ended Ferrari’s and Vettel’s championship hopes despite appearing to hold the advantage over rivals Mercedes for much of the campaign.
But a series of driver and team errors have enabled Lewis Hamilton꧒ to capitalise and record six wins from the last seven races, meaning he could claim a fifth world title at the next race in the United States in less than two weeks’ time.
Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari must prove itself in the remaining races of 🐲the 2018 Formu🦹la 1 season, following a series of disappointing results.
A disastrous weekend in Japan all but ended Ferrari𓆏’s and Vettel’s championship hopes despite appearing to hold the advantage ov❀er rivals Mercedes for much of the campaign.
But a series of driver and team errors have enabled Lewis Hamilton to capital൩ise and record six wins from th⭕e last seven races, meaning he could claim a fifth world title at the next race in the United States in less than two weeks’ time.
A tyre blunder from Ferrari in qualifying resulted in Vettel starting Sunday’ꦯs race from eighth on the Suzuka grid, before he clashed with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and ended up finishing a distant sixth.
"I think 🐼we have great potential in this team," Vettel insisted.
"Obviously the last weeks have been tough for𒊎 us. Overall though I think we could be in a better pla💎ce. We are not. So that happened for a reason.
"But we look forward, and even if the last ♏weeks have been difficult, the spirit inside the team, if you look at the guys and so on, it is inc🍨redible how powerful they are, how strong they are, how positive they are throughout.
"That made this team always very strong and will make this team strong✱ in the next race and in the future. We know that we still have a lot of potential to unleash and we need to work and dig a little bit deeper and so oꦍn.
"But f🥂or now obviously, weꦑ want to prove the last races are not what we can deliver.”
Meanwhile Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene - who reacted furiously to the Scuderia’s qualifying mistake in Japan - has called on his squad to “challenge the impossible” with its title hop♌es seemingly hanging by a thread.
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