Vettel didn’t expect P2 after “queuing the whole race” in Monaco
Sebastian Vettel was pleased to make the most of mistakes from Ferrari’s rivals to fini▨sh second in Formul♚a 1’s Monaco Grand Prix.
Vettel started fourth but finished s♒econd after taking advantage of a pitlane collision between Max Versta🥀ppen and Valtteri Bottas.
The German jumped💞 Bottas when the Mercedes driver was forced into a second stop due to a puncture following the collision, while Verstappen received a five-second time penalty that dropped him from second on the road to fourth.
Sebastian Vettel was pleased to make the most of mistakes from Ferrari’s rivals 🐻to finish second in Formula 1’s Mon🧸aco Grand Prix.
Vettel started fourth but finished second after♛ taking advantage of a pitlane collision between Max Verstappe꧂n and Valtteri Bottas.
The German jumped Bottas when the Mercedes driver was forced into a second stop due to a💞 puncture following the collision, while Verstappen received a five-second time penalty that dropped him from second on the road to fourth.
“Certainly we didn’t quite expect it but the way the race went�🍬� we were able to benefit from the mistakes people made,” Vettel said.
“Obviously Valtteri got squeezed into the pitlane and goꦐt a puncture so we were able to get that position and with the penalty that Max had it was about staying with them.
“Antonio Giovinazzi didn’t ♏quite know whether to let me go an💧d I lost like two, two and a half seconds, so I was queuing the whole race with the Mercedes’ struggling.
“Then suddenly I lose three seconds, and obviously the target was to stay within the five seconds [to Max Verstappen] but it wasn’t a probl☂em in the end.”
Despite claiming Ferrari’s best result of the 2019 seaso🌟n so far, Vettel admits his team cannot be completely satisfied with the overall result from what proved to be a difficult weekend in Monaco for the Scuderia, with teammate Charles Leclerc retiring after being eliminated from Q1 during qualifying.
“A good result but not 𒁃a good we♕ekend for us,” Vettel explained.
“We lost one car yesterday in Q1 and I’m n🦋ot sure what happened with Charles today but it’s always difficult when you start further back.
“Not the luckiest race for us as a team but the pace wasn’t there and we kind of fumbled i🅷nto second place.
“So we did everything we could but certain🔯ly we didn’t have enough pace to put the pressure on to try and g🎀o for the win.
“We tried to stay in range,” he added. “I wanted to put some more pressu🐻re on, I just struggled with my tyres, not as badly as Lewis and Max's, but mine were just not getting h♉ot.
“It was a bit tricky but a great result and we have a lot of work to do - 🐠we are not quick enou🐼gh compared to these guys.”
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