News Details

Sebastian Vettel admits he was 'too close' at Belgian GP restart

Sebastian Vettel has admitted he was “too close” to race leader Lewis Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix restart, missing out on a chance to take the lead. The Ferrari driver tried to challenge for first place at the race start, but did not have enough straightline speed to make a move on the back straight. He kept Hamilton in his sights and while the gap increased and decreased with each lap, he was unable to get close enough to overtake. The safety car brought Vettel back into the fight and he moved onto the ultra-soft tyres for the restart, while Hamilton changed to softs at his second pitstop. But Vettel got too close to Hamilton and had to back out, which gave the Mercedes...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Vettel got 'too close' to Hamilton at restart

– Sebastian Vettel regretted his tactics as the Belgian Grand Prix...
8y ago from GPUpdate.net

Lewis Hamilton: Ferrari had 'better pace' during...

Lewis Hamilton believes Ferrari held the upper hand in race trim at the...
8y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Ricciardo: Good to capitalise on safety car restart

Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo says it was “good”...
8y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Belgian GP: Hamilton keeps Vettel at bay to win

Lewis Hamilton defeated Formula 1 title rival Sebastian Vettel in the...
8y ago from Motorsport.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Long Beach to bring in new leadership for iconic event

Organizers of the annual Grand Prix of Long Beach event have announced...

Pato O’Ward joined by F2 champion in McLaren F1...

McLaren has announced its driver development program lineup for 2026,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Mikel Arteta gives intriguing response to question...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has spoken out on the reported addition...
5h ago from CaughtOffside.com

White Unlikely To Depart But Will Arsenal Strengthen...

With us now a few weeks into the New Year, the January transfer window has...
8h ago from FreshArsenal.com

Here we go: Arsenal & Liverpool transfer target...

Manchester City reportedly look to be closing in on the £20m transfer of...
13h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.