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Vettel shares blame for Ferrari tyre gaffe
Sebastian Vettel has revealed he agreed with the decision to start Q3 on intermediates before finishing a lowly P9 in Japan qualifying. Ferrari continue to find new ways to mess up and, in Suzuka, their qualifying started to unravel when both drivers headed out on a dry track with the intermediates on. That forced Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen to come back into the pits for slicks, leaving them out of sync in the battle for pole position. The poor planning could have still been rescued, but a further mistake by Vettel on his first hot lap made Ferrari's problems even worse as the rain did eventually arrive. The unpredictable weather conditions meant that Vettel is bogged down on the fifth row...
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