PODIUM
A
ustralian Grand Prix podium interviews conducted
by Mark Webber and featuring top three: race
winner Sebastian Vettel, runner-up Lewis Hamilton
and third placed Valtteri Bottas
Sebastian, all those thousands and thousands of hours of
work from the whole team over winter testing, you guys
have shown the form early in the season, massive victory,
how do you feel?
Sebastian Vettel: Unbelievable. Thank you everyone,
it was a fantastic grand prix. It was quite, in a positive
way, when I was coming back to the pits and there were
people running on track going wild with Ferrari flags. It was
unbelievable. Thanks for the support. Like you said, it was
what we needed. The whole team has been working really,
really hard. The guys didn’t get much sleep here and back
in the factory. The car is really behaving well, incredible to
drive, a beautiful day. Thank you.
We’ll move across to second place. Lewis Hamilton, who
did everything right, he did everything right. Come on,
Australia. Absolutely world class is Lewis. On pole position,
phenomenal start, mate. And for me, I think the strategy
didn’t quite work out for you. Did you have to pit? Why
was it so early? And obviously for you then to get the race
victory back off Sebastian was going to be very difficult
from then onwards.
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, definitely. Firstly, a big
congratulations to Ferrari and to Sebastian, they did an
amazing job this weekend. It’s been a great weekend for
us and the team, but just in the race, I struggled with the
tyres at the end. I had to pit a lot earlier than these guys
because I just ran out of grip. Pitted and I got stuck behind
one of the Red Bulls and sometimes that’s just the way
it goes. But overall, a great race and good points for the
team and I mean look at this crowd. Thank you for coming
out and it’s always such a great place for us to be.