2017 CHINESE GRAND PRIX
But he suddenly appeared just eight seconds behind
you and closing you down at the end. You had to get
back on the gas.
LH: Yeah, exactly. We were matching times. I think if
there wasn’t safety cars and stuff it would have been
a lot closer.
Talking of that, congratulations Sebastian, a bit
unlucky really, you pitted under the virtual safety car
and there was a safety car straight after.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, my start was OK but then
I realized that the intermediates had quite a lot of
degradation. It was very dry in some parts of the
track so I knew they would not last. I was happy
to take the risk. Obviously virtual safety car you
save a bit of time in the pit stop. And then the
safety car came just when I was about to start to
feel that the dry tyre was a lot quicker, so I couldn’t
use the momentum, the advantage and I lost a lot
of positions. But then I had a very exciting race; I
really enjoyed it. I was stuck a little bit in the train
for a whole but then I finally made the move and
then, yeah, I tried to chase Lewis down as much as
possible but I had the feeling that every time I put a
lap in he was able to respond, so I think we were a
good match, it could have been a different race but a
good recovery and as I said, wheel-to-wheel racing…
I touched wheels with Daniel as well….
You took the paint off the side of his tyre!
SV: It was good fun at least.
GPI