“We used a new very aggressive setup”- Sebastian Vettel on what caused his spin on Friday

Tanish Chachra | 05/12/2020
"We used a new very aggressive setup"- Sebastian Vettel on what caused his spin on Friday

“We used a new, very aggressive setup”- Sebastian Vettel on what caused an unexpected spin on his car in the session on Friday.

Sebastian Vettel gave a scary sight to Kevin Magnussen who witnessed the German driver spinning in front of him, but escaped crashing into him, because of the good presence of mind applied by Vettel.

Vettel, on the other hand, explained that a new experiment by Ferrari somewhere caused a spin, which was a bit aggressive and for what they weren’t ready beforehand.

“We used a new, very aggressive setup. We wanted to take more risk,” he explains to Motorsport-Total.com. “But I don’t think this was the right way to go. That’s why we need to prepare well for the rest of the weekend”.

“Then I think we were a little too cheeky and tried something that didn’t work.” he further said. But because of this, Vettel also thinks that he expects a great performance in the qualifying.

“If all goes well Q1 shouldn’t be such a problem. At the moment it is difficult to say if we have enough for Q3, also because it was such a crazy session. I think it will go better on Saturday,” said Vettel.

Sebastian Vettel at the twilight of his career with Ferrari

Vettel is announced to join Aston Martin for the 2021 season and will be replaced by McLaren’s Carlos Sainz after the end of the season. Vettel’s relationship with Ferrari was an iconic journey and he would be looking ahead to make the most out of his time with the team.

Ferrari meanwhile is looking a future with Charles Leclerc, who is expected to make a massive influence in the sport in the near future. It remains to be seen how the partnership between Sainz and Leclerc will fold.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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