He held the upper hand in qualifying, though perhaps not as decisively as he would have wished, beating Stroll 13-8 with three Q1 eliminations to his team mate’s seven. He added more points with ninth in France.Īfter this early turning point, Vettel’s Aston Martin was the one you expected to produce a result if one was on offer. That earned him a superb, opportunistic second place on a day the championship contenders hit trouble. Opportunistic second in Azerbaijan was season’s highlightBetter things came in Azerbaijan where he picked up a couple of places in the race then made his way past Gasly and Leclerc after a restart. This was more like the Vettel of his Red Bull years.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free
In Monaco he reached Q3, jumped ahead of Lewis Hamilton (no less) by running long at his first pit stop, and got his elbows out to keep Pierre Gasly behind as he left the pits. Matters improved as he played himself in at the wheel of the AMR21, a car which proved a disappointing step backwards from one of the most impressive teams of last season. In Spain he followed Kimi Raikkonen’s Alfa Romeo home. Car trouble spoiled his next race at Imola, and although he reached Q3 in Portugal he slipped back during the race. In Bahrain he collected penalty for yellow flag errors in qualifying and a woeful clash with Esteban Ocon in the race. However Vettel’s start to the season looked alarmingly like a continuation of the Ferrari days.
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Having been well and truly seen off by Charles Leclerc in 2020, Vettel had to assert himself over his latest team mate Lance Stroll – a driver who is not widely regarded as a potential future champion in the same way Leclerc is.
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