Revised Expectations for Ferrari Going into 2nd Half of 2016 Formula 1 Season

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Published: August 16, 2016

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After kissing the kerb of Turn 17 for the 66th time in the German Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel lifted his right foot from the floor and coasted toward the Hockenheim finish line.

As a lapped Renault disappeared into the distance, the four-time world champion took Formula One's tiresome debate surrounding track limits to a whole new level by ignoring the apex of Turn 1 and taking to the run-off area to pick up fragments of discarded rubber.

At the end of another long, hard and forgettable race, Vettel's Prancing Horse was rolling around the tyre marbles with all the giddiness of a pig in you-know-what when something strange happened.

With the now-familiar grumble of a Ferrari V6 turbo engine at full power, the Haas VF-16 of Romain Grosjean flashed by and along the short straight toward Turn 2.



Then, barely a second later, another car—this time Carlos Sainz Jr.'s Toro Rosso—appeared from behind Vettel's right shoulder, retook the racing line and continued his pursuit of Grosjean and 13th place.

It was at that point, as Vettel rejoined the track and checked his mirrors for any more fast-approaching boy racers, that the realisation finally hit him: There was still one more lap to go.

When footage of that incident, which according to the official F1 website cost him "around 14 seconds" but thankfully no positions, emerged four days after the race—all 67 laps of it—it was welcomed as an instant-classic blunder and used as evidence to prove racing drivers are indeed human after all.

But behind all the light-hearted comments and suggestions that Vettel simply couldn't wait to start his summer holidays and spend some much-needed time out of the Scuderia pressure cooker, there was a quite alarming truth.



Even a driver as professional, diligent and attentive as Vettel is not immune to the madness th...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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