Sebastian Vettel’s Error-Strewn Bahrain GP Display a Positive Sign for Ferrari

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Published: April 24, 2015

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Sebastian Vettel had that familiar glint in his eye after qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Seven days after finishing 0.9 seconds adrift of Lewis Hamilton's pole time on the Saturday of the Chinese GP, as per the official Formula One website, the German had managed to split the Mercedes cars, punting Nico Rosberg down to third.

Vettel had once again extracted the most out of Ferrari's F15-T and, perhaps for the first time since late-2013, was entering a race as the man to beat.



An abrasive track surface—Pirelli's race preview revealed the Bahrain International Circuit has "the highest degree of asphalt roughness seen all year"—and warm, if cooling, conditions were set to create a highly strategic race, the type of event that saw Ferrari record their first victory in almost two years in Malaysia.

Starting second on the grid, a position Hamilton utilised to snatch the lead at the first corner of the 2014 event, the odds were in very much in Vettel's favour.

It was, to all intents and purposes, his race to lose.



Lose it, however, he did. In truth, Vettel never appeared to be in contention for victory from the moment those five red lights beamed above the start line.

The very trait that allowed him to produce that superb qualifying lap 24 hours earlier, his high-input driving style, was what counted against Vettel in the race, according to Sky Sports' Mark Hughes. He was unable to conserve his tyres as effectively as team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.



Indeed, soon after Vettel's first error of the evening on Lap 8—running wide at Turn 1, which let Rosberg close up to and overtake his compatriot the following lap—Raikkonen radioed the team to explain how the German was already holding him up, as per the FIA television feed.

Further mistakes followed, the last of which required a trip to...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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