Vettel’s Mexican nightmare - the 4 moments he’ll want to forget
It’s not often that Sebastian Vettel ends a race in the barriers - in
fact, prior to Mexico he hadn’t crashed out of a Grand Prix since 2010.
So what went wrong at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez? Almost
everything, as it turns out…
After qualifying third on the grid, Vettel had declared polesitter Nico
Rosberg - his rival for P2 in the drivers’ championship - his 'primary
target' in Sunday afternoon’s race. But sadly for the Ferrari star, any
realistic hope of challenging his countryman was extinguished barely
900m into the race when, having already lost a place to Daniil Kvyat, he
tangled with former team mate Daniel Ricciardo going into the first
corner. “Seb deserved that, he gave me no room at all,” declared the Red
Bull driver shortly afterwards, though the stewards, having had the
benefit of several replays, were less keen to apportion blame. “The race
was pretty much lost at that time,” said Vettel, who picked up a
right-rear puncture in the incident. “After the contact with Daniel I
was very angry, but in the end I think no one is to blame. He clearly
could not avoid hitting me, being too fast for the line he had chosen,
but these things happen. That’s racing, even if of course it’s painful
if it happens in the first corner and you have to drive all the way back
[to the pits].”
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