Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari had a day to forget in the Mexican Grand Prix as the team suffered their first double retirement since the 2006 Australian Grand Prix.
Team principal Maurizio Arrivabene mused, "Over the course of this season we had already managed to touch the sky. This time we reached the bottom. But today’s race was a lesson of humility that we must put to good use and that will further bind the team together and strengthen the character of everybody."
"We are not blaming anybody: we are a team, we win and lose together. I regret the result as we had a really good pace in the race, but that’s racing, you can always have a bad day," added the Italian team boss.
Kimi Raikkonen retired after a collision with Finnish compatriot Valtteri Bottas of Williams while Vettel had an incident-packed race before crashing out on lap 50, having survived a first lap collision with Australian Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull.
"I had a bad start," said the former four-time world champion. "These things happen –- it's racing. The race was pretty much lost. I tried to come back, but two mistakes did not help.
"The last mistake was my own fault, so I'm not proud of it. We were very close to Mercedes in terms of pace, as close as we have been for a while. We were forcing it."
Asked about his incident with Ricciardo, he added: "Turn one, start of the race? He was closing the door, but he was not next to me, but it was too late and I had a bad feeling into turn two and three."
"This kind of stuff, you can't do it on purpose, so I'm not blaming him, but obviously it is a pain when someone hits you in turn one."
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