Sebastian Vettel believes that the last two races before the summer break were not kind to Ferrari and, although the perception is they have dropped down the pecking order, he believes that those below par weekends gave the Italian team insight into their core problems.
Asked by F1i what was hampering the team's performance, Vettel replied somewhat cryptically, "I think it’s more of a general thing but I don’t want to go into too much detail, I know you’re very interested!"
"Some things do take a little bit of time but overall the most important is that we’re challenging ourselves and obviously it would have been nicer to find out a bit sooner, but that’s how it is."
"The main point is that we find out, we are always trying to improve, but the last races in this regard have been very educational to know potentially where our weaknesses compared to Red Bull and Mercedes."
Much has been said about the balance and set-up options of the Ferrari SF16-H, which is proving to be unpredictable in differing conditions.
Example being that Vettel is often at the sharp end of the timing screens in FP3, but a couple of hours later temperatures change for qualifying and he is suddenly off the pace.
"I think we’ve only been struggling, let’s say if we are talking about the set up, to find the right balance at the last two events," ventured the German.
"I think Hungary stood out and we were a little bit on the back foot but we made it by qualifying, so that was very good and by qualifying the car was at its best."
"Unfortunately we didn’t get the lap that we could have had and therefore not the result. [Germany] I think is a different story and I think we were struggling to find the right set up."
"We didn’t find it in qualifying at least with the conditions we had. That’s why, I guess, we are a little bit off compared to normal." admitted the triple four times F1 world champion.
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