Although Ferrari have yet to win a race, and despite a below par weekend in Monaco, Sebastian Vettel is adamant that there is no reason to throw in the towel just yet.
Speaking ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend the quadruple F1 world champion said, “We have some new parts, hope they will help us make a step forward.”
“I know that currently we’re not in the position we want to be in, but you never know: we will try at our best, fighting very hard, giving everything to win. I believe we can turn it around, I believe in the team.”
The team has an extensively revised aero package and an upgraded engine for the weekend in Canada, but Vettel played down the potential of these.
“It also depends on what other people are doing,” pointed out the German. “What other people are bringing.”
As for the Montreal Circuit situated on the Ile Notre-Dame Vettel said, “It’s a quick circuit, and I love it. The weather looks bad but I think everybody is on the same boat, it will be the same challenge for all of us. I’ve some expectations, then you need to wait and see what’s happening on the track.”
“We know that Canada it’s a tricky track because of its surface, usually it’s difficult to get the tires to work equally: the softer compound tires are quite tricky, it’s difficult to make them last in the race, so with cooler temperature usually you struggle a bit more overall so we’ll see. It could be interesting…” he predicted.
The track is named after Gilles Villeneuve one of Ferrari’s most revered drivers, which Vettel acknowledged, “I don’t remember that much about Gilles Villeneuve, for what I’ve heard he was quite a character.”
“He was Enzo Ferrari’s favorite, certainly his presence, to some extent, is still there in Maranello. It’s a shame that he died too young because I think he could have been World Champion a couple of times.”
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