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Sebastian Vettel is looking forward to the start of the season. © APA / afp / WILLIAM WEST
Sebastian Vettel expects short intervals at the Formula 1 World Championship start in Spielberg in the next two weeks.
27. June 2020
Two races on consecutive weekends in the same place are also new for him. “I think the perfection will be even higher,” said the four-time world champion in a video interview with his team Ferrari.
This particularly affects the second race. There you have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes made at the start and react particularly in the area of strategy. Vettel: “It will be important to take the experience from the first weekend with you into the second and to improve yourself.”
The World Cup season begins three and a half months late due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Austrian Grand Prix on July 5th will be followed on July 12th in Spielberg by the Styrian Grand Prix. “Austria is, I think, a great track,” said Vettel, who has never won at the Red Bull Ring. “It definitely has everything it needs.”
Vettel: “Ghost race funny”
Vettel starts his last season as a Ferrari driver in Styria. On Friday he celebrates his 33rd birthday there, his future beyond the end of the contract is still open. With his young teammate Charles Leclerc, he stepped on the gas in a 2018 car in Mugello this week to get his rhythm back.
“First of all, I’m happy that it starts again. After such a long forced break it is good for everyone, ”emphasized Vettel – even if it would be“ strange ”and“ not the same ”without a spectator on the track. The eight European races previously fixed in the emergency calendar are all planned as ghost races.
One week after the second Spielberg race, things continue in Hungary. After that, a double event (2nd and 9th August) is also planned in Silverstone. Barcelona (August 16) immediately followed. “So many races in such a short time will be exhausting,” said Vettel. “But I think I’m prepared. I used my time well to be fit. “
Author: apa / dl
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