Both Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel say there is more to come from Ferrari after Friday practice. Rosberg incurred a 10-second penalty on his race time, but lost only three points by falling to third place behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and not the 15 he would have lost had he made a pit stop to investigate, or else retired. “And I’m not sure whether he likes Sergio Marchionne’s pressure”.
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“Today I think we lost a bit of time in the beginning”, said Vettel.
At Silverstone, the German driver was stripped of his second plan when stewards discovered that his Mercedes team had breached the limits of providing drivers with information to increase their performance. “I know from personal experience that he has to feel good in order to perform well”. I think we are going in the right direction.
“I looked at the race after and I thought as a spectator it was quite entertaining to hear a driver a little bit panicking on the radio and the team panicking at the same time”.
Hamilton suffered because of the radio ban in Baku when his auto was in the wrong engine mode, but he said he “would’ve lost just as much time” if he had come into the pits to solve it.
‘It was the element of the human being in a sport which is very complicated and technical’.
“I would say the summer break is when people start to think about next year more, but I don’t expect there is going to be any decision here until much later in the season”, Palmer added.
‘The last race was still the greatest week I have had, ‘ said Hamilton.
“As a Friday we made some improvements and for sure we can still improve but overall it wasn’t too bad”.
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‘I surf and sometimes you have to wait for the wave to come, but catching it is the greatest feeling. Indeed after just his first two races it was reported that Palmer could be replaced by Renault’s French reserve driver Esteban Ocon before the end of the season. It doesn’t take away the spicy things they want in racing, that you can not be told that you have a problem.
