When everything was no longer the same as before
There are times when a driver's career in F1 can change almost permanently, for better or for worse. Very often this happens due to a banal mistake, which unfortunately can have rather serious consequences especially on the physical condition of the driver, but in other cases also on his state of mind and his well-being within a team. One of the most recent cases was the one he saw as the protagonist Sebastian Vettel in 2018the German's fourth season with the Ferrari.
The run off the track in Germany
In its Hockenheim, the four-time world champion went off the track and crashed into the barriers while he was leading the race. An accident which, at least judging by the impact, was anything but serious, but very heavy on the fate of that world championship and on Vettel's adventure in Maranello. To tell that episode, in an interview reported by speedweek.comwas Modesto Menabueformer engine engineer of Red who worked for the 'Cavallino rampante' from 1978 to 2019.
The mistake and the tension of the challenge
The driver from Modena retraced what happened that day in Germany, considering the accident to be a mistake by Vettel, as well as highlighting a difficulty on the part of the former Red Bull in withstanding the pressure of Lewis Hamiltonfighting with him for the title: “The car was superior, but I think the his concentration has waned – he recalled – the engineer had told him over the radio not to push, but eventually he pushed anyway and came out. Another World Cup thrown away. I think that suffered under Hamilton's pressureunlike Verstappen, as the latter demonstrated in 2021.”
The slow exit from the scene
In addition, in 2019Ferrari welcomed into the team Charles Leclercwith the arrival of the Monegasque who put Vettel in difficulty: “After 2018, Vettel he felt marginalized – he added – the team was counting on Charles, and Maurizio Arrivabene, who was his supporter, had left. I think the team work did not work well as would have been necessary to help Sebastian“.
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