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Vettel: A couple of seagulls wanted to commit suicide

Sebastian Vettel offered one of Formula One's more exotic excuses on Sunday by saying he had lost time in the Canadian Grand Prix by saving two seagulls from being flattened by his Ferrari. 'I think it was a couple that wanted to commit suicide,' the German said with a smile after finishing second to Mercedes' world champion Lewis Hamilton at a chilly Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. 'They were at the apex of turn one. Lewis obviously didn't care so he made up quite a bit of time, about half a second, but I didn't do that couple that favour to say goodbye for good,' the four times Formula One world champion told reporters. 'By the time Lewis came around, they just flew off. Wasn't fair. I brake...
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