News Details

Sebastian Vettel labels Mercedes 'the favourite' after practice showing

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel has labelled Mercedes as “the favourite” at the Red Bull Ring, following the conclusion of Friday’s practice sessions. Vettel’s title rival Lewis Hamilton led the way during both 90-minute sessions, winding up 0.147s faster than the German during the afternoon running. Vettel believes Ferrari will be closer over one-lap than at the previous event in Azerbaijan, where the team trailed Hamilton by over a second, but acknowledged the speed of the W08s. “Baku I think was a one-off in many ways; the qualifying wasn’t good, positioning wasn’t too bad, the gap was too big, we didn’t feel as comfortable as we...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Lewis Hamilton: Important to clear brake test...

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton says he was eager for Ferrari driver...
7y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Romain Grosjean hoping changes lead to brake...

Haas Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean is hoping various changes for this...
7y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Mercedes: Vettel/Hamilton Baku incident now a...

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says the incident between Sebastian Vettel and...
7y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Mercedes, Ferrari split on Silverstone tyre selections

Championship rivals Mercedes and Ferrari have taken differing approaches...
7y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Barcelona to remain on MotoGP calendar until 2031

The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has signed a new deal with Dorna to...
19h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Marc Marquez tops final MotoGP pre-season test at...

Marc Marquez finished the final day of the Buriram MotoGP pre-season test...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Doug Boles named IndyCar President in leadership...

The NTT IndyCar Series announced on Tuesday morning that longtime...

Andretti Global shows off new liveries for 2025...

Andretti Global has revealed a trio of new liveries for the team’s cars...

Power sets goal of five move competitive years in...

Will Power is one of the NTT IndyCar Series’ longest tenured drivers,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Elfyn Evans leads Rally Sweden after Umeå sprint

In spite of running first on the road, Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin took...
15h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Mikel Arteta reveals the 'very unexpected' training...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has spoken in more detail about how Kai...
49m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Club trying to remove Arsenal transfer target's £75m...

Inter Milan are reportedly working to tie star striker Marcus Thuram down...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.