Vettel is concerned: "It will be a mess"
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- GPblog.com
Sebastian Vettel is afraid of many incidents during qualifying. According to the Ferrari driver, the high speed difference between cars in a flying lap and an outlap can cause dangerous situations on the short circuit.
Large differences in speed
"The whole track is short, obviously, and there will be the same amount of cars, so I guess Q1 will be very tight. The other thing that doesn’t help is we have to go really slow in the cool laps to bring the tyres down [in temperature]. That’s probably the worst factor," Vettel is quoted by RaceFans.net.
Vettel hopes that nothing bad will happen in qualifying. During the qualification of the Formula 2 races things already went wrong. "One thing is looking for traffic, the other one is having such a big speed deltas. So it will be a mess," says the German.
Opportunities in qualifying
Vettel sees the opportunities for Ferrari as fairly positive. He himself has not been in Q3 for some time, but he hopes to change that on Saturday. "I think in Q1 it should be fine to make it through to Q2. And then Q3, I think could be possible, maybe it’s a little bit better than last week."