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Vettel doesn't expect there to be "anything wrong" with Leclerc

17:04, 13 Dec 2018

byBobby Vincent

Sebastian Vettel has said he does not expect there to be "anything wrong on-track" with his new Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc in 2019.

Vettel has spent the last four seasons with Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari - with the pair really getting along off-the-track, as well as on it.

However, Ferrari have decided to replace Raikkonen with Leclerc; with the pair making a straight-swap, with the former moving to Sauber.

With the arrival of Leclerc next season, it will surely present a new challenge to the German driver, but he doesn't believe there will be "anything wrong" with the new Scuderia talent.

"I don't know Charles so much yet, he doesn't know me," Vettel told Autosport. "We know each other (to some degree), he's a good kid, so I don't expect that there's anything wrong on-track.

"We will be rivals as much as Kimi and myself have been rivals. "You will try to get first and if you do that you beat everybody else, also your team-mate. We will see, we also know we want to bring Ferrari back to winning ways.

"For him it's a different point in his career compared to mine. I think time will tell, but from what I know now and how much I know him now, he seems like a good guy."