Sebastian Vettel’s Canadian GP Qualifying Disaster Highlights Flaw of F1 Engines

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Published: June 6, 2015

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The qualifying session for this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix was always going to be one of the most important for some time for Sebastian Vettel.

The German's Ferrari team had managed to match and even better Mercedes, the reigning world champions, in racing conditions in the 2015 Formula One season, but in the opening six races, they had struggled to match the Silver Arrows' in terms of one-lap pace, with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg sharing pole position.

Only twice, in the wet in Malaysia and under the lights in Bahrain, had Vettel managed to split the Mercedes pair in qualifying as Hamilton and Rosberg have consistently put Ferrari in their place: third place, better than the rest yet not quite fast enough to challenge, or be, the best.



Yet it felt as though that was going to change at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a venue where straight-line speed is imperative, as the Prancing Horse became one of two manufacturers to spend the mysterious currency that is engine tokens in a bid to further improve their power unit.

As reported by F1 journalist Adam Cooper's personal blog, the Italian team spent three of their seven remaining tokens ahead of the Montreal event in what Vettel told the official Formula One website was an "aggressive" bid to close the gap to Mercedes and, with the German 28 points behind Hamilton in the championship, inject renewed energy into a title assault that was just beginning to lose its momentum.

It was with much anticipation, therefore, that one watched Ferrari make progress with their revised engine in Canada.



Vettel, for his part, appeared pleased with the plug-in-and-play updates to the internal combustion engine following Friday practice, telling Sky Sports' William Esler how "there was no easing in, we went flat out straight away" and "everything seemed to be working as expected."

As he ventured out for his first run ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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