Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel has described Ferrari’s qualifying showing at the Austrian Grand Prix as “a surprise” after he missed Q3 and team-mate Charles Leclerc barely made the cut. Vettel is set to start the first race of the season from 11th position while Leclerc could only improve to seventh in the final stanza of qualifying at almost a second slower than pole-sitting Mercedes driver, Valtteri Bottas. Ferrari underwhelmed during pre-season testing and, having opted to wait until it can introduce wholesale changes at Round 3 in Hungary, had played down its chances of a strong performance in the season-opener. Even then, Vettel did not expect it to be found so wanting at...
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