sebastian vettel, p3, during the post-race press conference, spain - may 9, 2010
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Interviewer: "Sebastian, is there anything that /didn't/ happen to you today? Unscheduled pitstop, brake problems, and what about that incident with Lewis Hamilton around the first pitstops?"
Seb: "Well, a lot of things went wrong today. Start was okay. There was no chance to get past Mark and also was not worth taking the risk, because obviously it was quite slippery down the inside where he was, so I didn't want to take a run on the outside. And then, yeah, was not quick enough. I struggled a lot with the balance of the car. So we see the car is quick-Mark was in his own league today-but for some reason I struggled, and then a lot of problems.
I think we came in too early. Probably expected Lewis to come in the same lap and it turned out not to be that way. The primes, or the hard tires, were a bit diffcult to switch on, so we couldn't do the undercut and get him on the strategy side. Also we were a bit unlucky because we had to wait in the pit box a long time for the Ferrari to drive past, and then Jenson was coming in, so yeah, it was probably a nine seconds or [laughs] or felt like a nine second pitstop. So we lost a lot of ground and therefore lost the position. It was very close when Lewis came out, but there was no way, so, to avoid the contact I went wide, and after that obviously impossible to pass.
I felt the car was getting a bit better, but obviously as soon as you get closer, no chance to pass as you lose the grip, then I think fifteen laps to the end I lost the brakes. I think the front left brakes said bye-bye, and then the last ten laps I just, yeah, was lucky because there was so much gaps to the back, to Michael, and was able to bring the car home.
I don't know, really, how to feel because third is not a bad position, but I think we had a horrible or [laughs] quite bad race today, with a lot of things happening we didn't want to, so it's good to take some points but, again, we need to work and keep pushing. Obviously the car is fast, but you need to be able to use that every single time. Obviously it's a fifty percent chance of getting through. Mark had a race I think without any problems, but for me it was the other way around, so difficult."
