Vettel ‘couldn’t do anything’ to avoid Turn 3 F1 test crash
Sebastian Vettel says he was a passengerꩵ and “was not in control anymore” in his crash during Formula 1 pre-🦩season testing in Barcelona.
The German suffered a mechanical failure and was sent straight into the barriers at the long right-hander of Turn 3 on the second morning of the second and final🐼 winter test ahead of the new season.
Sebastian Vettel says he was a passenger and “was not in control anymore” in his crash during Formula 1 pre-season testing in B🔯arcelona.
The German suffered a mechanical failure and was sent straight into the barriers at the lonꦿ💃g right-hander of Turn 3 on the second morning of the second and final winter test ahead of the new season.
Vettel emerged unscathed from the accident and visited the medical centre as a precaution, while his SF90 Ferrari F1 car was left heavily damaged by the impact. The four-time world champion insisted the Italian team is working “flat-out” t✤o understand exactly what caused the problem.
“I was going into 🍸Turn 3 and I had a feeling there was an issue with the front-left corner and then from there it wasn’t anything that I could have done to avoid the impact,” Vettel explained.
“Aft😼er that I wasn’ꦕt in control anymore and went straight into the barriers.
“We are flat-out trying to understand, it woul꧟d be a lot easier if there was a lot of run-off and the car didn’t hit anything because now due to the hit it’s fairly damaged.
“We have to be very caref♍ul in understanding exactly what is the problem. That is what everyone is looking at here at the track and also in Maranello. It’s ༒important to us.”
The issue rest♈ricted Vettel to just 40 laps in the morning and has proved a set-back to Ferrari’s run plan for the afternoon, with the team not expecting to get back out oไn track for at least a “few hours”.
Asked how costly he thinks the crash is, Vettel replied: “Well we covered a lot of mileage last week but surely the plan is always to ful🔥fil your programme.
“We had more laps on the board than💃 40 this morning so for sure it is not ideal in that we are losing time. But right now it is important to understand what happened.
“I hit the wall quite strongly and I think the Te꧑cpro and the wall did their job and the car did its job but of cour🐎se after the impact the car was very damaged.
“That’s what alsoಞ makes it quite difficult to reconstruct♚ what was going on before the impact.”
Charles Leclerc was due to takeover from Vettel to conduct Ferrariꦜ’s running this ꦆafternoon.
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