The Ferrari Pilot Sebastian Vettel admits that he has against Lewis Hamilton had little Chance. Already on Sunday in Austin, the Mercedes driver can defend his world title in advance.
Confidence to make the impossible possible, sounds different. “It’s hard enough to spend the next four races in a perfect, ideal way all,” said Sebastian Vettel before the Grand Prix of the USA in Austin. “But even then, not everyone knows that it depends only on us.” Much more likely than the great catching up of the Ferrari drivers is that defending champion Lewis Hamilton closes already in the race on Sunday (20.10 hrs CEST, from 19.55 p.m. in the DW live Ticker for this) the bag. Wins, the Briton and his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas from Finland is Second, Hamilton would be in the subsequent three races of the season in Mexico city, Sao Paulo and Abu Dhabi, not from the top of the world Cup to displace standings. For Hamilton, it would be after 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017, the fifth world champion title. Thus, he would with the legendary Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio. “Crazy”, insane, the 33-Year-old the. Record-breaking world champion Michael Schumacher, with seven titles even more successful.
Hamilton: “It can happen”
He was not going to subside, said Hamilton before the race in Austin. “There are still 100 points. I know that we will continue as before. Up to the last checkered flag. That is our goal. I know from experience that a lot can happen.” So Hamilton played in the 2007 season, when he lost the title in the last two races in the Finn Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari. However, at the time, Hamilton was still a formula 1 newcomer. “Lewis has demonstrated with six Wins from the last seven races, what class he possesses,” said Mercedes head of Motorsport, Toto Wolff, about his star pilots: “He is both on track and off of a complete driver than ever before.”
The Dominator: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton stands in front of his fifth world title
Not fast enough
Out of the last seven races, Hamilton took 168 out of 175 possible points, and turned an Eight-point deficit to Vettel in the lead by 67 points. While the Mercedes-Pilot race for the race abspulte as reliable as a Swiss movement, made a mess of the four-time world champion Vettel repeatedly. And his Ferrari Team showed nerves. “We had our difficulties,” admitted the 31-year-old German. “We have lost in the past few weeks, a bit of the Speed. I think this was the reason that we could not really keep mind. The bottom line is we were not fast enough.”
The course is Hamilton
The look on the winner’s list in Austin is not likely to increase Vettel’s Confidence. Of the six previous world Cup race at the “Circuit of The Americas” since its Premiere in 2012, Vettel won only one: in 2013, at that time in the Red Bull-Renault. Five times the winner Lewis Hamilton was the last of four races on the course in Texas, the Brit won all of them. Of course he is. It is done for the early Mercedes-world Cup Party.