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“Well, it was very, very close,” Vettel said as per Motorsport.com. “He was a bit aggressive, I would say.
“But yeah, there was a bit of a confusion because I lost radio and I looked at the pit board, and I think race direction changed their mind of how long the race is going to go, and I didn’t know.But while they managed to avoid contact in that tussle, the German revealed there was a bit of paint swapping on the opening lap.“Then I got a lot of wheel slip and some aquaplaning and sort of lost the car, and then touched, and lost the car entirely. But then we had a great recovery in the end.
Vettel finished P6 ahead of Alonso, the driver putting his charge through the field down to Aston Martin’s call for him to swap his full wets for inters on the first lap of the restart. “Yeah, we spoke about it before,” Vettel said. “The team worked something out. And I obviously made the call judging the conditions, but it worked really well.”
“We dragged the car up to where probably doesn’t belong. Even splitting the Alpines, which are a lot faster than us, But we managed to hang in there, so I really enjoyed the weekend. And I love everything about this place.”
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