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Vettel shocked by the large gap to Mercedes
Malaysian GP winner Sebastian Vettel knew that the Shanghai circuit would favour the Mercedes-branded cars, but he hoped to be closer to them. However, the German delivered when it mattered and took third place in qualifying. The quadruple- champion admitted that Ferrari were prepared to be defeated by a significant margin, but they were happy to be Mercedes’ nearest rival again. 'I think we knew it would be tough in qualifying to be really close,' he said. 'Q1 and especially Q2 look promising. In Q3 it was a bit more like what we saw in practice, so quite a large gap for us. But we're fairly happy to make sure we are right behind them.” Sebastian is adamant to reduce the gap in...
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