Sebastian Vettel has admitted that Lewis Hamilton's inability to contest Q3 at the Russian Grand Prix will make his afternoon slightly easier, despite having to take a five-place grid drop of his own. The German incurred his penalty after Ferrari was forced to change the gearbox in his car after FP2, and would have been looking at, at best, a spot on the outside of row four had both Mercedes drivers been able to run in Q3 but, with Hamilton suffering a repeat of his Shanghai engine problems, Vettel knew that being best of the rest behind Nico Rosberg would at least give him a better starting spot. “Of course I would have liked the gap in the end to be a bit smaller,” he said of the...
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