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Vettel: Mercedes were better and faster

This season Sebastian Vettel broke the Mercedes stranglehold on the top two places in the Formula 1 championship standings and looked forward to mounting a stronger challenge with Ferrari in 2018. The four times world champion finished third at the year-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to end the championship as runner-up to Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and ahead of race winner Valtteri Bottas. It was the first time since the complex V6 turbo hybrid engines were introduced in 2014, ushering in an era of Mercedes domination, that a non-Mercedes driver had ended the season in the top two. Ferrari may have taken what Vettel called 'a fair beating' under the Yas Marina floodlights but the German...
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