While today's Q3 strategic error has no doubt gone some way towards finally killing off Sebastian Vettel's title hopes, surely there could have been a kinder way to put the Prancing Horse out of its misery. The Italian team, whose hopes have fallen apart since the end of the summer break, much as they did in 2017, already reeling as a result of the recent unexplained loss of pace, was left almost a laughing stock by the strategic error which saw both drivers sent out on Intermediates at a time everyone else was on supersofts. Like most gambles, if it had paid off, if the rain had arrived sixty seconds earlier and the Mercedes pair found themselves slithering around Suzuka, Ferrari would...
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