Sebastian Vettel has said that the 2020 cars “should be faster” than the previous year depending on conditions but that the redesigned 2021 cars “will be a chunk slower”. The regulations changes between the 2019 and 2020 Formula 1 season was minimal to have a large effect on the look and design of this years cars. Vettel and Ferrari were dominant in pre-season this time last year as the German ended it with a time of 1:16.221, but Valtteri Bottas has already smashed that in his Mercedes, setting a lap time of 1:15.732. While Bottas set a time 0.8 tenths faster than anyone near to him the four-time World Champion does expect the cars to be quicker this...
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