Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel has acknowledged that it was always going to be difficult to find performance straight away in what was effectively a brand-new car at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. Controversy reigned ahead of the weekend when the Silverstone side rocked up to Barcelona with sidepods and venturi tunnels that looked uncannily similar to Red Bull, whose adviser Dr Helmut Marko has even said there is “evidence” of data theft. Vettel warned before practice that performance gains would not immediately be found, and that it was important for the team to get to know their AMR22-B, and he certainly was not wrong as both he and team-mate Lance Stroll were eliminated in...
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