Vettel believes the next few races are vital for Ferrari to "unlock the car"

Sebastian Vettel has said that the next few races will be vital for Ferrari as they try and get their season back on track. Ferrari have struggled so far this season and the team has been surrounded by the controversy of team orders so far this season. Vettel believes the Ferrar is a fast car and that they will be able to get their season back on track.  

“I think these couple of weeks and the next weeks will be very important for us to understand where we need to go in the next months,” Vettel said to crash.net. “Clearly we were not as fast as Mercedes. Bit of a shame we couldn’t get third and fourth but overall I think we optimised.

“There were stages in the race where we were strong, and stages of the race where we were weaker compared to where we wanted to be.

“We have a very strong car, there’s nothing wrong with it but I think we’re not able to yet put it in the window. Especially for myself, here and there. I’m not entirely happy yet compared to where we started off.”

"Obviously, the three tracks we’ve been to now are quite different,” he said. “The conditions we had are different – but I think we start to see a sort of pattern and understand what – especially throughout a Grand Prix distance – understand what we need, what I need, to really unlock this car.”

Ferrari will hope that they can find the pace that their car offers and that they can sort out the controversy surrounding team orders over the next few races.