2/19/2023 0 Comments Ferrari f1 2020It wasn’t just the driver, it was the whole team.” Antonini not surprised by Vettel’s retirement decision It’s like you have a soccer team and you’re supposed to have your players withstand 90 minutes and then, all of a sudden, after 70 minutes, they start to fall apart. “It was really difficult to take it to the end and it fizzled out. ![]() The situation was far more complicated than it looked and it was not down to driver errors what happened in those two seasons. “I don’t blame for everything that happened there, because he’s been taking too much criticism and I don’t think he deserves all that. Today’s Ferrari is probably the best Ferrari ever seen in decades so, I keep wondering if Sebastian had been in this car and a few years younger. “In relation to competition, Mercedes at the time, the car was good but not that good. The car was good, but you have to put things into perspective. “But the technical situation at the time was far, far worse then than what it is now. “What happened in Hockenheim in Germany when he just went straight into the barrier when he was leading and controlling the race – that did affect him, psychologically,” Antonini said. Vettel and Ferrari would never regain the impetus in that year’s title fight, and Antonini believes the moment marked the start of his downfall. Vettel led the title fight into his home race at the German Grand Prix, but a catastrophic mistake while leading handed the win to Lewis Hamilton. ![]() Sebastian was very, very keen to go for it.” The car was not a winner from the start, it was worked on to become a winner. “He’s not supposed to be looking for the big lap times that day, but he felt there was something wrong with the car. When the season started, at the shakedown, which normally used control tyres, Sebastian drove the car for the first time. “In 2018, I want to be absolutely honest with you. “So all the improvements that you’re supposed to put in the car from mid-season onwards, most of them were not right. “In 2017, the car was very good, but the development faded,” he said. Antonini described what went wrong, in his eyes. ![]() “He also clashed, in a way, with the reality of such a big company where everything has to be gauged because you’re always worried about the consequences of what you do.” Ferrari failed to deliver with Sebastian Vettelįerrari managed to challenge Mercedes for the title in 20, but both challenges would fall short by the conclusion of the season. “He just started, I’m going to be blunt, annoying some people by telling them ‘that’s not the way we did it at Red Bull’ and they’d say ‘you’re not at Red Bull now, you’re at Ferrari’. “When he came along at Ferrari, we joined the team virtually together at the end of 2014. With Red Bull, he probably had the right environment for him. “People tend to forget that he won four world championships in a row. “He did everything he had to do at Red Bull,” Antonini told host Matthew Marsh on the GoF1 show. ![]() The former journalist joined Ferrari as their press officer at the same time as Vettel’s arrival in late 2014, the four-time World Champion departing Red Bull to emulate his hero Michael Schumacher’s move to race in red.īut Antonini has revealed that Vettel stepped on plenty of toes as he found his way at Ferrari, due to his attempts to instil some of the methods used at Red Bull. Vettel’s curious nature, and willingness to explore other methodologies, apparently annoyed the Ferrari team when he first joined the Scuderia, according to Antonini. Former Ferrari press officer Alberto Antonini has revealed how Sebastian Vettel “annoyed” Ferrari when he joined the team.
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