2018 | 11 | 27 No major surprises

 27. November 2018

Sebastian’s racing year came to an end today as he completed 68 laps of the Abu Dhabi track, with a best time of 1min36.812, which came courtesy of a fresh set of 2018-spec Hypersoft tyres.
“The purpose of this test is primarily to get a first feeling of the new tyres, with the impressions of the last weekend of racing still fresh in our minds,which gave us the possibility to compare. Unfortunately, today we lost some track time to repair work, but overall I think there were no major surprises as these tyres seem to work and to be fairly similar to the ones we used this season. Now we’ll see how the new regulations for 2019 affect the speed of all cars and how they work in combination with the tyres, also depending on the compound choices at the various tracks”.
Tomorrow, for the second and last day of tyre testing, Charles Leclerc will take over from Seb with a similar programme.

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Sebastian Vettel und Lewis Hamilton tauschen ihre F1 Helme

 Es ist die höchste Wertschätzung, die ein Rennfahrer einem anderen entgegenbringen kann – und genau so haben sich die Formel 1 Konkurrenten Sebastian Vettel und Lewis Hamilton im Kampf um den F1-Titel 2018 behandelt.

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Weiterlesen: Sebastian Vettel und Lewis Hamilton tauschen ihre F1 Helme

2018 | 11 | 25 It has been a very intense year

 25 November 2018

I think today’s race sums up the year pretty well: a few ups and downs and in the end just being close, but not close enough. Today, I really tried to hang on as long as I could, but it was tough being behind Valtteri. I believe I was a little bit quicker, but it was very difficult to get close, especially in the last sector, until he had some issues and I managed to get past. We were strong in the straights and we had speed, but we were struggling in the last sector to keep up, especially in the last two corners. At one point, I had hopes of winning the race, so I was pushing as hard as I could, but in the end it was not enough. It has been a very intense year and I think we have to look at ourselves, as there are many things that we can do better and the potential this team has is still huge.

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