Categories: F1 News, Reports and Race ResultsFerrari

Vettel 'not entirely happy' with car

Sebastian Vettel admits he is "not entirely happy" with his Ferrari despite appearing competitive during Friday practice for the British Grand Prix.

Nico Rosberg set the pace in both practice sessions, but Ferrari was much more competitive in FP2 with Kimi Raikkonen second and Vettel third ahead of Lewis Hamilton. While only 0.02s slower than his team-mate, Vettel says he was not totally comfortable with the handling of his car.

"We didn’t have any issues with the car and, more or less, we got through everything we wanted to do," Vettel said. "Still I’m not entirely happy with the car yet. Some of the things we tried were good and others were not so good. Now we have to make sure to have only the best things in the car tomorrow. Then I hope we can do a step forward.

"This track is a lot about finding the rhythm. About the tyres, I can say that it is only Friday, and not everybody was able to get everything out of both compounds. Anything can happen tomorrow and our main opponents will certainly be very strong, but if we can confirm today’s result, that would be good."

Having split the Mercedes, Vettel says he is expecting an improvement from the championship leaders on Saturday.

"I don’t know what happened to them, but we saw the pace in general with them during a long run in the morning, so they will be quick no matter what. Everything else will be a surprise, but if we can repeat it [being ahead of a Mercedes] tomorrow then we will see."

Click here for the F1 drivers' girlfriends gallery

Keep up to date with all the F1 news via Facebook and Twitter

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.