Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene says Sebastian Vettel “was unbelievable” as he won the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton by over eight seconds as Ferrari showed impressive long run pace and tyre management to beat the previously dominant Mercedes. With Vettel two-stopping to win and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen recovering from 11th on the grid and a first lap puncture to finish fourth, Arrivabene was full of praise for Ferrari’s strategy and Vettel’s execution of the race.
“Yesterday when we had qualifying I was part happy and part not,” Arrivabene said. “But the car of Seb was up there. Normally I don’t know why people in this world are not talking very openly, so this morning we had the brief. During the brief I saw the strategy and one slide after the other, the conversation with the engineer, then suddenly the race was becoming very clear and I said, ‘Ha ha, here we can do something interesting’.
“I have to say the discipline of the guys was amazing and the job of Seb was unbelievable. I have to congratulate also Kimi because he caught bad luck but still, from last position, was able to do a good job.
“During the race I was thinking about the briefing of this morning and I was looking at the discipline of the guys, drivers, engineers, and how they were working like a Swiss watch. But in this case it was a perfect Italian watch!”
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