In the round-up: Sebastian Vettel admits he’s having to find new forms of motivation racing in the midfield
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Vettel having to find “different sort of motivation” at Aston MartinSebastian Vettel admits he’s having to find new forms of motivation while racing in the midfield with Aston Martin.
Vettel joined Aston Martin from Ferrari and has only raced once this season, in Australia, where he retired. Vettel admits that racing has a “different taste” when not fighting for wins.
“In all honesty, I had an amazing 15 years or so looking back and I was in a position to win championships, win a lot of races, fight for positions, get a lot of podiums, and obviously the taste was great,” said Vettel.
“It’s not a secret that if you’re not in a position to be there that it’s a different taste. You need to find a different sort of motivation. But I think, ultimately, I’m willing to be tasting the same again. That’s the nature of the sport.”
Mercedes porpoising broke stay on Russell’s car – Wolff
Toto Wolff revealed that George Russell’s Mercedes suffered so severely from porpoising on the straight at Imola in practice that it broke a floor stay designed to increase the rigidity of the car’s floor.
Mercedes have struggled most visibly from the bouncing phenomenon experienced by 2022 ground effect F1 cars and are still developing solutions to the problem.
” We had George bouncing so much that he broke the stay, actually, on the floor,” Wolff explained to Sky F1. “You can’t drive here, you have to lift on the straight.”
Asked how the effect would impact on drivers Russell and Lewis Hamilton physically, Wolff said he did not know. “I don’t know, but I think they are trained“Everyone was panicking” before F2 qualifying, says polesitter Vips
Jüri Vips, who took pole in Formula 2’s heavily delayed qualifying session, said that despite a disrupted and wet practice session teams had been predicting dry weather.
“The most…