Marko Hanželic
"I don't expect a good result in the race," announced after Saturday’s qualifiers Sebastian Vettel. And that's what happened. On GP of Portugal je Heppenheimer stuck again somewhere in the middle and got in the last laps fought for a point, which he eventually only won.
“No, I’m not exactly happy about that point. I'm not here to celebrate one point, ” explained the German after crossing the finish line in an interview with RTL. At the start of the race, he failed to maintain his 15th starting spot and dropped to XNUMXth.
“Actually, I started quite solidly and drove a good first and second turn, but then I really had nowhere to retreat. In all the chaos, it was difficult to get the tires to working temperature. ”
"I think it was hard for everyone, but even more so for me, at least that's how it seemed to me." As on Saturday, so is Sunday Nemec had in the beginning "Terrible problems"that the medium compound tires have reached operating temperature. “The whole race was very difficult to drive with a car like that. I always lost my grip very suddenly. It was very difficult to maintain consistency. ”
When asked why so far for a teammate Leclerc, the four-time world champion replied: “I don’t know what’s going on yet, sometimes I feel like a total idiot, even though I know I’m not. Here and there I seem to be driving fast, but the very next moment everything falls apart for me. My expectations are higher than the expectations of external actors. I'm not really interested in all the gossip about it, but for me in the car, it's hard to process everything because I'm too ambitious and too hungry for success. ”
More than he says currently simple he can’t do it, but he realizes he needs his unfortunate mission Ferrari still somehow bring it to the end of the season.
