He was punished in the race for colliding with Esteban Ocon, which deprived him of all chances to finish the race during point winners. Nevertheless, the team still maintains hope in Vettel.
"If you look at the positive things, he had to start the race from scratch and still drive for a while among the top ten,”Is in an interview for the official website Formula 1 said Otmar Szafnauer, team boss Aston martin who admits he doesn’t know how it was Hag felt after the first race of the season in Bahrain. “I had to leave the meeting earlier so I didn’t get his feedback, but from behind the command desk I could see that his lap times weren’t much below Lance Stroll."
The position on the track, however, meant that Hag he could never really get into the rhythm. According to Saffron it is too early to say yes Hag not in shape. “We are still at a very early stage of the season. He couldn’t do many laps during the winter tests, moreover, he had to share the car with Lance and in view of the problems we had, it seemed that all the problems had accumulated over Seba. The race car he has now is completely different from what he was used to."
The only real circle when it can be Hag fully pressed in his green race car, was in the qualifiers. However, this circle broke Nikita mazepin, which spun in the first turn and before that overtook many racing cars in the warm-up lap, for which it deserved many criticisms. “It was the only time he felt really good in the car. I'm sure we can handle everything with ourselves," Ends Saffron.