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Vettel: In race trim we are closer to Mercedes

Sebastian Vettel finished qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix but will start from the front row of the grid. thanks to a penalty incurred by Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas, from where the Ferrari driver believes he has a car to match title rival Lewis Hamilton. After enjoying a couple of races where the Ferrari had the legs on Mercedes, Vettel was incapable of preventing the Silver Arrows one-two during qualifying at Suzuka. He explained, 'I think in the last run there was still a bit of time that I could have activated. I knew that there was a gap to Lewis, but I also knew that Valtteri [Bottas] was not an issue, so I tried – but it didn’t work out so well. In the end I knew that P1 was...
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