Vettel, GP Brazil: "I don't know why we touched"

It all happened in a final race under the banner of chaos. Bottas, on lap 52, broke the engine and parked the car in a harmless escape route. The race direction sent the safety car to the track, two laps later, keeping it out until the 60th lap.

Vettel, third behind Verstappen and Hamilton, handled the reboot, being overtaken by a fierce Albon.

From that moment on, Seb started losing lucidity. The German, in the following 6 laps, tried to recover his position on the RB15 without success … Attack that, instead, succeeded to Leclerc who, with cooler red tires, put him firmly on the S of Senna.

Film already seen. Vettel responded to an error with another error. At the attack of Leclerc he counterattacked in the following straight, but in closing the trajectory to the companion he caused a contact between the single-seaters with the result of sending out both.

"I think it's a pity for the team – He told Sky – I think we could have achieved a better result and deserved it today. "

Then, from his point of view, he exposed the dynamics of the incident: "Obviously we were fighting among ourselves at the chicane and it was an aggressive fight. I had more battery than him, between curves two and three I thought I was already ahead, I don't know why we touched each other, and this concluded the race of both ".

One question remains: because, as seen in the images, Seb decided to move so much to close the space to Leclerc. "I was going straight" the German's answer.

The world championship has long since gone, only Seb was still on the hunt third place in the drivers' standings, which is worth nothing at the palmares level, but it means a lot in terms of team strength for next year.

With this 0, Seb remains at 230 points and definitely says goodbye to the possibility of coupling to Verstappen that flies to 260 meters.