Sebastian Vettel left the pre-season test in Bahrain with the slowest lap time of all 20 race drivers that run in the desert island, as well as with the lowest number of laps achieved by those that will be taking part in the 2021 Formula One World Championship. It’s true that the Power Unit is the Mercedes Power Unit and it’s true the gearbox is supplied by Mercedes, but it’s still installed into our car, so there’s a lot of components that mixed at some stage. I think in the first races will be important to get into a groove properly, to get to understand the car, learning the set-up, which direction to take, to make it work. Vettel then concluded that, “I’m still playing around, trying lots of stuff; some stuff works ,some other stuff doesn’t, some things require breaking a habit. New people to get to know, struggling with the names but I’m getting there. What’s important is to make progress every time we get in the car and that has certainly been the case.

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