Points the target still for VettelWith two incidents and two mechanical failures at the start of the season, Sebastian Vettel's season got off to a dreadful start. However, a 17th place finish in Turkey followed ahead of a fifth place finish in Monaco and then another point
in Montreal. Vettel admits it has been something of a roller-coaster first full season in the series as he looks back on his season to date ahead of the British Grand Prix.
A shaky start
"The season so far has been quite interesting, with a lot of up and downs. We had an excellent start in Australia with a very good qualifying. We started the season with the old car, which in the end was the right decision because we were looking for reliability. After Australia, the next four Grand Prix starts or first laps were not quite so successful. We always had a first lap incident and crashes. But what can you say, sometimes shit happens, so you just have to focus again on the next race and I would say Turkey was more or less the turning point. We finished last in the race, we had quite a few difficulties with the pit stops and so on, but still we finished the race."
New car and Monaco points
"In Monaco we introduced the new car which was only my second time of driving it. We had a very good race there, in very tricky conditions.
We took our second finish of the season and my first points at the same time so that was very good. Then we went to Montreal which again is a special place and the race was obviously playing into our hands with the one stop strategy starting from the pit lane."
"It was good to have the safety car at the right time which helped us. But more important was the pace, which was very good all weekend and we were able to finish in the points again, P8. Then we had the first real test with the new car in Barcelona introducing new parts which brought a good step forward and in Magny-Cours, we had a very competitive package. It seems we are going in the right direction, steadily improving."
Looking ahead
"Hopefully, for the rest of the season, maybe even next week in Silverstone, we are in a good position to score some more points. So the target for the rest of the year is always to achieve 100 percent of our own performance."
