De volledige boordradio: Vettel woedend over straf in Canada

Na het incident in ronde 48, gaven de FIA-stewards hem een penalty voor de onveilige wijze waarop hij terugkeerde op het circuit. Hieronder het transcript van de communicatie over de boordradio.

Engineer: “We’ve got a five-second time penalty for unsafe re-entry, head down, head down. Hamilton three seconds behind…”

Vettel: “I had nowhere to go. Seriously, I had nowhere to go. I did see him.”

Engineer: “Copy.”

Vettel: “I had to go through the grass, and you come back, he has amazing grip, where the hell am I supposed to go? I have grass on my wheels. It’s his fault if he decides to go that way. If he goes to the inside he’d have gone past me.”

Engineer: “OK, stay focused, copy that, stay focused. Ten laps to go.”

Vettel: “I am focused. But they are stealing the race from us.”

Engineer: “Copy that.”

Na de race was er meer over de boordradio uitgewisseld...

Vettel: “You need to be an absolute blind man to think you can go through the grass and then control the car. I was lucky I didn't hit the wall. Where the hell am I supposed to go? This is a wrong world I tell you. This is not fair.”

Teambaas Mattia Binotto probeerde Vettel nog te kalmeren, maar de coureur had er genoeg van.

Vettel: “I am not staying calm. This is not fair. It is not fair. I'm angry... and I have the right to be angry. I don't care what people say.”