{"id":16602,"date":"2012-09-11T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16602"},"modified":"2012-09-11T07:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T11:26:12","slug":"vettel-hopes-for-more-speed-at-slower-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-hopes-for-more-speed-at-slower-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel hopes for more speed at slower tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sebastian Vettel is expecting to get back in the game next time out in Singapore.<\/p>\n

\"Sebastian-Vettel-2\"The reigning world champion is now 39 points behind Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso after the Spa-Monza double header, where Red Bull’s RB8 struggled on the high speed straights.<\/p>\n

“Our biggest problem is a lack of speed on the straights,” he is quoted by Brazil’s O Estado de S.Paulo, after seeing the gap blow out by a factor of 15 points at Monza.<\/p>\n

“We were always among the slowest.<\/p>\n

“Fortunately the tracks for the next races have less long straights, which should allow us to fight for victories,” added Vettel.<\/p>\n

But some members of the international press are now saying Vettel is little more than an outside chance to defend his two consecutive titles this season.<\/p>\n

Team owner Dietrich Mateschitz told Salzburger Nachrichten: “As long as we have a mathematical chance, we continue to believe.”<\/p>\n

A pragmatic Dr Helmut Marko added: “It is going to be difficult.<\/p>\n

“Alonso has to be our model,” he is quoted by Bild newspaper, “scoring podiums or at least points in every race.\u00a0 It’s still possible.”<\/p>\n

The immediate hurdle, however, is to solve the alternator problems that left Vettel at the side of the track both in practice and also the race at Monza.<\/p>\n

The Renault\/Magneti Marelli units are failing in higher ambient temperatures, and the conditions in Singapore this week are already in the low-30s.<\/p>\n

Renault’s Remi Taffin ruled out Vettel as a cause of the failures.<\/p>\n

“It’s nothing to do with him,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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