Question: Sebastian, obviously the only good news that you take home from this weekend is that Silverstone is a track where overtaking is possible…
Sebastian Vettel: Well, yes, you could put it this way. But naturally the cars in the back of the grid are so much slower that overtaking almost comes naturally. What else can I say? We could have won today with both cars - not only with one - and it didn’t work out. When I had that puncture on lap one I had to crawl back to the pits endlessly slowly which catapulted me to last place. Only the safety-car phase in the middle of the race helped me to gain ground, but at that time the car was already a bit damaged so there was a performance loss and in the end more was simply not possible. The only good thing was that after the safety car the race got more fun for me as I started to fight for points and positions.
Question: How did that puncture happen? Nobody seems to have a sound answer to that question…
Sebastian Vettel: No idea. I didn’t have the best start - probably we miscalculated a bit our starting performance and overdid it with the clutch. Fact is that my start was not that fantastic and when I tried to defend my position I realized that there was a puncture - and that was it at that moment.
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Question: Putting the result aside, you were engaged in some good fights that must have pleased the fans to watch. Cold comfort for you?
Sebastian Vettel: Yes, that was the fun part of the race. My fight with Adrian Sutil was very tough as I think that the Force India is the fastest car on the straight - something in the range of 10km/h faster - so it was not possible for me to overtake him on the straight and unfortunately we touched. Sure, that was in no way intentional and there is nothing more to say about it.
Question: What does this race mean for the championship?
Sebastian Vettel: We are just in midseason so there are still so many points left for allocation that it would be ridiculous to have sleepless nights over it.
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