With his teammate lining up on the front row of the grid, half a second off the pace set by pole sitter Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel was forced to settle for third place on the British Grand Prix starting grid after recording a best time of 1”27'356 in the third and final session.
For Q1, Scuderia Ferrari chose to fit the Intermediate tyres, followed by the Supersoft once the track had dried.
Even though he is not on the front row for Sunday's race and will actually start directly behind his title rival, Seb was pleased with the behaviour of his Ferrari and is happy with the result overall.
“We are quite happy with the result and our performance was good. I think it will be tough tomorrow considering that Mercedes has been very quick for the whole weekend. Our car today was good and felt amazing, so overall I am happy,” he said.
“The track was not really wet and it was good fun to drive, I just found a bunch of cars ahead of me in my last run, but otherwise I think we improved the car a lot over the weekend, also in qualifying trim, and that's what really counts”.
