Sebastian Vettel remains confident that the Red Bull RB8’s form will not be compromised by an FIA clampdown on engine mapping.
After his team escaped sanction in Hockenheim the governing body has sought to clarify the regulations which its own stewards had deemed to be not precise enough.
Technical delegate Jo Bauer had declared that the cars were contravening the restrictions on blowing of the diffuser.
“Obviously there’s a lot of talk,” said Vettel. “There has been some talk Saturday night and Sunday, which obviously wasn’t nice for us in terms of race preparation, if you only know roughly an hour before the race what’s going to happen.
“It was good for us to start from the grid, but it was also clear that probably it was not the last action to be taken. But to be honest there is more of a fuss in writing and talking than mapping in the car.”
Vettel declined to quantify any potential loss of form: “Obviously what we had in the car in Hockenheim was what we decided to race and go for, because we believed it was quickest. It’s a little bit different for here. It’s hard to express, it’s hard to give you two-tenths, half a tenth, nothing. We can’t measure it either.”
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