Vettel says he has a problem with Ferrari on a fast lap in Hungary, but avoids predictions.

Sebastian Vettel doesn't think Ferrari's performance is that difficult, but he asks for improvement in dry track conditions. The four-time champion also does not dare to anticipate what the Italian team can achieve in qualifying.

Sebastian Vettel also did not reach the border with Ferrari on Friday (2) in free training in Hungary. The German was not entirely happy with his pace in fast laps, although he was not that far away from the master Lewis Hamilton in FP1.

The Ferrari driver also intends to work more with the car before trying to predict what the team can achieve on Saturday's qualifying session. “It wasn't difficult in the dry. There are also some businesses to increase and we are struggling to gather the automobile's full potential into one agile turn.

It’s difficult to distinguish how similar we are to others,” said Vettel at the end of the day.

But the day wasn't just a matter of increasing the car on a dry track. The sieve in the second half of FP2 gave the teams the chance to run on intermediate tires and compare their capacity with what was found in the German GP, ​​during the week of the race.

“I didn't get scared in the sieve, but I certainly appeared a little scared”, commented Vettel, only 13th in FP2. “You have a long convention ahead of you and at that time we were not sure about the intensity of the screening.

There was a strong sieve, but similarly we had a good trail. You constantly learn one thing,” she continued. “It is more fundamental to have answers about the car than to obtain time on the final lap.

I think it was good to have a transfer to intermediates at the end, being able to compare with conditions that weren't quite good in the leg week. I have a better perception this week than in Germany with the intermediaries”, he concluded. Hamilton led FP1 while Pierre Gasly took first place in FP2.