From a potential Ferrari 1-2, the situation has suddenly devolved to a Mercedes 1-2. Charles Leclerc was hollering for Ferrari to swap him and race leader Sebastian Vettel around. Vettel got a fantastic start from P3 to leapfrog Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
However, Leclerc felt that he was hard done by, by the team and wanted Vettel to let him pass. However, Sebastian Vettel stood firm and was unwilling to move over for his younger teammate. Soon, the situation spontaneously combusted for Ferrari and Mercedes were there to pick up the pieces.
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While both Mercedes leapfrogged Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel trundled to a halt with an MGU-K failure.
Oh dear…. Ferrari seem to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory! 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ #RussianGP
— Karun Chandhok (@karunchandhok) September 29, 2019
Where are those Ferrari 50hp+ you were talking about @ Mercedes#RussianGP
— tami. (@Vetteleclerc) September 29, 2019
Leclerc with a scruffy last sector after closing right up on Bottas and he blows his chance to really attack into Turn 2 on this lap. Hamilton now 3.4s clear, not looking good for Ferrari #F1 #RussianGP
— Chris Medland (@ChrisMedlandF1) September 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/stino_ven/status/1178282620096000000?s=19
Now leclerc's gonna lose this race KARMA Ferrari #RussianGP pic.twitter.com/GwJouWgnNf
— S 🦋 (@lostklay) September 29, 2019
Imagine if Rosberg never retired. The season would just be Ferrari and Merc doing politics at 300kph
— F1 Alternatives (@F1_Alternatives) September 29, 2019
#Ferrari
Well deserved. pic.twitter.com/58b9azRF6C— Lars Krissmes (@StinktSauer) September 29, 2019
ferrari counted seb out and this is the price they paid
— mj (@sebvetteIs) September 29, 2019
Picking the next Ferrari strategist after the #RussianGP be like….
— Jeff (@jeffundmg) September 29, 2019
honestly …… i'm trying not to be bitter on here for most of the time but ferrari deserve every bit of backlash they're gonna get from this, and they WILL
— lisa (@sebinred) September 29, 2019
Vettel's final message after he stops: "Bring back those fucking V12s" #F1 #RussianGP
— Luke Smith (@LukeSmithF1) September 29, 2019
What I don't get is that even if Leclerc had been told to tow Vettel and he'd get the position back later, just stop Leclerc first and give him the undercut? They've created a mess now by trying to sort it out on track.
— Tom Bellingham (@TommyWTF1) September 29, 2019
Current scenes in Sebastian Vettel's car…#bbcf1 #F1 #RussianGP pic.twitter.com/BDM8k6vuJA
— BBCF1 (@bbcf1) September 29, 2019
EVERYONE, VOTE VETTEL AS THE DRIVER OF THE DAY
Please share and Retweet #VettelForDOTD
— Ayden 🇦🇺🏴🇬🇧 (@MotorsportDavo) September 29, 2019
So we are in agreeance that Ferrari purposely fucked with Vettel? #RussianGP pic.twitter.com/K699reQPQN
— Yeah I said it (@lazykyosuke) September 29, 2019
You played it dirty: you should be proud of yourselves. You robbed Vettel his win 😤 pic.twitter.com/ysZSrJg1dz
— 𝐌𝐫. 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤 🦈 (@mrdavison1) September 29, 2019
