No panic for Vettel despite FP2 scrape

Sebastian Vettel has thrown it all away here before, and he will be cautious not to do it again this year. In 2017 the Singapore Grand Prix was set to be the race where Vettel reeled in Lewis Hamilton in his charge for a fifth world title.

He started on pole but was involved in a first lap pile up with fast starting team mate Kimi Raikkonen and Max Verstappen, and then hitting the wall a few corners later.

The German retired, and Hamilton took the race win and that fifth title eluded him once again.

This year, 30 points behind, Vettel is determined to do the best he possibly can to try and steal that title from Hamilton, so scraping the barriers during FP2 was definitely not on his list of things to do.

Despite the incident, Vettel is staying calm and insists there is nothing to worry about after he missed the majority of the session.

He was asked if there was any reason for panic, and he responded: “No not at all. By now I think you have quite good experience reading into the others, what they did and reading into their runs with tyres which will obviously be key for Sunday but we can recover most of it tomorrow.”