Former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi believes that Sebastian Vettel is still the title favorite despite losing the championship lead at the French Grand Prix to Lewis Hamilton. Vettel crashed into the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas and could only recover to fifth place.
Speaking to Italy's La Gazzetta Della Sport, Fittipaldi claimed that the error didn't mean that Vettel had lost the championship by any stretch of the imagination.
"From the first laps Vettel was too aggressive and then he got nervous.
"But technically Ferrari has more chances to win and in fact, in the last 3 or 4 grands prix, Mercedes has understood how much Ferrari has improved.
"Toto Wolff was very surprised by the performance of the Scuderia.
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"This championship is very balanced, even with a Red Bull that is very strong,"
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