Sebastian Vettel needs to quiet down subsequent to being rebuffed for risky driving in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, says Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo.
“It was incredibly dangerous of Sebastian Vettel. He’s a real hot-head. We saw it in Mexico last year with his radio messages, and that was nothing but an emotional response to what he thought Hamilton had done to him.
“It was dangerous. Had something failed on Hamilton’s car as he was going down the pit straight at 200mph, let’s not even think about the consequences. Vettel was very foolish and the stewards agree and they gave him that 10-second penalty.
“This needle was kind of inevitable, because they are really the only two guys in this championship fight and they both really want it. The stakes are so high in F1 for so many different reasons that it’s impossible to be best mates with your main rival. But Vettel needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror.”
Vettel was given a 10-second unpredictable punishment for purposely swerving into title equal Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes amid Sunday’s race in Baku.
“Seb probably sometimes doesn’t think before he acts,” Ricciardo said.
“It’s probably driven through passion and hunger. He’s kind of just got to put a lid on it sometimes.” The Australian, who was Ferrari driver Vettel’s team-mate at Red Bull in 2014, won the race in the wake of dropping to seventeenth on lap six after a disorganized arrangement of occasions, which included three wellbeing car organizations, different accidents and seeing Hamilton giving up the prompt fix a free cockpit head-security gadget.
Ricciardo, speaking to news said: “I respect Seb a lot for his grit and his love for the sport, which turns into a lot of passion and sometimes aggression. I respect and like that about him.
“But today you have seen… whether it’s over the radio, sometimes he will just go crazy. It is probably – what’s the word? – spur of the moment? There’s a better word.”
