Sebastian Vettel confident about fixing KERS problem

Sebastian Vettel

Reigning World champion Sebastian Vettel has said that he is confident that his team will fix the KERS problem for Japanese GP.

“I’m sure we will find the problem tonight and it will be fine for tomorrow. Fortunately we have more time now to find out if something is broken or damaged,” he told.

Vettel was forced to sit out of a large chunk of the third practice session due to the KERS battery fault in his car which also restricted him from deploying a power boost in Q3 which resulted in him finishing below teammate Mark Webber for the first time in this season.

“We had a problem but that didn’t make a difference in terms of finding a rhythm. Mark did a very good lap. We had an issue in qualifying, but I’m not a big fan of ‘without this, with this’. It is always an unknown. The fact is that we are P2 and it’s a great result for the team,” Vettel added.

Team principal Christian Horner said that it was unlucky for the driver but praised him for finishing second despite the problem.

“It was unlucky for Sebastian. We had an issue with the KERS this morning, we changed as much as we could. The first session it failed in Q1, it came back in Q2, and then in Q3 it failed immediately. So both Sebastian’s laps in Q3 were without the KERS, so a great performance from him to get on the car on to the frontrow,” Horner said.