By James Broughton, August 30, 2018
Sebastian Vettel, along with Scuderia Ferrari, made an appearance at the 2018 F1 Milan Festival, Italy. Vettel’s appearance was part of Ferrari’s public engagement with Italian fans. It’s a chance for the fans to see and experience an F1 car up close and personal.
Such public events are held in controlled environments and usually driven at low speeds. So you would think nothing could go wrong, right? Wrong, it did go wrong for Sebastian Vettel.(long version below)
Sebastian Vettel had to contend with his demo lap being cut short after he failed to navigate a bend. The 2018 2018 Ferrari SF71H understeered into the plastic barriers. To be fair to Vettel F1 cars are not meant to be driven around these ridiculously tight, low-speed demo tracks. In addition, an F1 car’s steering lock isn’t designed for such tracks. Or it may well be the Ferrari engineers didn’t bother to adjust the steering lock. That said Kimi Raikkonen and Charles Leclerc also drove F1 cars around this stupid track. It seems that Sebastian Vettel was going a little too quick.