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title: "Vettel hoped Ferrari would be closer to Mercedes"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Connor McDonagh"
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published: "2015-11-01T15:12:58Z"
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# Vettel hoped Ferrari would be closer to Mercedes

Despite qualifying within four-tenths of a second to Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Sebastian Vettel says he expected Ferrari to be closer to Mercedes in qualifying.

Vettel qualified third for the Mexican Grand Prix, behind the Mercedes duo of Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.

“I thought we would be a bit closer to the Mercedes than we actually were in qualifying: unfortunately, they proved to be very strong. They were doing two consecutive laps, they were not using all the energy in one lap, so we need to be careful as I think they will be very quick also tomorrow in the race.

The German says he is aiming to beat Rosberg in today’s race as the duo fight for second in the drivers’ championship.

“But we will try our best, we are here to fight, we have nothing to lose. Nico \[Rosberg\] is the primary target, we want to keep second position in the championship and we’ll do everything we can to achieve that. I hope that our race pace tomorrow is going to be as good as it looked yesterday; obviously it is always difficult to know what other people are doing, but considering that we were on the harder tyre, on Friday we seemed to be very quick on the long-runs.”