SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- Despite finishing second to title rival Lewis Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel says Sunday's race gave his team a timely confidence boost ahead of the rest of the season.
Prior to the race at Spa-Francorchamps, there had been a widely-held assumption that Mercedes held the advantage on high-speed circuits while Ferrari was the dominant team on low-speed tracks. That assumption had been based on Ferrari's lack of race pace at the similarly high-speed Silverstone circuit in July and its strong performances at the high-downforce, low-speed circuits in Hungary and Monaco.
But after a strong race at Spa on Sunday, Vettel says his team no longer needs to fear high-speed circuits such as Sepang and Suzuka later in the year.