The 33-year-old was at a loss to explain whether his and Leclerc’s cars were different as he again bemoaned Ferrari’s strategy.
“I don’t know,” said Vettel. “I mean I guess something’s there that I’m missing. I’m not sure what it is but nevertheless I try to get out of bed and do as best as I can.
“For sure today we could have been higher up. From my side, obviously, with the speed, I’m not quite sure what happened there.
“Also with strategy we could have recovered better. I think the main difference is we don’t have clean races from where we start and he had a couple of clean races so far.”
Vettel and Ferrari will return to action next weekend when the streamlined F1 circus makes its way to the Circuit de Catalunya for the Spanish Grand Prix.
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