F1: 5 Talking Points after the French Grand Prix 2019

Lewis racked up his 6th win of the year
Lewis racked up his 6th win of the year

#2 Is it the end of the road for Vettel at Ferrari?

Vettel hasn't looked settled in Ferrari this year
Vettel hasn't looked settled in Ferrari this year

Sebastian Vettel has not been a happy man for a while now. For a man who just got married this weekend, this certainly wouldn't be described as a honeymoon period for him. The events at Canada were still fresh when Vettel joined the paddock and with virtually every driver on the grid siding with Seb on the incident. Although the stewards still decided to overturn the request to review the penalty given in Canada.

As the weekend went on and Ferrari tested the parts brought to the car it became more and more clear that they just didn't have the desired result. What followed was an agitated Sebastian in Q2 coming on the radio and a subsequent below par Qualifying performance. The German claimed after the race that Ferrari failed to meet the objective they had set out to achieve in France which killed all the hopes of a fightback.

What's obvious right now is that nothing makes the 4-time World Champion happy. His car is nowhere. The rules and regulations in his view cost him a hard-earned win and at the same time, he has to keep a young charger who is snapping at his heels behind him. It's not the kind of environment in which Seb excels as Horner pointed out this weekend.

Throughout the weekend it just didn't seem like Seb wanted to be there. The fight just wasn't there, he's lost that edge which made him lethal and it's becoming painfully obvious that he's just not having fun at Ferrari anymore.

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