Vettel is surprised by the loss of control of his exotic car by the series

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ferrari's rival in Formula 1, Sebastian Vettel, believes that his recent loss of control of his car is more of a mistake than a mistake.

The German driver, who must win the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, wants to keep his hopes of losing Lewis Hamilton, fifth, lost control of the car in three of the last five races while he was trying to compete with his rival.

He faced Hamilton in the first round in Italy and repeated it in Japan when he tried to overtake Max Frestaben, Red Bull driver, and hit Sunday's Australian Daniel Ricciardo in Texas.

"When you approach another car, you lose some of the lower pressure and you lose control of the car." His rotation around him was strange because I could not do anything, "said Vettel at the time. press on the circuit Hermanus Rodriguez.

"It was not that I was driving too fast or that I was losing control of the car at this speed, so I think there was a problem because of the attempt to get around this situation."

"In all three positions, I was not in front, but in the best of cases, next to another car.Maybe next time I'll try to double it. ;outside."

Vettel is 70 points behind Hamilton in three races and the British will earn their fifth title if they are seventh in Mexico City.

Hamilton outperformed after Vettel's mistakes, but the German driver confirmed that he was not trying to do a silly thing.

"I did not try to do everything that was destined to fail," said Vettel, who accepted the critics because he had lost control of his car.

Vettel moved from pole position last season to Mexico, but hit Hamilton initially and slipped to 19th before finishing fourth.

Vettel said that he had not answered the question of whether he thought it was the reason she had lost the championship this year more than Hamilton would win it at rightly.

"I still consider the championship to be the winner with the most points and we could have increased our balance, but we have to ask ourselves if we have always been in a good position to achieve this result."