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"Hurt" Vettel says he now needs to "protect" Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel thinks it is essential he "protects" his Ferrari Formula 1 team right now from the inevitable criticism it will face amid its latest reliability drama. The German’s world title hopes suffered a fresh blow in the Japanese Grand Prix when he was forced out early on with a spark plug failure. On the back of the double engine problems that Ferrari suffered in Malaysia, after a manifold pipe failed on both cars, the latest technical problem has left its championship hopes in tatters. Although saying that what happened in Japan ‘hurt’, Vettel felt it would be wrong to criticise the outfit for all that had gone wrong – as he instead said he needed to shield his...
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