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Vettel delighted with 'fantastic' third

Sebastian Vettel was overjoyed to qualify in third place for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix; the Red Bull driver surprised many following a large loss of running time throughtout practice with a hydraulics problem and unforced error resulting in a spin on Friday, and another incident coming on Saturday as he went through the Turn 1 gravel trap.

"It's been a difficult two days leading up to qualifying," Vettel recalled. "I only had the pleasure of completing one lap in the first practice, then I made the mistake in the second, which meant that we couldn't run through our programme. We had a failure this morning, which cost us some track time, so it's been anything but ideal!

"I think we pulled everything together; we've been looking deeply at the data and trying to prepare well for qualifying. I think we succeeded, so thanks to everyone. We've had a tough winter and I've been surprised how close the feeling in the car is to last year. With all the regulation changes it's impressive what all the people have done - it's very tight at the front of the grid and all through the midfield"

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