Vettel reflects on "almost weekend" for Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel may have raced admirably in Austria, but the German has admitted it was an "almost weekend" and rued the issues the team had on Saturday which caused him to start ninth on the grid.

After failing to get out of the garage for Q3, Vettel failed to set a time meaning he started ninth, avoiding P10 thanks to a penalty to Kevin Magnussen. The German made a great start to the Austrian Grand Prix and went onto overtake Lewis Hamilton to finish fourth.

Despite some smart racing, the German rued the frustrating qualifying session and felt the team deserved both cars on the podium.

"It was an almost weekend - that's probably the right word. Obviously, yesterday hurt us with the pace that we had today. Otherwise, we could have had a better race, working better as a team and defending to the cars behind but it wasn't the case," Vettel told Rachel Brookes on Sky.