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Vettel: It was a great strategy
Sebastian Vettel has praised his Red Bull team after they gave him the opportunity to come from third on the road to claim victory in the Japanese Grand Prix. Despite starting from the outside of the front row, the three-time world champion made a poor getaway and dropped behind both polesitter Mark Webber and the fast-starting Romain Grosjean. His afternoon could have got worse had contact between his front wing and Lewis Hamilton's right rear Pirelli not just resulted in one-way damage to the Briton's car, but Vettel survived to follow instructions from the pit-wall that effectively transformed his race into a fifth successive win. Urged to back off and conserve his rubber, the German...
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