Vettel's cheeky response to Hamilton drama

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Lewis Hamilton's rear helping controversy came to the delight of Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel.

Hamilton, a seven-time satellite champion, was disqualified from this morning's qualifying league astatine the Brazilian Grand Prix aft a method infringement.

When Hamilton bushed Max Verstappen by much than 0.4 seconds successful qualifying for the sprint race, organisers soon aft announced that his Mercedes was nether probe for DRS exceeding the maximum region erstwhile opened.

Making matters adjacent worse, Verstappen was fined $78,000 by stewards aft video taken from the grandstands astatine Interlagos showed him touching the rear helping of Hamilton's car successful the Parc Ferme — a unafraid country for cars astatine the track.

The full concern came to the amusement of Vettel, who's besides known to Formula One fans arsenic Inspector Seb.

Vettel has had his just stock of parc ferme controversies and has often been seen taking a person look astatine his rivals' cars. He was famously caught inspecting Hamilton's Mercedes with his ft successful 2018 astatine the Russian Grand Prix.

"I'm going to interaction Hamilton's rear wing," Vettel joked portion stuck down Hamilton.

Responding to the cheeky comment, Vettel's contention technologist said, "don't you dare! Very expensive".

Vettel replied: "I'll effort the beforehand wing, possibly it's 25 grand".

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