Sebastian Vettel has described the greater collective ethos at Ferrari as the biggest change during his four seasons with the Scuderia.
The German was drafted in as the new figurehead at Maranello after a tough 2014 with Red Bull and Fernando Alonso left the Italian team for McLaren.
His impact was pretty immediate as he won just his second race in red in Malaysia and has since gone on to claim 13 victories, finishing second to Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship the past two years.
“The team has developed a lot during this time,” he told Auto Motor und Sport when asked about his time with Ferrari.
“Today’s team is much stronger and more focused than four years ago, in the beginning, everything was very fragmented, now it is a unit.”
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While Vettel does believe the improvement in results proves Ferrari is heading in the right direction, he admits the failure to win a championship so far means there is still work to do.
“In recent years we have shown that this team has potential,” he stated. “We already had a very good car in 2017 and this year we achieved our goals we had set ourselves.
“Looking back, I’m sure you would have liked things to go a bit faster, but the trend is positive, even though we haven’t yet got where we want to go.”