Vettel was excluded from the race results after finishing second at the Hungaroring after Aston Martin failed to provide an adequate fuel sample after the race.
The FIA was only able to take 0.3 liters of fuel from Vettel’s car, although Aston Martin assumed that there were 1.74 liters in the car.
A fuel cell failure was the reason Aston Martin couldn’t meet the FIA’s request, but it wasn’t enough to keep Vettel from losing P2 in Hungary.
Before the Belgian Grand Prix, Vettel said: “It is of course bitter. I think it was a great result for us as a team and a lot of points that we got so very disappointing, but I don’t think we could have done much.
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“Of course we had the fuel under control during the race, we thought, but at the very, very end – I think it was the last lap – we realized that something was wrong and were very surprised when the fuel ran out. “Not in the car. So it’s very bitter, but those are the rules so we have to accept them and move on.
“It was a very big day because we also have big points, but of course we have a lot of races now, as I said, and we’re trying to squeeze some points into it.”
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Vettel believes the fact that Aston Martin didn’t have an advantage at the end of the race because it had a little less fuel in the car should mean the FIA isn’t as tough when it comes to penalties.
“Well, I think rules are rules and of course we didn’t know we had a problem, to be honest,” added Vettel. “When we checked that there was no fuel in the car and we were disqualified but we thought it was in the car so I don’t know if there is a better way to deal with it in the future, but I don’t think it is much could have been done.
“It’s very bitter because, first of all, I think we didn’t have an advantage; Second, we couldn’t explain to ourselves that there wasn’t enough fuel in the car. So something happened in the course of the race – I don’t know, a leak or something – that the fuel was just gone. I don’t know, probably more for the future.
“Looking back, I think it’s clear, the rules are what they are and we were disqualified. Of course when I look ahead it’s very bitter and I think under the circumstances I understand better because I was the one who suffered from it, you don’t want this to happen to anyone else and it should probably be a little more Have tolerance. But what exactly you should write on paper in black and white, I don’t know, others have to come up with that. “
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