Sebastian Vettel admits he had to “freestyle” with 🎃fuel-saving to ensure he m💃ade it to the finish of Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix.

Vettel crossed the line in first place but was demoted to second-place behind Lewis Ha🐼milton after being hit with a controversial time penalty for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner following a mistake at Turn 3.

The German came under increasing pr🎉essure from Hamilton in the second half of the race prior to his mistake and revealed Ferrari had concerns over its fuel usage in the closing s🔥tages.

“ꦓSome laps I was saving fuel, some laps I wasn’t because I had to adjust given the gap I had,” Vettel eꦦxplained.

“We did so many laps and I don’t remembe🌺r the lap before or the l🗹ap before that, but certainly I had to react on the gap I had.

“So, when Lewis was closer I didn’t do fuel-saving and when he was a bit furthe�𝓰�r away and I had a bit of a cushion I was trying to save as much as I can.

“I pretty much had to freestyle in terms of fuel-saving to m💝ake sure I finished the race with so𝐆me fuel left.

“It may be that the lap before I was lifting off because he wasn’t as close, I didn’t try to re-invent Turn 3 af꧙ter 50 laps.”

The FIA announced on Thursday that Ferrari will present its case to the Mon🌠treal stewards for why it believes the incident should be looked at again on Friday ahead of this weekend’s French Gra⭕nd Prix at Paul Ricard.

Despite suggestions that Mercedes could argue it would have asked Hamilton to pass Vettel had the Ferrari driver not been penalised, Vettel said he never got the impression the ꦏreigning world champion was “easing off” at any point.

“Certainly it changed the race from that point onwards because I dಞon’t know how much Lewis was backing off or not but the fight🐬 was on for all the race,” he insisted.

“✱I thought it was quite exciting, at least inside the car but also outside the car, after that probably less so.”