Sebastian Vettel 👍insists he did nothing different when running over💎 the bumps at the Circuit of the Americas after retiring from the United States Grand Prix with suspension failure.

The Ferrari driver suffered a suspension failure on the right rear of his SF90 when he ran wide over the kerbs at Turn 8 on the eighth lap of Sunꦐday’s race in Austin.

Vettel, who struggled with underste♒er in the opening laps and dropped down the order, immediately retired due to the damage while running seventh in the order.

“Ther🐟e was very poor grip in the first lap, I had to let a lot of cars by, and I struggled really to get the car to work, especially in right-hand corners,” Vettel explained.

“And some laps in, the suspension failed over the bump in Turn 9. But I’ve done nothing different to the previous laps an🌳d the 🗹whole weekend.

“I’ve been taking a lot of care the whole weekend. I didn’t do an𒁃ything different to the whole weekend, but surely something broke, so something didn💯’t last.”

The bumps at COTA had proved a controversial topic throughout the weekend, w𒁃ith drivers labelling the state of the track surface as "totally unacceptable". 

Asked if he felt any contact at the start, Vettel replied: “No I had no contac🙈t, 𒀰but I just wanted to make sure they go through the footage again.

“I just had really, really poor grip, s🗹truggled to get the tyres to work, and had a poor feeling with the car straightaway.

“It took some laps to get the tyres up to work, and from there, I was just about settling into a rhythm. I still had issues in right hand corners mostly, but I obviously had to get used to it, and then the sus🥃pension failed.”