Vettel has lost the title race unless Hamilton has some serious reliability issues and Seb capitalises.
The title race was lost through a series of mistakes and bad calls during the season, despite the car being pretty much the fastest all season (with exceptions).
Hamilton and Merc are just flawless. Their car is bulletproof, Bottas is fast enough and obedient enough to block another car for Lewis when they have to and they hardly ever mess up their strategy.
Ferrari simply don't have what it takes to beat Mercedes at the moment. They have a fast car and lead driver, a compliant team mate and yet they can't string together a decent weekend.
Either they get it wrong in qualifying like they did on Saturday (
Vettel even called out that Merc were moving slowly on the outlap, implying Merc knew something which Ferrari didn't) or they get outsmarted during the race.
Whatever it is, something is just not clicking at Ferrari at the moment.
Edited by DrF, 17 September 2018 - 06:36.