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Alex Zanardi has claimed that it is fairly obvious that Sebastian Vettel is the favourite for the 2017 world championship. The German sits top of the driver standings with a margin of 25 points over main rival Lewis Hamilton.
Vettel has not won a world championship since 2013, his penultimate year with Red Bull. Indeed, this is the first year he's had a chance to win the title since that final year before the V6 hybrid engines were introduced.
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"I do not need a crystal ball to say that Vettel is in the running for the championship," Zanardi said to Corriere dello Sport newspaper. "Sebastian is leading the championship by 25 points from Hamilton, so it is logical that the prediction at this time is on his side," the 50-year-old added.
But Zanardi, 50, also admitted his surprise that Ferrari has managed to work its way back to the top of F1 so quickly, after failing to win a single race in 2016: "I think it was a miraculous recovery that no one would have predicted," he said. "But the men from Maranello will not be satisfied until they have gone all the way and so they will continue to push. The whole organisation there has a crazy hunger for victory and logically as Italians we are all hoping.
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