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The sad thing is that Kimi is showing himself to be just as good a wingman as Bottas, but Ferrari is letting him go because they sense that Vettel may not have what it takes to beat Hamilton currently so they want to gamble that LeClerc may have that or at least force Vettel to step it up. If Vettel were leading in the drivers points Ferrari would have deferred to him in terms of keeping Kimi. At this point though I think Vettel is what he is and under pressure he can make mistakes. Next year Ferrari will need a clearly superior car to beat Mercedes.