What I'm really really! interested now at the moment is that... does Seb have another clause over a clause? That if he doesn't win more than "3 races" at the fault of RBR or Renault, (in this season) the clause is already broken..... eh! *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* In a way if this existed he has them by the balls (Valencia + Germany) are examples of RBR costing him the win, alternator or KERS failure unable to help getting past Alonso quicker.
I have no idea, most of what filters down to us lot is 10th hand, then we add our own slant on things (what we want to be true) and spew out here has gospel.. Well I do anyway He's always come across as someone that is goal driven (Yes, I too have an semi-professional self taught Masters in reading body language), similar to Tiger Woods, all that matters to Tiger is beating Jack Nicklaus major record, I think all that matters to Vettel is beating his hero's record (Schumacher) and if he can win X number of WDCs in an HRT then so be it, he'll only go to Ferrari if they are the team to be in at the time!
It wouldn't suprise me if he has a win clause along side a total points/% of WDC points clause. I would think that Vettle will win again this year anyway but if he has a clause saying he must win 3 or 4 races; who knows?
Bit more than a hand/hand and a half's difference, eh Silver? No doubt the penalty was due. Alonso was further alongside than Vettel was in 2011, had his whole car off the circuit and had to back off. Vettel only had two wheels off (just) in 2011 and still made the pass. Whilst Alonso should be careful how many times he cries Wolf!, what happened to him was worse than 2011 and the penalty was fully justified with the clarificataion of the rules on how far a driver can go to defend his position.
If Alonso had about a tyres width extra from Seb he would have nothing to say about that move. Also I don't see Seb turn left and back out where Alonso does when it's his turn to take the outside and he makes it looks worse than it actually did. Seb reacts when it looks like Alonso was losing it as he didn't leave him enough room. And if he was really trying to take him out, he would of kept of going wide and finished him and try to blag he was trying to give him the inside rather than the outside. With the slow mo replay and with regards to the "leave a car space" in 2011 and 2012. Alonso stops leaving a car space for Seb at 0:24 up until 0:30 when he decides to move right, so why no (Under investigation) for Alonso? There has always been a rule for dangerous driving but nothing was done about it last year, that's my real problem with this situation and the stewards can jump around all they want saying absolute **** trying to make out each situation is different.....eh? Alonso has a cars space from 0:22-0:23 right at the point when the tyres are close to interlocking. Just before 0:24 the car space has gone up until 0:28 when Seb turns right like Alonso did last year. Neither left a car space for the full duration of their moves, yet Seb got no sympathy from the stewards of the likelihood of people conspiring against him for his world title. All he got was a "**** you Red Bull" from Alonso himself before the award giving and the FIA didn't batter an eyelid afterwards. The only difference was Seb got past and won, Alonso didn't and got 3rd. It was still dangerous driving at both situations though! Anyway the only person I blame are the (((((((Italian and Spanish))))) stewards for their inconsistency. If their was consistency I would of had no problem with the penalty towards Seb. I have my opinion, you sure have your own, but for me I don't care or want to talk about it anymore as I got 1 word for this situation (BOLLOCKS!) make of that as you will!
Sorry if I somehow missed this being mentioned but... Austosports Driver ratings 1. Sebastian Vettel 7/10 Started: 5th Finished: 22nd Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 2. Mark Webber 4/10 Started: 11th Finished: 20th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 3. Jenson Button 8/10 Started: 2nd Finished: DNF Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard-retired) 4. Lewis Hamilton 9/10 Started: 1st Finished: 1st Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 5. Fernando Alonso 9/10 Started: 10th Finished: 3rd Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 6. Felipe Massa 8/10 Started: 3rd Finished: 4th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 7. Michael Schumacher 8/10 Started: 4th Finished: 6th Strategy: 2 stops (medium-hard–hard) 8. Nico Rosberg 7/10 Started: 6th Finished: 7th Strategy: 2 stops (medium-hard-hard) 9. Kimi Raikkonen 8/10 Started: 7th Finished: 5th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 10. Jerome d'Ambrosio 7/10 Started: 15th Finished: 13th Strategy: 1 stop (hard-medium) 11. Paul di Resta 7/10 Started: 9th Finished: 8th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 12. Nico Hulkenberg 6/10 Started: 24th Finished: 21st Strategy: 1 stop (hard-medium) 14. Kamui Kobayashi 6/10 Started: 8th Finished: 9th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 15. Sergio Perez 9/10 Started: 12th Finished: 2nd Strategy: 1 stop (hard-medium) 16. Daniel Ricciardo 7/10 Started: 14th Finished: 12th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 17. Jean-Eric Vergne 5/10 Started: 16th Finished: DNF Strategy: 0 stops (medium-retired) 18. Pastor Maldonado 6/10 Started: 22nd Finished: 11th Strategy: 2 stops (hard-medium-medium) 19. Bruno Senna 6/10 Started: 13th Finished: 10th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 20. Heikki Kovalainen 6/10 Started: 17th Finished: 14th Strategy: 2 stops (medium-hard-medium) 21. Vitaly Petrov 7/10 Started: 18th Finished: 15th Strategy: 2 stops (medium-hard-medium) 22. Pedro de la Rosa 6/10 Started: 23rd Finished: 18th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 23. Narain Karthikeyan 6/10 Started: 21st Finished: 19th Strategy: 1 stop (medium-hard) 24. Timo Glock 6/10 Started: 19th Finished: 17th Strategy: 2 stops (medium-hard-hard) 25. Charles Pic 6/10 Started: 20th Finished: 16th Strategy: 2 stops (medium-hard-hard) Alonso, Perez and Hamilton are the join 'winners' with Webber the 'looser'
Why did Vergne only get 5? His car broke, it wasn't his fault. And how D'Ambrosio got a 7 is a mystery to me.
And there was me thinking on initial reflection that the ratings were actually correct. D'Ambrosio deserves a 5 at best, KERS failure or not. Vergne was poor in qualifying so I see his 5. Not sure what more Senna has to do to impress Autosport.
