...rather see the Aussie Webber doing it.
After the same fuel irregularity Hamilton had earlier in the season.
There is a God...come on Alonso
For me, Vettell has slipped comfortably in to the role of boring,metronomic Michael Schumacher of old. Never seems to have any car issues, always seems to avoid being involved in crashes or fallout from debris and always seems to be the net beneficary of penaltys either on the grid or drive through
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It's like the story in the Premiership, the likes of Chelsea/Arsenal/City will all knock points off each other while Man U get the key rub of the green whenever they play one of the bigger clubs and get the three points. TBH, we might as well give Man U and Vettell their trophies now as its all over.
Certainly true today, two safety cars to let him close the gap and change a front wing without losing much time. He did drive well though.
Classic Kimi "leave me alone I know what I'm doing" whilst been given information followed with an impatient "yes yes yes" when being given a hurry up
Lewis has matured massively this season and seems to have made the right decision leaving a bit of a shambolic McLaren team. Didn't seem fazed at all to suffer yet another mechanical failure whilst totally bossing the race. I imagine he's relieved to be getting away to new challenge. He is too good for the current McLaren team.
Great race though
Can't agree that 'Lewis has matured massively this season' - if anything he has regressed. It was only a few races ago that he threw his toys out of his pram and posted highly confidential technical team data on the internet (which is treason in F1) and only a short time after that gaff he slagged off his team mate Jenson Button for supposedly 'unfollowing him on Twitter' which was complete bollox. Could also mention his decision to leave McLaren. Not the actions of a great World Champion, more like a petulant teenager.
However I do accept that McLaren have failed to provide him with a reliable car (yet again today) with which to fight for the Championship, so can partly understand his decision to leave and will be interested to see if he shows more patience with an uncompetitive Mercedes next year while they prepare for the new engine regs in 2014.
Lewis was a precious breath of fresh air when he came into F1 and his rampant pole position this weekend underlines his special talent but he really ought to have at least one more championship to his name, so I really hope he gets his act together soon.
The maturity comment was referring to his driving, he hasn't made any big mistakes on the track, except arguably not moving over for kamikaze Maldonado when his tyres had gone whilst 3rd (?) just before the end earlier in the season. He has had as much bad luck as SV has had good. I can't dispute that he has not matured off track though.
He has had the same number of poles as Vettel but has been let down by an unreliable car,and a number of pit and tactical cock ups. He hasn't benefited from safety cars and mechanical reliability. His driving cannot be faulted this season IMO.
Choosing to leave McLaren looks a better decision with every race.
Yes I would agree that McLaren seem to have lost that 'aura' where everything about them for many years was class and most other teams aspired to. This year the car has only been really competitive at times but then they have been let down by poor pitwork or reliability plus the odd mishap on track. They don't seem to be able to get every element right at the same time. Having said that it is still a leap of faith for Lewis to go to Mercedes who are even a shadow of McLaren at the moment. I think they must have sold Lewis a very persuasive vision for 2014.
Vettel has definitely inherited Schumacher's old invincibility and good fortune, no matter what happens he mainly comes up smelling of roses. We really need Lewis, Kimi, Alonso and Jenson to be competitive next year otherwise it could be too predictable just like it was for Schuey and made F1 boring for several years.
Oh the irony if McLaren come up with the top car and engine package deal for 2014. Yes they are parting company with Mercedes and I read they may be reforming the highly successful partnership they had with Honda which may be a very shrewd move.
Maybe Lewis had inside knowledge of that but wasn't enough to heal the rift he has with McLaren - plus his long term allegiance has really been with Mercedes too, so not such a surprise that he has followed them after all? We will see.