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Originally Posted by FnFast
WTF is up with Red Bull and Webber???? Car catches on fire literally 30 seconds away from the finish line. Alonso had a great and ballsy race doing 36 laps on one set of tires. And Kimi.... from 13th to 3rd! I think he should stay with Reno instead of moving to Ferrari. I like the underdog stories more.
Congrats to Vettel for a spectacular race. Singapore always brings out the best in F1.
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Originally Posted by cfusionpm
He ruins the spectacle of the sport, he's kind of a jerk, he's a sore loser, and he clearly has absolutely no respect for his teammate or his teams orders if they aren't in his own best interest. He is a whining brat who makes excuses when things don't go his way (like in the beginning of this year) and now that Pirelli have gifted him a free pass to finish 2013 with another title after tire changes, everyone is mad about it. It's as bad as Schumacher's domination of the early 00's, which had its own fair share of questionably legal cars. It's not fun to watch and I feel bad for people who probably spent thousands of dollars and a weeks time off work to see a race decided by the third turn of a 2 hour race. As someone originally planning on attending the USGP in Texas, I'd have boo'd him myself if I were there.
At this point, all the other drivers have thrown in the towel and focused all attention on 2013. The tire change had all-but solidified Vettel's win several races ago and the teams feel like why bother? Ferrari has been fighting an uphill battle and Alonso himself said on the podium when asked about his crazy strategy something like "we aren't in contention for the driver's title, so what did we have to lose?"
Seriously, let's get to 2014 already. Or let's see a magic mystery fire on Vettel's car instead of poor Mark, who has everything in the world bad happen to him.
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i have a theory about the webber car always having problems, ok here goes:
so they have to design the car to webbers weight, so they have about 20kgs of ballast to play with to make vettels car so much better balanced than webbers
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vettel is always up front he doesnt have to fight through the field like webber does each race putting so much more strain on the gear box and engine than vettels and its clear that the red bull cars are designed to lead and not race, everytime vettel has pressure on him and cant just cruise the car falls apart, and because he is better at qualy and starts than webber he doesn't have the extra strain so his engines last the race.