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Thank you for this! Well Lewis did grew as a driver, they all do. But the problem is the team. Ferrari lacks support and that’s not the only thing. Because of this, it’s like “having a stressfull and bad day at the office”, which then leads to mistakes comming from both drivers and the team. But the driving isn’t the only thing I look into. Personallity is another factor for me. And that’s the point where Seb shines in.These might help you a bit:
2nd one is really interesting. He beat all those guys in close racing with exacly the same cars. I hope we will witness Lewis vs Seb in the RoC some day. No issues, no motor vs motor, not any factor. Just PURE drivingstyle and Racing!
agreed on the internetcomments. There are some superminds in here though. We don’t know the secret of redbull and I want to stay it that way. If we knew it, then many people’s would’ve copied it… On the other side, I think many engeneers at other teams already know the secret.
anyway how, the car has extreme downforce and seb knows it. That’s why he can play with it. That’s why he knows that he can sometimes slam in the accelaration-pedal early without even losing the rear. I did hear martin say 1 time “And he’s straight on that KERS button, he’s still jogging the thing through the apaxes of 9 and 10” in Turkey…
Isn’t the setup suppose to be personalised? Webber is a calm racingdriver in terms of qualy. He doesn’t use those kerbs as aggressive as seb does. So I think taking sebs setup is sometimes wrong…
You got me on that point though. Maybe time will tell…
Euhm, I have my concerns in here. More and more forums are talking about this, and actually, if Martin Whitemarsh or Stafano goes onto the internet and search for these sorts of things, then he finds these kinde of threads which means we’re discussing it, and if someone with a better mind then newey says that you should change the car at some points, then everyone sees that comment on the internet. You know what I’m saying?
Anyway, it could be a combination of both, vettel beinga talented and unique expert at qualy and the car being so stable. I think the car has a lil’ stability because seb drove half of the brazillian lap with DRS on.
Fact is that he also knows how the car works and that he knows how to handle it AND take it onto the limit as well. And also, seb has that unique ability to always pic the right setup between 100ths of others just like schumacher had, just like Alonso had, just like senna had, and just like, whomever is a legend, had…
nah, I “think” I get money to buy 1 game for xmass. so steeringwheel is a no-go for me, also I don’t have enough space for the steering wheel, I have a desk but it’s in glass and it moves too quickly…
1. to see the ultimate podium, vettel kimi and schumacher.
2. vettel winning it all for the 3rd time at the verry last race WITH a fight between webber who was already 1st and vettel for the WDC. (webber having won the wdc is also a dream, cause he earns it)
3. RBR winning the WCC for the 3rd time…
4. vettel-webber fights just like hamilton-button fights
5. The 1st DRS-zone longer AND the 2nd DRS zone needs to be gone…Listen to this. I was at a board games evening (1 of my friends is playing there) and I came to know that someone was interested in F1 there too. So I said that I am a seb fan, he was a neutral F1 fan and he said to me “it’s remarkable what this youngman does.”
He then said something that caught my thought, he said “He’s not only having poles and wins, he’s also ‘has the ability’, like schumacher and alonso (and senna ofcourse), to actually ‘make’ the car quicker. He has hundreds of options and he just picks 1 cause he knows that that choice is going to suit for himself as well as for the track.”. He sometimes fails, that’s why F1 drivers mostly say that they were not comfortable with the car. He also said “It’s actually hamilton who saw this from alonso and that’s why he’s so good”
I’m open minded about this theory as well as any other theory but this one seems VERRY logical… I now believe for 99.9% that he could do it.
Allthough this left me a question. IF all of this is truye, how come then that Alonso isn’t the world champion? Maybe because he has a car now which may well be limited. So Alonso as well as his car aren’t always 100%, you know what I’m saying?
What do you guys think?
@raymondu: you’re right, it does take quite an effort to do that 1 specific lap. And like all drivers said SO many times, “it all has to come together.” I think it’s actually a small story. If a piece is missing the story isn’t finished. In other words, if something goes wrong (a steeringmistake or too much accelaration into the corner, or just too less accelaration…). depending on how much time you lost, you’ll not be on pole. The car has to be fueled for 2 or 3 rounds. Because of that, the car is light which is why the car has more grip, but with an F1 car, you’ll easaly spin around if you don’t know how it works. So really it’s just between you (fitness, thoughts need to be clear, concentration) and your car (weight, balance of the car without any problems, you need to feel good in the car, have thrust and faith in it)
But wait, that’s not all of it. There is something that made me like seb. He has a certain commitment to the polelap. He knows that he can accelarate early in the corners with this car. He does that while using every cm of the track, kerb to kerb AND even with KERS and DRS. I remember martin brundle saying: “and he’s straight onto that KERS button, he’s still jogging the thing through the apaxes of 9 and 10!” at sebs polelap at the turkish gp. I remember martin brundle saying: “that’s a sensational lap!” at the brazillian gp as well as australia and the excitements he had when seb had pole. Seb was also always the last man to give a shot for pole. And then there was china where DC said that seb did the fastest ever lap around this circuit in qualy.
With the dominant season he has had now including overtakings, he surely has a verry good shot at winning multiple times with a car that isn’t the best one… What hamilton/button can do, seb can do! he is the polemaster after all… and besides all this, what was alonso actually thinking? Sounds to me as if he was thinking about himself doing this all the time. What makes him so sure of being capable of doing this? he was 2 times world champion but also in the best car back then… If alonso would win without having the best car, well then why couldn’t he passed petrov who was in the slower car?
monaco 5th, Canada 8th, Germany 8th, Valencia 5th, Belgium (my home GP which is 1 of the most difficult circuits to handle) 5th, Italy obviously 1st, Singapore (also 1 of the most difficult circuits + the 1st time they raced there) 5th, Japan 6th, China 9th and finally Brazil (with the difficult G-forces) 4th
And don’t forget the 2009 season. He didn’t had the best car. Brawn GP had the best car. And yet still he won 4 times and had 4 polepositions… Ok so maybe brawn gp AND redbull had the best cars but for me, there can only be 1 best car.
Also note that he is still young, so I believe in it, I believe that he can do it in the future…
@todfod I think you need to see the total package. I think he ended up 4th, 5th and/or 6th a couple of times with the torro rosso in that year… that’s why 99% is already convinced he can do it. The 1% which is missing is because it’s still not proven yet that he can do it.
