Yeah, in the first half Alonso was in the dirty air of other drivers. he was very quick in the end but I wonder why he said "I give up". Never heard anything like that from Alonso. I assume that his tyres had worn out, hence the words.
Hang on sunshine. No one's blaming Vettel for winning the race. We're just saying that that's the only way he has proved that he can win. It's been proven time and time again this season.
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To date, Vettel has not shown this ability to recover when he has a below-standard qualifying performance.
Jenson has won 12, qualifying in this order 4,1,1,4,1,1,2,4,5,7,3,2. avg=2.9
Ramon I think it would add to the quality of this debate if you furthered your analysis to cover all podiums achieved by those same drivers during this period. It would add to the statistical reliability of the data.
It is my opinion that while Vettel is a tremendous F1 driver and obviously very successful so far in his career, there are other drivers on the grid that are more talented and better at racing.
OK. Lets just leave it there.
You can't end a topic in a forum :L
Nothing wrong with this opinion, even as a fan of Vettel I am not 100% convinced that he is the best driver (though each race he does something that makes me think he may be the best). Since the cars are not equal it is extremely difficult to rate who is the best and who is not. All we know is that Vettel has done everything he needed to do with his extremely good car. No you don't need to think Vettel is best, just don't go telling us that Vettel has never passed people because we know this to be wrong. In the last several seasons Vettel is just extremely good at qualifying hence the reason why he starts in front of most of the other competition and never needs to pass them to win.