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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Vettel is showing Webber up pretty badly. Webber is good but Vettel seems to have the edge over him consistently. Vettel seems to be growing in confidence and ability. Its a shame, Mark had that great opportunity to win the championship last year and it probably was his one and only chance. I don't think there are too many 2nd chances in Formula 1. That's sport I guess.
Greg.
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Hi Greg,
Vettel at the moment is clearly in a class of his own compared to
everyone else.
However, Mark is currently third in the driver's championship and most of the
other drivers and teams arguably have more to worry about.
The KERS issues continue to plague Red Bull. Mark's KERS died on the way to
the grid in Malaysia, it was not working even on Thursday's practice. Likewise
it worked intermittently for Vettel in Spain and either has not worked or worked
intermittently in most other races.
See
http://www.yallaf1.com/2011/05/26/re...ers-at-monaco/
Case in point, consider the current position of the Ferrari team.
During the Barcelona race, Alonso got an early jump on Mark, who had polled P1,
but after that Mark appeared to be held up by the Ferrari like a motorist
stuck behind someone towing a caravan.
A car made by an energy drink company
being slowed down by one who's company has been making them for 82 years and
is synonymous with the sport. Red Bull's currently leading driver has more than
double the points of the leading Ferrari driver and Red Bull's "number two" driver
has more points than the two-times World Champion leading Ferrari driver and
over three times as many points as the "number two" Ferrari driver.
Other teams must be even more despondent.
I would imagine some of the engineer's in the other teams must be thinking something
along the lines of "heaven help us if Red Bull sort out their KERS issues".
