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Originally Posted by Larryp
Always seems to be Mark Webber's car that has the mechanical failures-guess most of the attention is given to Vettel's car.
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Hi Laurie,
After the alleged bias towards Vettel in the previous seasons, I sense Red Bull
are a little more even handed in their treatment of the two drivers these days.
Having said that, they will undoubtedly favor whoever is most likely to deliver them
the driver's championship at any one instant.
Don't forget that Vettel was ordered to stop the car to save the engine with only
5 laps to go at Monza and there was the incident yesterday where the floor was
making contact with the road. So his vehicle is certainly not the gold standard
either.
Red Bull shunned KERS in 2009 as they said it compromised the car's design.
In 2010, I recollect no teams ran with it. In 2011 when it was re-introduced,
Red Bull were new to it and Mark seemed to get more than his fair share
of reliability problems with it. In this current season, it had seemed that they
had sorted out those issues, but yesterday's failure seemed like a throw-back to
the types of over-heating problems they experienced in 2011.