Sebastian Vettel 2010 World Champion As Ferrari Lets Fernando Alonso Down

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Published: November 14, 2010

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Anyone who was foolish enough to write a script for the finale of the 2010 Formula One season would have been sorely disappointed with how the players treated their script.

After qualifying more or less went the way everyone expected—with the exception of Mark Webber’s failure to outpace championship rival, Fernando Alonso—the race delivered surprises, disappointment and a few moments that left everyone scratching their heads.

The contenders all got off the line safely but were quickly gathered up by the safety car after Vitantonio Liuzzi’s Force India car tried to mate with Michael Schumacher’s Mercedes. While the stewards threw a bucket of cold water over the cars, a handful of drivers crucially came in to get their pit stop out of the way.

This was to prove a pivotal move, and by not following them in Webber missed his last opportunity to put himself in a position to win the championship.

Webber’s weekend is difficult to comprehend. In practice session three, Webber was one-tenth of a second behind his teammate, in qualifying he was a half-second behind and in the race, he was even further off the pace. Conspiracy theorists might just have a case for suggesting that Red Bull knobbled his car.

Ferrari, after the elation of out-qualifying Webber, made one of the biggest tactical blunders of the season. By choosing to bring Felipe Massa and Alonso in early to cover Webber, they completely missed the fact that they would send the championship leader out behind Vitaly Petrov and Nico Rosberg.

Both of these drivers had pitted during the safety car period and therefore stood between Alonso and the crucial fourth place that he needed to win his third championship.

Lewis Hamilton’s championship chances all but evaporated when Sebastian Vettel beat him to the first corner, and then he came out behind Robert Kubica in the Renault and languished, unab...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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