Sebastian Vettel’s Screw-Up Lost in Ferrari Furore at Hockenheim

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Published: July 26, 2010

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Sebastian Vettel is a slow learner. For the second race in a row, he failed to capitalize on his pole position. He is too focused on stopping the driver in position two from getting to the corner instead of on driving his own race.

Okay, he may not have been able to win the race given his fuel problems, but this is the fifth time he has failed to capitalize on his pole position this year.

Worse still, he has failed to maintain his advantage even into the first corner, being beaten to the corner by Red Bull teammate Mark Webber on two occasions—China and Great Britain—and by Fernando Alonso in Germany. Alonso also beat him to the first corner in China, but he started well before anyone else.

Vettel approaches the start of a race expecting to be beaten off the line. He sets his car up at an angle, and his first move is always an attempt to squeeze the second place starter into the wall. Rather than taking advantage of being on the high grip side of the track, he moves off the racing line to try to cover a corner that he hasn’t even reached.

The advantage that the clean side of the track affords a driver was emphasized by the brilliant drive off the line by Felipe Massa in Germany. Massa drove the track normally and passed both Alonso and Vettel before comfortably cruising around the first corner in the lead.

He even had time to do a bit of off-roading before driving himself into a team orders controversy that threatens to turn into another nasty FIA bun fight.

This brings us neatly to the other dumb move of the weekend and helps us neatly forget Vettel's incompetence.

Despite comfortably holding his lead, Massa was ordered to allow Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso to pass him and go on to win the race.

Massa, understandably, was somewhat unimpressed with the team’s orders and allowed the pass to occur in the most blatant way possible to guarantee St...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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