Schuttelberg wrote: ↑09 Jul 2020, 23:11
I think the approach from Vettel is correct. I don't really think there's any need to rush. Having followed him from his beginning, I know he wouldn't want to just participate. If the case was so, he would have dropped such hints at Maranello and taken a nice pay along with all the perks of being in red. Ferrari has a short term history of being impatient with the world champions and a lack of impatience with their bridesmaids, so to speak.
The first thing Sebastian needs to do is to finish this season well. He might not get a podium and that's fine but he must restore some faith in the paddock and even fans like me for that matter that he has the consistency needed to be a champion again. F1 is fickle and I don't really care if he's scrapping for 10th but he must get the max out of it. To sight an example, Button in his retirement year.
From a RBR point of view, it's bananas to even entertain thoughts of dropping Albon to the junior squad. He's started the season with a bang and he really had the first race won. The media is so full of sh!t that they only look at results. Bottas' pace in the race was awful to be honest and in a 'normal' race he would have been P3 and if he had one of his days even P4. But, on paper he won so the media is all 3.0
Alex deserves a chance and Max is the best driver on the grid in terms of absolute package (includes age factor in the sense he will be around for 10 years min). Vettel will only be an insurance policy for RedBull and for any top running team right now. It's sad, but it is what it is.
It's not like Seb is scot free at Ferrari though.
He has caused most mayhem of any Ferrari drivers in the past decades, which cost them lots of points,
and might even have cost them potential championships. He also 'damaged' relations between Ferrari and FIA with his Charlie Whiting outings and his famous charge into Hamilton at Baku.
Vettel caused enough to have Ferrari concider his position the way they did,
something Raikkonen never actually did in such fashion, and if we look at Raikkonen, Ferrari has been pretty 'loyal' there when they could have went a gazillion of directions instead.
Vettel is aging and his quality is 'fading'. He hasn't got too much to slam on the table. Even Mercedes has not went for the option, which is something interesting to say just as well. Vettel left RBR in the cold, not unlike Rosberg did to Mercedes. Vettel has already started the season bad when Charles actually ended up P2. At a time where it never has been any more important for a Ferrari driver to wring the most out of a car, Vettel once again comes short, he doesn't really work that well under pressure.
