LionKing wrote:Spacepace wrote:There was times in the past Webber was beating Vettel on points and on pure pace(2010 and early this year). Then suddenly the cars direction in development changes and Vettel is out pacing Webber. Vettel likes a car he can throw around but not having to worry about the rear end going out. My other point was how many times his Kers miraculously failed in qualifying and gearboxes were failing. My point here is Marko is only their to give Vettel the biggest advantage he can. In doing so he makes it very hard to like Vettel when he defends him like he's his mother.
The only time you see a smile out of these old grouch is when Vettel gets pole or is on the podium. I would very much appreciate it if FOM would just not film this idiot.
Even when the car was bad at the beginning of 2012, Vettel was often the faster driver in races. He was the one who took the fight to McLaren in Austalia (first podium of RBR), faster at wet Malaysia, first win of RBR at Bahrain, etc. Webber did
relatively better in qualy than his previous performance. In first half of 2012 it was 5-5 in qualy, much better than 4-1 ratio he has been cumulatively outqualified before.
In 2010 Webber was thorughly outraced apart from a few races too. Only reliability issues prevented Vettel making a hat trick of the first three races. As I said Vettel has been better than Webber pre DD-post DD, pre EBD, post EBD.
Recap of 2010. There were 19 races in 2010:
Vettel and Webber have both finished together in 14 of 19 races. Vettel has beaten Webber in 10 of those and Webber in 4. One of those 4 races was Hungary, when Vettel got a penalty under SF trying to help his teammate. Webber won the race and Vettel finished 3rd there. Webber was genuinely better than Vettel in Spain and Monaco, Silverstone...
5 remaining races:
Korea 2010 : Vettel retires from lead with engine failure close to the end of the race. Webber doesn't last long in wet and crashes at the beginn...
Australia 2010: Vettel DNFs with mechanical problem from the lead.
Valencia 2010: Vettel wins while Webber crashes into Kovalainen while he was out of point scoring positions.
Turkey 2010. Vettel DNFs while passing Webber and Webber finishes 3rd.
Spa 2010: Vettel crashes into Button. As usual he was in front of Webber at that time.
Webber gets his 3-4 races in a season over Vettel, usually his favorite tracks. That is about as good as he can do...
