At the beginning of the season I wanted a first time WDC such as Nico Rosberg, I completely ignored Daniel Ricciardo because I did not expect the Red Bull to match Mercedes powered cars. The two worst power units are the Ferrari and the Renault, yet Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo are the two closest rivals to the Mercedes team.
Sebastian Vettel: 2014 Red Bull F1 car just doesn't suit me
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116015
The car does not suit his style as it is not planted on the race track enabling him to accelerate earlier and get out of corners faster because there is no BD/EBD anymore.
Alonso was right. What I do not understand is that he would have had a lot of input into the car, so one wonders why it is not suited to him
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I hold my hands up, I was wrong about Ricciardo. I can imagine Seb thought, yup, he's gonna be my bítch.
Even Horner and the rest of the team are amazed by his approach
Sebastian Vettel seems to be a “one trick pony” but some people believe that he must be better than Fernando Alonso because 4 WDC's are better than 2. Maybe they should pay more attention to the racing rather than the raw stats.
Plenty here will only use the raw stats as their evidence. Hence Seb one if the all time greats. Well maybe the stats say that, 4WDCs large number of poles and race wins etc.
What the stats don't show is the dominance of one car over the others or any of the reasons for that dominance. EBD, flexing wings, traction control etc. etc.
The traction control being a reference to a different generation of course not Seb but the argument holds.
What I actually ponder about is how much pace there actually was in the RedBull cars during that period of dominance.
If someone like Hamilton or Alonso was in it, I would wager we would see similar types of dominance like the current mercs.
I hold my hands up too.
In my opinion I thought Daniel was talented, but I genuinely thought we'd have a repeat of the Vettel/Webber scenario if you know what I mean.
Fair do's - proving to be a cracking driver and definitely a potential WC (maybe not this year but sometime in the near future).
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posted on 26/9/14
At the beginning of the season I wanted a first time WDC such as Nico Rosberg, I completely ignored Daniel Ricciardo because I did not expect the Red Bull to match Mercedes powered cars. The two worst power units are the Ferrari and the Renault, yet Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo are the two closest rivals to the Mercedes team.
Sebastian Vettel: 2014 Red Bull F1 car just doesn't suit me
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116015
posted on 26/9/14
The car does not suit his style as it is not planted on the race track enabling him to accelerate earlier and get out of corners faster because there is no BD/EBD anymore.
Alonso was right. What I do not understand is that he would have had a lot of input into the car, so one wonders why it is not suited to him
posted on 26/9/14
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posted on 26/9/14
I hold my hands up, I was wrong about Ricciardo. I can imagine Seb thought, yup, he's gonna be my bítch.
Even Horner and the rest of the team are amazed by his approach
posted on 26/9/14
Sebastian Vettel seems to be a “one trick pony” but some people believe that he must be better than Fernando Alonso because 4 WDC's are better than 2. Maybe they should pay more attention to the racing rather than the raw stats.
posted on 26/9/14
Plenty here will only use the raw stats as their evidence. Hence Seb one if the all time greats. Well maybe the stats say that, 4WDCs large number of poles and race wins etc.
What the stats don't show is the dominance of one car over the others or any of the reasons for that dominance. EBD, flexing wings, traction control etc. etc.
posted on 26/9/14
The traction control being a reference to a different generation of course not Seb but the argument holds.
posted on 26/9/14
What I actually ponder about is how much pace there actually was in the RedBull cars during that period of dominance.
If someone like Hamilton or Alonso was in it, I would wager we would see similar types of dominance like the current mercs.
posted on 26/9/14
I hold my hands up too.
In my opinion I thought Daniel was talented, but I genuinely thought we'd have a repeat of the Vettel/Webber scenario if you know what I mean.
Fair do's - proving to be a cracking driver and definitely a potential WC (maybe not this year but sometime in the near future).
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