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  1. F2003-GA

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    Former Renault Formula 1 boss Flavio Briatore has voiced his suspicions that Red Bull duo Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel may not be getting equal treatment this year.

    Briatore, who is Webber's manager, believes that the larger than normal gap between the two drivers at Red Bull during the opening races of this season has raised his concerns.

    "I hope Red Bull is a team big enough to guarantee two equal cars for its drivers, but each time something happens, it happens to Mark," Briatore was quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport.

    "I understand you need some luck, but if the same number comes up over and over again, it means there's a magnet under the roulette [wheel]. I'm not casting doubts over [Red Bull team principal Christian] Horner's intellectual honesty, but what's happening sounds strange.

    "It would be nice for F1 to have Webber do well too, because he would be Vettel's only true challenger, and he would get the support from 90 per cent of the fans. It would be a nice duel like in [Ayrton] Senna's and [Alain] Prost's time, but back then they had equal cars, while the two Red Bulls instead may be equal only in their colours."

    Red Bull Racing has long denied any suggestion of favouritism towards Vettel, and in the last event in Spain it was the German's KERS that failed in qualifying.

    Briatore also suggested that Vettel may not be as good as other drivers on the grid - despite his strong start to the campaign.
     
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  2. Far Out

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    'nuff said ;)
     
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    LOL.

    Well Flav, you'll be telling me next they asked Webber to crash to help Vettel win..
     
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    Nice one, Steve! :D
     
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    Flabbio certainly knows how the F1 game is being played.
     
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    Flav seems to forget last year Vettel had all the problems, and not to mention, Vettel's KERS has malfunctioned a couple times this year too if I remember right. I think Flav is just saying what Webber wants to hear. It's got to be tough to be beaten by someone that much younger in both age and appearence. Everytime I see them next to each other, Vettel still looks very much like a boy.

    Mark
     
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    F1 is a team sport. Someone has to be number 2.
     
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    Really ?! I am just shocked at this new finding.

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME[/ame]
     
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    everyone knows red bull favor webber. it's the worst kept secret
     
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    Makes sense to me...

    RBR is sabotaging Webber to keep him slow...
    McLaren is sabotaging Button to keep him slow...
    Mercedes is sabotaging Schumi to keep him slow...
    Ferrari is sabotaging Massa to keep him slow...

    It's obvious. :rolleyes:
     
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    Flabbio will say anything to keep his name in the news...
     
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    I guess that Vettel's KERS has never broke while Webber's worked like in Spain.
     
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    Ha ha. That was a good one. Typical bad loser reaction.
     
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