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Hamilton makes Vettel look like a mentally fragile snowflake. His wheel to wheel racecraft is not worthy of Ferrari's #1 seat. Bring back Alonso, he has the mental fortitude to take it to Hamilton better than Vettel. Pairing Leclerc with a more experienced driver than someone like Norris will be better for Ferrari's short-term gain and allow more development for Charles who may need a 1-2 years with Ferrari to consistently challenge for podiums.
I have to say, Seb is not covering himself in glory, he’s let Charles get under his skin already instead of embracing the guy and helping him, which has automatically made Charles think along the lines of racing him hard, rather than seeing him as a mentor. He panics when Elton is around these days, while no one else, including Charles, does. I have to agree that maybe he needs to go now, or at least take a sabbatical, and there is no one I’d rather see in the second seat than Alonso, especially the new Alonso 2.0 that we’ve had the last few years.
And I'm glad the team let Charles pass Vettel. Showed his maturity unlike Vercrashen did in his first 2 or 3 years.
Actually, from the Streamable clip posted by Joe in the race thread, the team told him to not pass for 2 (!!) laps but Leclerc drove right past at his first chance. The team are in denial about Vettel and they better wake up or it will cost them another chance at a championship. The mechanics though look to have figured out who the can rest their hopes on, based on their reactions after pole and the race. Lando looks the real deal (wonder how he would have done in a Ferrari yesterday) but obviously tied up. They missed signing RIC. GIO looks like a bust, sadly. ALO, yeah he'll drive anything these days but also tied up and as soon as he gets a whiff of a win will not support Leclerc. At this point, I'd even gamble on Wehrlein, who they have signed up for sim work, unless Vettel does something special in China.
Vettel's contract is up this year isn't it? Ricciardo is tied up for 2 years. A shame. Alonso won't play ball with Leclerc. Wehrlein is ****. Kimi....would a swap be completely out of order until end 2020 and then get Ricciardo in? He plays ball and sure as hell doesn't make the stupid mistakes Seb has done over the last couple of years. Everyone is allowed a mistake or two but this is getting ridiculous. I've been a fan of Vettel for a long time but it's getting very hard to defend him. Verstappen would be great, but I don't know how his contract is structured and how slow the Red Bull has to be for him to drop out of the contract. For sure the car isn't up to it at the moment and Verstappen just about drags the thing to where it is right now. When he struggles keeping up with Bottas you know how bad the car is...
I posted this on March 19: Is it just me or does Vettel already look like he is broken? He couldn't catch MB or RB and had to have the team keep LEC from passing him in the final stages of the race. It doesn't look like it is going to be a very happy year for Ferrari unless LEC begins to out-qualify Vettel. Nothing has changed.
SEb is much better than what he's showing, but i guess his head is not in the right place , i agree that Ricci/Charles would be a great solution.
He is. Vettel has it in him but for whatever reason he quite simply is not delivering. He's making the same stupid mistakes he made early in his career. He is far better than he's showing the last 2 years. Everyone makes mistakes and that's fine, but there's a limit on how many you can really make in a short amount of time. Whatever the reason is, he is not in the right headspace. 2011-2013 he was unbeatable. He was supremely confident and got the most out of that car that was possible.
He wants it too badly and now that there is Charles does not making it more easy to him...I think he sees his hopes dashed..
Holy ****, we're two races in. Vettel will be fine, he made a pretty good pass on Hamilton a few laps before Hamilton got him back so it's not like he can't race. I wouldn't start calling for his head unless it turns into a pattern. The worst he did last year was Germany and this was not that level of mistake. And Leclerc had one good race and all of a sudden he's the savior? He was out qualified last race and the only reason he caught Vettel in the race is that Ferrari screwed the strategy and pitted Vettel way too early, at that point he was way ahead and Leclerc was nowhere. This race they screwed Leclerc's car so as far as it goes they're equal. They have had two good results screwed by Ferrari themselves. Without the stupid way too early pit in Australia, Vettel gets 3rd and without the misfire here we get a win. I thought Binotto was supposed to fix these unforced errors, but here we are again with two Ferrari team errors in two races. The drivers aren't the issue here. That should be obvious.
Vettel is over the hill. Ever since his 4th title he has been going backwards, made lots of mistakes and cost Ferrari the title last year and if they keep him as #1 he'll loose it for them again this year. Give Leclerc #1 status now. Now more Melbourne team orders.
Just one mistake this year guys. dont bury him so fast. He was man enough to admit his mistake. let#s see.
Of course the number of mistakes this year is low. The season just started. Duh! You need to look at the string of mistakes which goes back to last season and the previous one. He is consistently throwing secured points into the trash bin.
Schumacher allowed himself one mistake a year. Vettel just used up his. If it was Vettel's first spin in a long time I couldn't have cared less. Frustrated? Of course, but forgivable. But he's had a series of spins in very recent history, it's not acceptable.
Given that statistics I'm the best of all of them: I make no mistakes in an F1. Then again it has been years since I drove one....
