webber has little to lose.Quote:
Originally Posted by skc
For me, it is always better to be the chaser with little to lose rather than be the chasee. I always thought that is why freddie flipped at at Mac, as he thought he was number one, but number two started closing the gap.
Now with Button, who seemed so relaxed and happy after the race, Button may feel not the pressure than Hamilton feels----hence the worried look on hamilton with his obvious mixed emotions that button did not seem to have.
Sebump seems to think he is el numero uno, but begins to feel threatened by his current situ.....but as you point out, me thinks the team does favor Seb...VERY MUCH.
Now on Sunday, I felt the fault clearly belonged to Webber....but after more thought, since F1 seems not to enforce any kind of blocking rule in a race (and that is what Webber was doing), then it is hard to put fault at his feet, for doing what is permitted.
And after looking carefully at the videos, I do not see what others are seeing, a deliberate turn across the nose....instead I see two cars moving very close together, with Seb doing the closing, the tire contact which instantly turns his car into Webber. So I see no basis for blaming vettel.
So if fault were to be found, I would put it on Webber, except he was doing what these rules (or I should say the manner of how the rules are enforced) permit him to do, regardless of my personal feelings as to what the rules should be.
My feeling is that racing is about passing, and not blocking.....but oh well.
At one point, Hamilton and Button appear to bump every so slightly when hamiton was making his last pass...if the area of contact had been the contact surface of the two racing tires, the ensuing accident would have been similar...... :eek:
and once again, the only votes that matter here belong to team red bull, and they have made it clear what they think---and even as to who they favor.
So I guess setting aside what i think the rules should be, :( it is just a racing incident....
But as to team, I already said, that i always gave way in such situs, because it was my hard earned AND NOT NEARLY ENOUGH cash that paid for my stuff.....I did enough damage to my stuff without the assistance of others, so i can see whay the team is pissed, but still, I think the comments clearly show who they love and who they do not....much as it was with hamilton and FA at the mac...
and since webber has so little to lose....i think he will be in the lead in points at the end of the season, unless he has "car problems"...but may be not the WDC.
