Quote Originally Posted by zako85 View Post
Or may be the opposite was true? Perhaps Vettel pushed the car above and beyond its capabilities in 2010 and 2012 if you happen to judge the car performance by what Webber did with it? People who argued that Alonso drove his Ferraris beyond what they were meant to do often insisted on using as Massa's results as the yardstick of where Ferrari should have really finished. Why can't this same argument be applied to Vettel in order to explain how Vettel drove his RBR car so that he extracted the impossible 110% of its possible performance?
First of all, I'm not one of those saying Alonso drove 110% out of any car. In fact, I'm really annoyed by this giving 110% crap generally speaking, so I would never use it. No one's ever driven even 100% of any car so let's just give that a break.

Neither did I see Massa's performance as a yardstick in any way. I've always thought Alonso is much better than Massa so I don't see how Alonso's performance could be evaluated using Massa's as a yardstick (of course, had Alonso finished behind Massa any season then Massa would have been a great yardstick for a sub-par performance).

I didn't rate Webber that high either so I don't see Vettel barely beating him in 2010 as a great performance. If anything I see those years he won the championship easily as him getting closer to his full potential.