Quote Originally Posted by dj_bytedisaster View Post
Vettel has never made a secret of it that he has trouble adapting to the new cars. That is first not helped by the fact that he dislikes them with a passion. He's still young, but people forget that he started out as a test driver in the V10 era. Now he has a V6 blowdryer in the back. It's not that easy to motivate yourself to adapt to something you hate. In fact if it wasn't for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to drive for the team he always wanted to drive for - Ferrari - I could actually imagine him walking away from F1.
I get this, but some may think if Seb is the best driver in F1 he should be able to get on with it anyway, like Alonso would probably be able to.

The next piece in the puzzle is the new brake-by-wire system etc...
Well this is probably a point, but then I remember Hamilton struggled to adapt to brakes in his new team last season, but he wasn't given leeway and was slammed as excuses.

The third piece in the puzzle is utter lack of support from the team, which suffers from 'shiny object syndrome'. Dan came in from Toro Rosso, quite used to cars with utter lack of downforce... For Vettel it was a massive step back that needed acclimatisation. Yet that time wasn't given to him... RB were the only top team not to run both their drivers in that test.

...RB have systematically demoralized him, the same way they did with Webber.
I'm yet to be convinced this has happened, certainly to this extent. I don't know why Horner and Marko would suddenly fall out of love with Seb. If they are getting behind Ricciardo, it may just simply be he has managed to get the points and have the best shot. I'm open but at the moment, it could be seen that a massive excuse is just being made...

As for Webber, it would now have to be acknowledged that the gap between him and Vettel was not the truth, since Webber certainly didn't have the love of Horner and co.



Hopefully Vettel will share his feelings of 2014 at some point in the future and we'll see what to make of it.