±±±±±± Formula 1, 2012 Season. ±±±±±

[Bernhard30]

Well done Vettel. Dominant win in the Indian GP. 4 times World Champion.

Plus excellent smokey doughnuts on the pit straight to celebrate...excellent.

[Wardy91-ed30]

Yeah brilliant drive from vettel again. And As said, even better donuts  

[RedRobin]

Seb Vettel's interviews with Lee McKenzie both during the BBC coverage and after on the Red Button were very revealing and I really do not understand anyone hating Vettel.

[AndrewJB]

Im a life long Schui fan and naturally support Seb (liked him since his early days) so im delighted with today.

Interviews were very revealing aswell, hes a very quiet person likes to keep his family life away from the camera (Much like Kimi and Michael)

[Janner_Sy]

Credit where credits due, he hasnt put a foot wrong all season.  Imnot his biggest fan, im a Hamilton fan personally and more recently ive become an Alonso fanboy  but Vettel i becoming the perfect driver. You have to onsider that whilst Adrian Newey is a whizz with F1 Aero design Mark Webber has had the same machinery and even taking into consideration his string of bad luck he rarely competes at the same level as Vettel who has outqualified him every race weekend, has twice the amount of top 5 finishes, looks after tyres better etc etc, so either Mark Webber isnt that good or Vettel is very good.  Id go for the latter tbh.

Also the 4 chamiponships havent all been a foregone conclusion.  2010 and 2012 were decided on the penultimate races of the seasons splitting 1st/2nd place by only a 2-4 points iirc.

Even the commentators are now coming around to Vettel.  They reckon that the only person who could out qualify him as a team mate in the redbull would be hamilton, but they dont think Hamilton would out perform him in the race, and the only driver the think could out rae him would be Alonso, but they dont think he would outqualify him such is the completenes of Vettel as a driver right now.

[MC71]

Im not a Vettel fan but fair play, you can only do what's asked with the machinery at your disposal and he did that and then some.

IMHO as far as being a race car driver with all the car craft with which that entails I think both Hamiltion and Alonso have an edge and given similar machinery to Vettel I wouldn't know where to put my money (and I do like a bet).

Webbers not in the same leauge (and never has or will be) as those 3, he's just been taking up a seat that could have been occupied by a decent driver. Would Vettel have been that far ahead of his teammate had his teammate been Kimi, Lewis of that Spanish bloke?

[Makaveli]

You have to onsider that whilst Adrian Newey is a whizz with F1 Aero design Mark Webber has had the same machinery and even taking into consideration his string of bad luck he rarely competes at the same level as Vettel who has outqualified him every race weekend, has twice the amount of top 5 finishes, looks after tyres better etc etc, so either Mark Webber isnt that good or Vettel is very good.  Id go for the latter tbh.

But do they really have the same machinery? Who knows what is under the body work, lets face it Red Bull Racing have previously given Vettels car upgrades and not Webbers.

Im not a Vettel fan but fair play, you can only do what's asked with the machinery at your disposal and he did that and then some.

[AndrewJB]

Appaently they arent exactly the same under the bonnet due to the size difference of the drivers, i think the KERS kit is in a different place on webbers cars.

But either way either Webber is really really sh1t or Vettel is very good. Being a Vettel fan id go for the later 

[Bernhard30]

Ooooohhh..

Ross Brawn is leaving Mercedes. Team will stick with Wolff/Lowe and Lauda.

Where's he gonna go??

[wigit]

He has been linked with roles running Honda's new F1 programme when the Japanese manufacturer returns to the sport in 2015 as engine partner to McLaren, as well as to a position with governing body the FIA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24725406

If i was Ron Dennis I would be on the blower, he is just what Maclaren need

[Janner_Sy]

I agree.  Drop Whitmarsh, insert Brawn

[AndrewJB]

Ooooohhh..

Ross Brawn is leaving Mercedes. Team will stick with Wolff/Lowe and Lauda.

Where's he gonna go??

I've heard that Massa looks likely to join Williams taking Smedley with him

Brawn to Williams aswell?

[MC71]

With Brawn gone (and if he goes to McLaren) I give it just 1 season before Hamilton goes back to Macca I reckon.  

[RedRobin]

With Brawn gone (and if he goes to McLaren) I give it just 1 season before Hamilton goes back to Macca I reckon.  

....I think it will depend entirely on how Lewis Hamilton feels about his 2014 season with Mercedes. Would you go back to an ex girlfriend? - I wouldn't!  

Kimi Raikkonen has though, but he's a strange fella anyway.

[Hedge]

With Brawn gone (and if he goes to McLaren) I give it just 1 season before Hamilton goes back to Macca I reckon. 

....I think it will depend entirely on how Lewis Hamilton feels about his 2014 season with Mercedes. Would you go back to an ex girlfriend? - I wouldn't! 

Kimi Raikkonen has though, but he's a strange fella anyway.

Depends on the benefits package and whether she can suck-start a Harley Davidson.