chinki wrote:
GingerFurball wrote:
RunningMan wrote:
In a season of 20 races. You cannot point your finger at one thing,
Ferrari shot themselves in the foot by designing a poor car to start with.
Red Bull's strategy call to pit Vettel at Canada got them a 4-point swing which has proven to be crucial.
In fact if Vettel had not pitted that day, unlike Alonso he would have been gobbled up by the mid field and he may have even ended outside the points. Alonso was quite smug that day in Canada even though he lost positions rooting how proud he was to stay out, I am sure he would be having nightmares right now about that race and how the call he made has come to bite him for at least another year.
I don't know what the OP meant, but this is how i see it: That Ferrari raced 20 races, had no car failures, and only one strategy fail; which I consider to be not leaving Alonso out for another 1 or 2 laps at Monaco (if you revisit the VT on that one, you'll notice how Fernando closes the gap up and then purposely sits 1.8 seconds behind to save his tyres from aero degradation). This is a minute discrepancy in the wider light of team decisions up and down the paddock.
In Canada they said that the tyres were not then a fully known entity, and that they "flipped the coin in the air" in search of a win. RB pursued the same possibility, and it proved not to be a possibility. This I do not consider to be a missed trick. I was quite aware at the time, (given the unstable nature of the racing/championship) that a Ferrari win here would go a long way to winning the WC, and in retrospect, it sure would have.
You can mention all the if's and but's about Red Bull, but the lions share of their misfortune has been within their realm of responsibility kers/alternators/driver errors (Hamilton/Macca also re: reliability, pit-stop chaos etc.), Ferrari's has not.
In light of Ferrari's near spotless season, its not going too far to point out that from what happened at the circuits all year, the only real notable point worth discussing was the Destruction Derby at Spa....
A fair comment IMO