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Bingo. I was waiting for this. LOL I don't feel Red Bull explicitly "sacrifices" Mark though - just a few questionable strategies here and there. I have no doubt they receive the same car in terms of quality.

I personally think it's a sad state of affairs when a few of the teams routinely feel it's necessary to announce that their driver that finished behind in points the previous year have an equal opportunity going forward. I can think of exactly two teams that do it year after year "bang on schedule" as Balibari puts it - Ferrari and Red Bull; two teams that do it on occasion - McLaren and Lotus.

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It has been close in three of the four seasons, so what do you think?


In terms of speed yes, in terms of reliability? it doesn't stack up, Webber's technical problems are much more consistent. Domenicali suggested Vettel gets the better parts and on the evidence, I wouldn't disagree.

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Not really...

In 2011 there was 134 points difference between Vettel and Webber.
In 2012 the difference was 102 points.

The closest was 2010 where the difference was 14 points. And that is the season where Vettel had lost 3 wins to car problems. In the last 3 years Vettel lost a total of 6 of those to mechanical issues.

Once again, name them please. Third time I'm asking!

And if you're saying Singapore was indeed poor strategy, please indicate what they did wrong (and not speaking from hindsight).

In terms of speed yes, in terms of reliability? it doesn't stack up, Webber's technical problems are much more consistent. Domenicali suggested Vettel gets the better parts and on the evidence, I wouldn't disagree.[/quote]

Yeah, but going on just that evidence, then I'm led to believe that Kimi Raikkonen had inferior parts in terms of reliability to both DC and Montoya, Hamilton with inferior parts to Button, etc. When it comes to the big teams, there is no reason why both drivers do not have top quality (and equal) parts for both cars going into the weekend.

Ashley or Banana Man had an interesting theory about Webber and his KERS issues. Obviously nothing WE can prove, but it was pretty descriptive and sensible nonetheless... a lot more so than other "credible" theories floating around. :p

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