British Grand Prix 2010, Silverstone Circuit - Race 10/19

Flibster said:
By giving the wing to the person who was fastest in FP3 and currently higher up the drivers championship?

What did you expect? Let the higher placed driver have the slower car as thats fairest on the lower placed driver?
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He's 12 points ahead of Webber, which in 'real money' is about 5 points and this 'gap' is mainly due to the last race. I'd have expected at this point of the season for the team to have left the good wing on the car that didn't have the broken one, not swap them.

If you really don't think the team favour Vettel then I'm shocked, you've obviously been watching F1 for a while so surely you've seen these games before. Isn't there a guy here who works at Red Bull who a couple of years ago basically posted that none of the team rate him?

Red Bull - Gives you Wings (as long as Vettel already has the better one) ;)
 
Wicksta said:
He's 12 points ahead of Webber, which in 'real money' is about 5 points and this 'gap' is mainly due to the last race. I'd have expected at this point of the season for the team to have left the good wing on the car that didn't have the broken one, not swap them.

If you really don't think the team favour Vettel then I'm shocked, you've obviously been watching F1 for a while so surely you've seen these games before. Isn't there a guy here who works at Red Bull who a couple of years ago basically posted that none of the team rate him?

Red Bull - Gives you Wings (as long as Vettel already has the better one) ;)
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no one is saying that he isn't being favoured on this occasion, just that it's the only logical thing to do to give the best chance of winning at least the WDC.
 
I still can't believe that RBR actually really did take the new spec front wing off Webber's car and put it onto Vettel's after Vettel's kerb riding made the first one come unclipped and be damaged in FP3...

Webber had to qualify with the old spec front wing...

If that isn't driver inequality, then what is?
 
What I don't understand as well is that the FIA had a steward in the Mclaren pit in 2007 to ensure driver equality. Why isn't that steward at Red Bull this season after the blatant favouritism shown to Vettel time after time?
 
That's pretty disgusting actually.

From what I heard in the Friday practices Vettel chose not to use the new wing whereas Webber was using it from day one, Webber beat Vettel in FP2 so Vettel thinks "I want some of that" and decides to use it too, Vettel's front wing breaks so they take Webber's away from him even though he (unlike Vettel) hasn't actually done any testing with the old wing at Silverstone.

I've lost what little respect I had remaining for RBR and golden boy Vettel.

I can only hope now that the new front wing has a design flaw resulting in it coming off like Vettel's did, talk about karma. :D
 
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Surely its time for the FIA to put a steward in the garage to ensure equality ala maca 07, these DBR team shenanigans are getting a bit silly.
 
If Vettel crashes and breaks his leg Redbull will sack Webber so he doesn't get more points.

Not bothered about the race tommorow looks like a boring one with the relative speeds, I hope for Vettel in the gravel but think it's unlikely anyone can beat him while they continue to undermine and rip confidence in the team away from webber.
 
There is always a chance however slim that webber will simply ram vettel off the track, pull into the pit, give horner a different type of one finger salute and then simply walk off.
 
Come on guys, who is honestly shocked about what a few of my mates are already calling RedBullWingGate™? It's not as if RBR have come down on Vettel's side over an incident that was clearly his fault.

OH WAIT.

;)

OldCoals said:
They wouldn't have put it on the car if it was going to hamper lap times would they.
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Abso-bloody-lutely.
 
I just really cant understand why horner simply didnt say 'sorry guys the new wing had a unexplained failure, you're both racing the old one'.


seems so simple especially now they are at a track that couldnt have been designed any better for them.
 
dalin80 said:
I just really cant understand why horner simply didnt say 'sorry guys the new wing had a unexplained failure, you're both racing the old one'.


seems so simple especially now they are at a track that couldnt have been designed any better for them.
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Why give both your drivers a disadvantage?
If you've got 1 new wing, let someone use it.

If it gets damaged during the race, then they'll have to switch to the old design, but thats been done before.
 
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