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Vettel Unluckiest driver in 2008
Topic Started: May 19 2008, 01:24 PM (260 Views)
willyshafter
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Vettel will hit with a 5 place grid penalty at Monaco because STR are introducing there new car, he final got a finish in Turkey having only completed 2 race with that gearbox Bourdais will not be penalised as he threw his car in the kitty litter

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Rob
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Maybe STR need to put room in their budget to buy Vettel a break....

We need a poor bastard smiley.
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Rob,May 19 2008
02:52 PM
Maybe STR need to put room in their budget to buy Vettel a break....

We need a poor bastard smiley.

<roflmao>
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willyshafter,May 19 2008
02:24 PM
Vettel will hit with a 5 place grid penalty at Monaco because STR are introducing there new car, he final got a finish in Turkey having only completed 2 race with that gearbox Bourdais will not be penalised as he threw his car in the kitty litter

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Aren't they being bloody stupid introducing a new car that will mean an automatic penalty?

Alternatively, aren't the FIA being numbskulls by enforcing the rule in this manner, as it's not like teams will introduce a new chassis at each race to get around the ruling....
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Norbert,May 19 2008
03:49 PM

Alternatively, aren't the FIA being numbskulls by enforcing the rule in this manner, as it's not like teams will introduce a new chassis at each race to get around the ruling....

I bet they would <roflmao>
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Norbert
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Just imagine that - a car purpose built for every track. Not that they don't massively tweek them for every racetrack anyway, of course.... lol
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In fairness, Vettel should take his share of the blame for his first corner crashes. However, these things balance themselves out over the course of the season, so he'll probably get a chance to show what he can do later on this year.
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He was a total passenger in Australia (Button's fault) and Spain (Sutil's fault). I can't remember Bahrain, to be totally honest.

But it's poor planning on STR's part really, they could have introduced the new car when a penalty would not be applied - or at least on a circuit where qualifying isn't as important as it is at Monaco!
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Surely teams should be allowed to plead mitigating circumstances when stuff like this and having to pit under SC happen?
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Yes, for two of the incidents he was blameless. Bahrain I don't think was visible.
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Bahrain was Sutil's fault. On the main footage you can see Sutil plouging into Coulthard, who in turn hit Button who in turn hit Vettel!

I don't think a race has gone by yet without a Force India ramming into someone at the first corner.
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safc_fan89,May 20 2008
05:19 PM
Bahrain I don't think was visible.

That might be why I can't remember it!
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