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<\/p>\nSebastian Vettel has baulked at claims he will almost certainly stroll to an historic third consecutive drivers’ title in 2012.<\/p>\n
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Some pundits think that, given the 24-year-old’s huge 122-point championship win over McLaren’s Jenson Button this year, it is almost inconceivable his and Red Bull’s advantage will be eroded in the 80 days until Melbourne.<\/p>\n
“We will try (to win again),” the German agreed in an interview with France’s Auto Hebdo.<\/p>\n
“But the beauty of this sport is that before a new season, all the points counters are reset.<\/p>\n
“It is up to Red Bull to build a competitive chassis and Renault to produce a powerful and reliable engine.<\/p>\n
“There is no certainty; nothing is sure about this (success) continuing,” added Vettel.<\/p>\n
He said recently that his meteoric season was the result of hard work that must now continue.<\/p>\n
“All year long (we were) pushing to keep the car at the level that it was,” said Vettel.<\/p>\n
“McLaren were pushing massively and I think at the end we were pretty even.\u00a0 I don’t think that one car really had the edge.”<\/p>\n
Briton Button, Vettel’s title runner-up, doesn’t agree with his rival’s last comment but he does think McLaren can mount a serious challenge next year.<\/p>\n
“It hasn’t been perfect, Red Bull have been quicker than us, more consistent than us,” he said.<\/p>\n
“All round it’s been a reasonable season.\u00a0 We’ve grown as a team together and I think that we have a very good base going into 2012,” added Button.<\/p>\n
The key for McLaren, he thinks, is to have a winter unlike pre-2011, when the team abandoned a complex exhaust system in order to hurriedly copy Red Bull’s approach.<\/p>\n
“It’s wrong to say we could have fought them if we had a better winter,” said the 2009 world champion.\u00a0 “We don’t know that.<\/p>\n
“What we do know is that we didn’t have a very good winter.\u00a0 The guys did a great job of turning it around for the first race but obviously you lose a lot of preparation work,” said Button.<\/p>\n
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