Sebastian Vettel has been warned to watch his manners, according to Germany’s Kolner Express newspaper.<\/p>\n
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After Valencia, where following his retirement the Red Bull driver admitted he suspected a conspiracy, German motor sport association president Hans-Joachim Stuck said Vettel needed to be careful about being cited for “unsportsmanlike conduct”.<\/p>\n
Vettel had suggested the safety car was called onto the Spanish circuit chiefly to cut his huge lead.<\/p>\n
“Sebastian Vettel should learn to be a good loser,” said Stuck.<\/p>\n
The Cologne tabloid Express said Vettel’s theory did not escape the attention of the governing FIA, who have placed the reigning world champion on a sort of unofficial ‘probation’.<\/p>\n
Already in 2012, Vettel is said to have caught Jean Todt’s attention with his “cucumber” insults against backmarker Narain Karthikeyan.<\/p>\n
“We know that, quite often, Vettel speaks roughly after disappointments, which is not a good example,” an unnamed FIA official is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
Manners or not, Jenson Button described Vettel’s qualifying and race pace until his retirement with a failed alternator in Valencia as “scary”.<\/p>\n
McLaren’s Button had been asked about the widespread praise of Fernando Alonso following the Spaniard’s Valencia win, including Lewis Hamilton’s description of the Ferrari driver as “phenomenal”.<\/p>\n
“There’s been a lot of arse-kissing going on lately,” Button told British newspapers.\u00a0 “I don’t know what’s happening.\u00a0 It’s quite strange.”<\/p>\n
The Briton said Vettel, not Alonso, is the really “scary one”.<\/p>\n
“The pace that Sebastian had (in Valencia) was amazing.\u00a0 He was on fire. He had such a massive difference in pace to the rest of the field and we haven’t seen that for a while,” said Button.<\/p>\n
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