{"id":19496,"date":"2013-10-06T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19496"},"modified":"2013-10-06T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:45:35","slug":"no-end-to-vettels-dominance-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/no-end-to-vettels-dominance-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"No end to Vettel&#8217;s dominance in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s dominance is not likely to suddenly end.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Ross-Brown-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Ross-Brown-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is Mercedes boss Ross Brawn&#8217;s warning ahead of the Korean grand prix, as Red Bull figures hint that Vettel&#8217;s crushing dominance in Singapore might have been exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there are fewer tighter corners to accentuate the traction of the Red Bull in Yeongam, and the times have been closer this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>But ahead of Sunday&#8217;s race, Brawn said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we saw a long run from Sebastian (in practice).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen his true pace yet, but hopefully we won&#8217;t get a repeat of Singapore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Telegraph correspondent Tom Cary, however, thinks only &#8220;a gust of seriously bad luck or a typhoon&#8221; will blow Vettel off course.<\/p>\n<p>Second on the grid is Mercedes&#8217; Lewis Hamilton, and he sounds pessimistic about beating Vettel on the heels of the German&#8217;s crushing dominance in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can imagine it&#8217;s frustrating for the audience,&#8221; the Briton told Germany&#8217;s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a car that gets to the line 30 seconds before the others, and so the viewers aren&#8217;t seeing any real racing or a wheel-to-wheel battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course it&#8217;s boring for them if they know after the start what&#8217;s going to happen,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The only bright spot of Sunday&#8217;s likely Vettel walkover is that it might be the last-ever race at unloved Yeongam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m struggling to think of a worse one of the current lot than Korea,&#8221; admitted McLaren sporting director Sam Michael.<\/p>\n<p>The upside is that the apparent refusal of spectators and sponsors to attend the race is that it is &#8220;the most relaxed weekend of the whole year&#8221;, Mercedes&#8217; Hamilton admitted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here we don&#8217;t really see many people except the two receptionists at my hotel,&#8221; he smiled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s dominance is not likely to suddenly end. That is Mercedes boss Ross Brawn&#8217;s warning ahead of the Korean grand prix, as Red Bull figures hint that Vettel&#8217;s crushing dominance in Singapore might have been exaggerated. Indeed, there are fewer tighter corners to accentuate the traction of the Red Bull in Yeongam, and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,1282,35,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19497,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions\/19497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}