Sebastian Vettel on Thursday admitted a dubious weather forecast for the Malaysian grand prix is making him excited, not nervous.<\/p>\n
“Daniel (Ricciardo) showed in Melbourne that the car is fast on a wet track,” the reigning world champion said at hot Sepang.<\/p>\n
Recovering Red Bull, he suggested, needs some help from the skies to catch up with the new best team on the grid.<\/p>\n
“Mercedes is still a step ahead,” admitted the German.<\/p>\n
What Vettel is not at all excited about, however, is the sound of the sport’s new turbo V6 engines.\u00a0 He said sitting in a bar on a Saturday night is more noisy.<\/p>\n
As for the new sound of F1, “It’s shit,” he told reporters in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Vettel said that if he had written the rules, “We’d have a nice V12 in the back of the cars”.<\/p>\n
A fellow world champion, however, didn’t like the sound of all the moaning about the ‘new’ face of formula one.<\/p>\n
He said complaining drivers like Vettel should “Go and race somewhere else if you’re not happy here”.<\/p>\n
According to Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, Felipe Massa also can’t understand why drivers are suddenly complaining about the sound.<\/p>\n
“We have known for years that the V6 with a turbo will not make the same sound as a V8,” said the Brazilian.\u00a0 “So it makes no sense to be upset about it now.”<\/p>\n
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was reserving his judgement completely.<\/p>\n
“If I say now that I think the show was bad (in Melbourne), then I will be accused of being frustrated because I didn’t win,” he said.<\/p>\n
The other buzz words in the Sepang paddock are ‘fuel flow’, as uncertainty surrounds whether Red Bull will risk more disqualifications by once again ignoring the new FIA-supplied sensor.<\/p>\n
Ricciardo, who lost his second place in Melbourne, said: “I trust the team to make the right decisions.”<\/p>\n
And Vettel also backed Red Bull to do the right thing for the team.<\/p>\n
“Of course we are always trying to exploit everything to the limit — but always within the rules,” he said.<\/p>\n
But Spaniard Alonso suggested he cannot understand Red Bull boss Christian Horner’s claim that the accuracy of sensors will be the difference between success and failure.<\/p>\n
“When it comes to incorrect measurements, we are talking about numbers after the decimel point,” said the Ferrari driver.<\/p>\n
“Nobody will win or lose a race (because of fuel flow),” he added.<\/p>\n
Kimi Raikkonen, on the other hand, was taking issue with his own team.<\/p>\n
After Melbourne, Ferrari quoted the Finn as having said the 2014 car’s new brake-by-wire system is “definitely” a major reason he struggled for performance in Australia.<\/p>\n
“Ah, I don’t know where that (quote) came from,” Raikkonen said on Thursday.\u00a0 “It’s not the issue.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong with the system.”<\/p>\n
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