Mark Webber’s honest clarity has been missed from the formula one paddock in 2014.<\/p>\n
Amid the typical PR-speak, the Australian – having left Red Bull and the paddock for semi-retirement and Le Mans – was always relied upon for a blunt assessment.<\/p>\n
On his former teammate Sebastian Vettel’s troubled 2014 season, for instance, Webber told Austrian broadcaster Servus TV this week: “Vettel is having problems with the new rules.<\/p>\n
“He has improved, but from the first race you could see he was making many mistakes,” Webber added.<\/p>\n
But Vettel himself, whilst not denying he made mistakes, thinks bad reliability has been the headline of his struggle in 2014.<\/p>\n
At Spa, he even said it is “unfair” to directly compare him with Daniel Ricciardo this year, because the Australian has had a clear run with the sister RB10.<\/p>\n
Now, Vettel tells German television RTL: “People see the raw result and have their opinion.<\/p>\n
“But they don’t always see what is really going on.<\/p>\n
“We have had so many technical problems; burned up so many engines and wasted many components.<\/p>\n
“Daniel has performed very strongly, there is no question,” said the four-time world champion.<\/p>\n
“But I think the races he won, we would have also been able to win if things had gone a bit differently.”<\/p>\n
For that reason, he said he is not beginning to question his own talent.<\/p>\n
“It’s not as if you forget how to drive over a winter and suddenly start doing everything wrong instead of everything right,” said Vettel.<\/p>\n
“The hunger is still there and I think we have a good chance to fight for the world championship if we position ourselves better.”<\/p>\n
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