Originally Posted by Corky Duke:
“Kimi or Alonso would have put up more of a fight and most probably both Red Bulls would have gone off the track. We know that Vettel doesn't like being told what to do and prior to his move on Webber in Malaysia he told the team to get Webber out of the way as he was too slow in Vettel's opinion.
As I said Vettel needs the challenge of someone who is going to challenge him for pole and the race, he has had it quite easy of late to be honest and that's no disrespect to Webber at all.
So if RBR go and get somebody who will push Vettel all the way and some more, will Vettel welcome it or will it be a bitter taste for him when he realises that he is not necessarily the fastest driver at RBR.”
Thing is, Vettel has a nasty habit of attempting moves which rely on the other driver to capitulate.
There's a good quote from Martin Brundle (I think) where he says one of Senna's gifts was the ability to see how things would work out and then he could put himself in a position where it's then up to the other driver to decide whether to yield or to get into a crash.
I suspect Vettel
thinks that's what he's doing but he does it much more clumsily.
He doesn't move into a position that means the other driver will have to decide whether to yield or crash. He makes moves which forces other drivers to avoid him instead.
I can't recall who it was who said it (Schuey or Senna, perhaps?) but somebody once said that if you yield to another driver once then you set a precedent and, from then on, both of those drivers will expect the other to act in the same way in future incidents.
The trouble at RBR is that the status quo has long-since been established and Vettel's ego has been reinforced as a result.
It'd be interesting to see what happens when, with Kimi as a team-mate, Vettel attempts one of his trademark swerves away from the lights and just drives straight into the side of his team-mate and takes both cars out of the race.
Frankly, that should have happened a LONG time ago in order to cure Vettel of that habit.