The good news is that Red Bull have started with KERS in two races, and finished without it in four out of four finishes, which gives a bit of hope that either they'll a) stop using it and give us a race as they lose places off the line, or b) carry it and it sometimes fails, making races a bit closer than they otherwise might be.
Still, I don't care. In the past few years we've had excellent championship battles to keep us keen. The races themselves have almost invariably been average or poor. Now if we get excellent, exciting races on 12 out of the 19 or 20 weekends, which we have had even on the two Tilke tracks we've had, then even if that means sacrificing a championship which is decided on the last weekend, I'll still grab that with both hands.
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I don't think RedBull have the same advantage they did last year, as Webber's form has shown.
I'd argue that Red Bull have a
further advantage compared to last year as
evidenced by Webber's form in China.
Webber was the only one of the two Red Bulls to do a similar strategy to the McLarens. He came from 18 seconds back after a few laps (and presumably futher before he pitted - I was just going off what Brundle said), and overtaking some 15 cars (in the pits or on track), only finishing 7 seconds off the leader by the end. While carrying KERS which wasn't working for most of the race.
On that evidence, had Vettel followed the same strategy, he'd have been
way off in the distance.
Vettel was already ahead in Sepang and Melbourne... he did look under a little pressure in Melbourne before the first pit stop, but other than that, he looked like he had everything under control. We had some hope in Sepang when the pack was slowly closing him down, but clearly that was unfounded come the end.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2011 11:23AM by gav.