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Dave said:
Not trying to anger the Vettel fans, but Schumacher had more skill and a bit more self confidence in that ability.

Seb has weaknesses in his driving (especially when he’s not in the lead) that Schumacher didn’t.
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Seb has taken most of his victories from the front row. He's more a prost than a senna in his driving style IMO. If the car is to his liking, he's untouchable, if not, he doesn't appear to adapt as well as a Hamilton, Senna or Schumacher might IMO.
 
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Fox1 said:
True. We've seen Schumacher go through this same phase against Hakkinen but he had the support of CEO and co-driver.

How do we still have Singapore on the F1 calendar and Malaysia no more? Such a boring track, even Baku and Sochi sees better races.
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Ugh...

They need to bring some classic tracks to F1


An adjustment on the long straight - don't do the hairpin at the end, extend it and then back with an extra fast corner.
 
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mubeend said:
Can't argue with their sentiment though. This track needs to go. Boring af.
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There’ve been far worse races in recent times, Ferrari only label it boring because they were tipped to be the favourites and ended up doing badly.

There isn’t a good word for them on Twitter about the tweet, not even from Ferrari fans.

Fans are starting to call for Vettel and Arrivabene to go.
 
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Agreed about worse races, just that this track appears to make passing and following harder even than at monaco. We need proper racing tracks. Not just meeting spots.
 
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Last weekend i called for Kimi to be replaced by Max or Le Clerc. Maybe i should send in a suggestion for Vettel to be replaced.

Ferrari can just pinch a team boss from AF Corsa who have some of the best strategists in WEC. I don't know why they haven't gone this route when Alonso imploded the team?
 
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The Singapore GP should go. Pirelli have made the situation worse by bringing in 3 tyre choices per GP.
 
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Fox1 said:
True. We've seen Schumacher go through this same phase against Hakkinen but he had the support of CEO and co-driver.
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''Defeat'' was not a word Michael was familiar with. He possessed extreme self-belief bordering on arrogance. If he couldn't beat you it was the car, not him. Just look at what he done with the 1996 Ferrari. That car had no business winning races but he won three. The 1997 and 1998 Ferraris were also vastly inferior to the Williams and McLaren in those respective seasons and yet Michael pushed Villeneuve and Hakkinen for the title.

More importantly though, he was also a team leader, and this is where both Fernando and Seb have fallen short at Ferrari.
 
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Was waiting for the promised action in the last 1/4 of the race....still waiting.
 
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satanboy said:
Was waiting for the promised action in the last 1/4 of the race....still waiting.
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yeah, the hype was real but alas no delivery, presenters really know how to generate false hope, when you listen to them critically, you catch them a few time hyping things that you know they know there is no chance of
 
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Hamilton makes winning look easy and boring.

Vettel doesnt have the skills to keep up.
 
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Latest Photo of Sebastian Vettel taken after the race:

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Naks said:
I think we can all agree that he threw away any chance at the title in Monza, same as he did in Singapore last year
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yeah he did but a Singapore win would have given him a glimmer of hope if he finished the season strongly.

I also think Ferrari Strategy call to bring him in was questionable especially as they put him back in traffic.
 
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