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      01-14-2019, 03:17 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by five_timer View Post
Again, I must point out that Vettel has crushed his Ferrari teammate for each of his 4 years with the team. And for the past 2 years, he's even outscored the 2nd Mercedes. How does that make him done?

I put VET in the same league as Alonso. Each often got significantly more out of an inferior car than their teammate. I would speculate that if a Vettel-caliber driver was not at Ferrari, the team would not have been in the points lead at any time during any recent season. Really, it's a glass half-full/half-empty thing.

But in reference to the question posed by this thread, I welcome the competition from LeClerc, and if he ends up being the faster driver, then good for him. I was hoping the same from Bottas, but it hasn't happened.

Any guy who can survive a fatal plane wreck with his fiancee, then dump her, has got to be a wild man.
I don't put him in the same league as Alonso in any respect. The mistakes he's made over the last two years have been career defining. Vettel loses his cool far too often and has demonstrated that his race craft is lacking. His close quarters driving is clumsy and ineffective.
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