His former promoter, Gerhard Berger sees the Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel as a Formula 1 world champion 2010th In the opinion of his former bosses at Toro Rosso, the 23-year-old ahead of his teammate Mark Webber as the best chance of the title, although he is after twelve of the 19 World Championship races with ten points behind the leading Australians only in third place overall. “With Sebastian Webber and Red Bull has a great driver line. Both can win races and be world champion. I see Vettel at an advantage because he drives a constant,” says Berger the ‘Sport Bild’.

Vettel was recently in Budapest by its own fault as he let on restart after a safety car period, too much distance and it conceded a drive-through penalty, missed taking over the championship lead. “The current events are a learning phase, which does him good and make is even stronger,” says the former Formula 1 driver, was celebrated under his leadership in 2008 in Monza, Vettel Toro Rosso its first victory.
The Austrians see Vettel in extraordinary abilities: “Sebastian is incredibly intelligent and as precisely as Ayrton Senna. He is always very focused, but also constructive. This draws him even from a young age,” says Berger, but also Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg praises, claiming at the silver arrows against the returning world champion: “Michael Schumacher’s achievements are not bad, his problem is simply Nico Rosberg.” The 25-year-old Schumacher was for the “greatest teammate he ever had. Nico is young, intelligent, and highly concentrated toptrainiert. But unfortunately the car is far from winning.”

A good advice is Berger also yet to Ferrari driver Felipe Massa left that would have in the team orders affair of Hockenheim, as his colleague Fernando Alonso too easily overtook an unfortunate role was played: “As a driver I respond to Massa’s body differently. I would have referred openly to my race engineer on the radio that I could indeed pass by Alonso as team orders are banned, but then one must expect a punishment, “says Berger. “I am convinced that under such a radio message that everyone could hear, Massa would have never heard of his box.”

After two double victories in a row, the McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button tip lies in the Formula 1 World Championship, but Sebastian Vettel wants a new car in Valencia back to the place in the sun. “We can be back in front after the next Grand Prix,” said Vettel’s team boss Christian Horner before the Grand Prix of Europe. The bulls want to “keep up with the new R-bay system and without problems in reliability even local hero Fernando Alonso at bay.

The confidence in the camp of Red Bull is based on several pillars. On the one copied from the “inventor” McLaren F-shaft system, which is not satisfactory after a test in the free practice in Istanbul for the first time in the race and used in the simulation is to represent a time savings of three tenths per lap. “We hope an ordinary leap forward,” Horner said in the journal ‘Speedweek’.
was distributed to the other, the team hopes that repeat the transmission problems of Montréal and the defect is not the devil, who followed the team and especially since the start of the season Vettel. “Yes, we had defects, but every mistake only once. We are all the quirks to the bottom left. It’s just incredible bad luck, which happens especially in Sebastian this year, everything,” said Horner.

At the very least, the Heppenheim, which is before the ninth of 19 World Championship races in the championship behind Hamilton (109 pixels), Button (106), Webber (103) and Alonso (94) with 90 points in fifth for Valencia to be transmission probably can not change. The new device has “lost a bit of oil,” Horner gives as reason that Vettel was in the final stage in Canada are clearly lying in fourth place from the gas, “he can use it again in Valencia. Team-mate Webber, who lost by Vettel finished fifth behind the championship leader, had lost in Montréal by an unscheduled gearbox change shortly before the race five starting slots.

The Aussie, who recently was quickly four times in a row in qualifying wants to beat Vettel in Valencia again. “That he can create. For if he was behind it, it’s because of a defect, as in Turkey, due to a driving error like in Montreal or he was beaten only a tenth of a second,” said Horner.

imagine Despite the current benefit, the McLaren drivers not in security: “It’s a surprise that the Red Bulls are not in leadership. They were at every race so fast, but we have more made of it,” said defending champion button that as Webber and Hamilton this year has already celebrated two victories. Hamilton also sees its first championship lead since winning the title in November 2008 “not granted” on.
The Mercedes team with Nico Rosberg and world champion Michael Schumacher, who is the first time since 2004 on an unfamiliar route hopes in Valencia placements at less concerned with the tires and thus better. Meanwhile, Alonso is Ferrari’s home race at a comprehensive revised version of the B-F10 available, which also has an R-bay system and has taken some of the bonds in the aerodynamics of Red Bull. With the new car he was allowed to drive even at short film, Alonso will now shine on home soil – and to inspire both the Spanish and the Italian fans.

“The Italian mentality, and the Spanish are similar, and the habits of life. We both also have the same passion for the race,” Alonso describes in the ‘Sport Bild’, why he feels so comfortable at Ferrari. “We might have to say: There are two grown together, which somehow belong together forever. I have the impression that the people enjoy this combination in the world. Especially in Spain and Italy, the mood is downright enthusiastic about it. It makes me proud.”

Michael Schumacher has denied that his ongoing hobby of semi-professional kart racing is an unnecessary risk.

Many F1 driver contracts forbid dangerous extra-curricular activities, but last weekend seven time world champion Schumacher was back at the wheel of a competitive kart.

On the free weekend between the Monaco and Turkish grands prix, the 41-year-old German finished second in two DMV championship races at the Oppenrod circuit.

To Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, the highly-paid Mercedes driver played down suggestions he is risking injury by keeping up his hobby of kart racing.

“There are a few sports that are more dangerous than formula one,” he said, “but karting I would consider more on the safe side.”

Schumacher admitted that he contests kart races for “fun” but also argues that the discipline is good practice for his day-job.

“The fun aspect is the most important. That’s really the only reason I do it,” said the German.

“What you learn here is not much help (for F1),” he admitted, “but you can do quite a lot of overtaking.”
(GMM)