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Originally Posted by henners88
Webber is no where near as good as Vettel IMO. Vettel had the talent to put the car on pole and that is where he had the upper hand. The Red Bull has shown it is a tyre eater in dirty air which is why both drivers have found it difficult to move through traffic. In Canada Vettel had pole position and unlike the Mercedes, it has the pace in the slower corners to make the difference. Its been their design philosophy for 4 years now and although the RB lacks the straight-line speed of the Ferrari's and Merc's, it carries thew advantage in the slower corners. Canada has a few of those and this made up for the loss on the straights IMO. Webber was down the drid so obviously isn't going to reap the kind of rewards of his team mate.
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Yeah, and Vettel has done a fantastic season so far, extracting most of the car (and tyres) in every race without making any serious error, but he was let down twice by his team. First in China's Q when the team made him go out on the prime tyre, and then in Spain losing a lot of time trying a 3 stop strategy that didn't work. Yes, that was the only two times he's missed the podium.
Hamilton OTOH, is still trying to dominate a team mate who has outqualified him 3 times and has already won a GP. But even then he doesn't have the car to fight Seb and Fernando.
And Alonso even if he blames the luck, has done an average and inconsistent job so far in my opinion. In Australia the team rushed him into the pits for the first pit stop, but I think they wouldn't have done it had he outqualified Massa. It was an easy win compromised by an average qualifying.
In Malaisya he was outqualified again by Massa, and could've fought for the win again if it was not for that silly rookie error in the first corner.
And in the next five races Kimi's beaten him 3 times in Q with a slower Lotus. Monaco's race was compromised again by that fact, he had to fight the midfield runners and was beaten by Perez, Sutil and Button.
Then in Barhain he had that DRS problem, you can call that bad luck. But then again trying to open it in the middle of a stint and therefore having to pit losing tons of seconds was his mistake, another one.
So to summarize it, IMHO Vettel isn't leading because of luck or a dominant car, or any other excuse that people could invent. He's 36 points clear of Fernando because he's done great while the spaniard has made some mistakes that costed him big points.