Jacques Villeneuve says Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel will crack when challenged – Formula 1 news
Former Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has stated that Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel will crack if challenged by other drivers like it happened in the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix.
Jacques stated that although Vettel is growing day by day and is driving superbly in the 2011 season so far, but if he is challenged from behind, he will make mistakes.
The former Williams’ driver added that Vettel will win his second world championship this season if he does not make a mistake but from his racing career, it is obvious that the German cannot handle pressure just yet.
Jacques stated, “Vettel is fighting no-one right now,” the French-Canadian told Reuters. “If you look at it, anytime Vettel has to fight someone, he collapses – look at Montreal.”
He further added that on the other hand if Mark Webber makes some mistakes, Red Bull team takes actions.
“[Red Bull team-mate] Mark [Webber] has collapsed and the whole team has taken a step forward, so he's in a world of his own,” stated Jacques.
Sebastian Vettel has won six out of the first eight races of the 2011 Formula 1 season. Vettel’s dominance in the 2011 season has mostly been one sided but in the Canadian Grand Prix, Vettel made his first mistake of the season which was when McLaren’s Jenson
Button applied pressure from behind.
After leading for almost the entire race distance, Vettel made a costly mistake in the very last lap of the race when Button was charging from behind. Vettel went wide on the turn giving Button a glimpse at the top stair of the podium which the Brit grabbed
with both hands.
The next race of the season will be contested in Silverstone on July 10, 2011 without the Blown Diffuser technology. It is expected that the gap between the front-runners will reduce and that is when Vettel’s talent will be tested.
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