Sebastian Vettel considers Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton his main rivals – Formula 1 news
Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel has said that Fernando Alonso of Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton of McLaren are his main rivals in 2012 Formula 1 season.
Alonso is currently leading the drivers’ championship with 129 points. Moreover, he is 13 points ahead of Vettel’s teammate, Mark Webber who has a lead of 16 points over the veteran German driver.
Even though, after the British GP, Webber has emerged as the second driver to score two race victories. However, the defending champion thinks that Alonso and Hamilton are the two contenders who can challenge him in this year’s championship battle.
“At the moment it is still very competitive,” Vettel said. “There are number of drivers performing on similar level, as the results show. There are three of us within 29 points after nine races. I think that the drivers who stand out right now are Fernando
- he is one of the most complete drivers and Lewis, who is very quick even though he was bit unlucky in Silverstone.”
In addition, he said that the current season has been quite unpredictable as there have been seven different winners in the first seven races. Furthermore, he said that the performance of any driver in the race largely depends on his team’s developmental
work.
He also said that they have been trying their best to keep on making the necessary advancements and the significant step ups so as to defend their championship title.
“The truth is that your performance is only as good as you and package you have and that can change every fortnight. So there are definitely more names to drop than just one,” he said.
Besides, he said that they are positively looking forward to perform well in the race ahead. It will be important to mention that although Red Bull struggled during the last pre-season test, nonetheless, they have still been deemed as the most favourite
team in the championship fight.
Currently, they are leading the constructors’ championship with 216 points and are 64 points ahead of their main rival, Ferrari.
Above and beyond, it will be very interesting to see how all the teams come up in the season ahead.
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