F1 » Stewart maintains view Vettel still isn't an F1 great


Jackie Stewart: Vettel's won three World Championships now but he has unquestionably had the very best car for three consecutive years...

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Ptolomy - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 1:35 PM

Here this idiot goes again...
Jackie. Do you remember Monza in 2008? Vettel did what noone has ever done. He took a "Minardi" and put it on pole. And the next day blew the Ferrari's, McLarens, Renaults and the like into the weeds.
How's that for "driving a lesser car?"
And lets not forget you're one of the idiots that has said that Lewis Hamilton is a "great."

Ptolomy - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 1:50 PM

Lets face it Jackie. If Vettel backs out of his contract and quits F1 for good next week, then he will be greater than you ever were. He has already outperformed all your achievements. Lets say he takes up competitive karaoke for the rest of his life. People will talk about the young man that achieved more in less time and at a younger age than ANYONE in the history of the sport.
He is ALREADY a legend in F1. And will be even if he quits tomorrow.
Jackie, I knew what you were all about when I saw you parading around at Indianapolis a few years ago. An attention junkie.

F1VET

December 13, 2012 2:46 PM

True story I mow this blokes lawn and I'm seriously considering withdrawing our contract, he has always been a nice guy to me but its kind of a joke..... He used shumacher as an example, he by far had a better car his whole career and look at his pace with Mercedes, f1 now a days isn't the same, the front runners are within a tenth of a second...

Vettel proved himself in 2008 in his crappy str and did great then gave rbr their first victory, enough said.

Dan - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 3:03 PM

@UncleSam
Did you not see any races Alonso won this year? He won 3 in an inferior car. And did you see Hamilton in 2009? Yes Vettel managed it at Monza 2008 but he's generally had the best car on the grid for his whole career so he hasn't really proved he can win with an inferior car. For all we know Monza was a fluke win, he hasn't repeated it since..

RT - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 3:41 PM

Stewart is forgetting one simple fact. Webber drove the same car and had the same team. And where did Webber finish in the end? That's what I thought. He makes it sound like anyone from the field could jump in Sebs car and win 3 championships in a row. Only Alonso and Hamilton would have that same chance in Sebs car.

JohnO - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 4:13 PM

" he can consistently get the maximum out of an inferior car as can Alonso and Hamilton"


What does that even MEAN? Like ninety percent of the hot air spoken and written about F1 - see the talk of "pure natural talent" - it means nothing. How do you know that Hamilton and Alonso "consistently get the maximum out of an inferior car"? I hereby tell you that Hamilton and Alonso can get only 35 percent out of an inferior car, and invite you to prove me wrong.

"Inferior car" is another of those nonsense terms.

Pole Position - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 4:26 PM

Here we go again. Vettel needs to get out of Redbull and drive a "normal" car. Stewart like everybody else is basing Vettel's success on Adrian Newey built cars. It's a perception and perception is everything especially in a sport like F1. I know this will hurt the Vettel fanboys but it's the truth.

JohnO - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 4:31 PM

I'm reading a lot of this drivel in the British press recently. Andrew Benson has a bizarre example of the genre on the BBC website today. The common thread is "Disregard things like records, statistics, races won, titles won and so forth - WE will tell you when a driver is good or not, based on our intuition of the matter and not on such trivia as how many points he scored".

The sight of a German winning the WDC seems to cause vapor lock in certain Britons brains.

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