Sebastian Vettel Has Departed Red Bull Psychologically After United States GP

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Published: November 4, 2014

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The United States Grand Prix was always bound to be one of the most difficult weekends of the year, in this year of difficult weekends, for Sebastian Vettel.

At most other races in 2014, the four-time world champion has arrived at a track with at least a degree of hope.

A hope that this will be the weekend that he turns his season around. A hope that this will be the weekend that he gives Daniel Ricciardo, his Red Bull team-mate and Formula One's latest golden boy, something to think about. A hope that this will be the weekend that sees him stop the slide of his reputation.



When there has been little else for Vettel, there has always been hope—but even that was absent ahead of the United States Grand Prix, an event that he must have been dreading for the best part of a month.

He has known since the Russian Grand Prix on October 12 that it would be a weekend of misery, with Vettel forced to use his sixth power unit of the season at the Circuit of the Americas, incurring a penalty which would see him start from the pit lane.

This made qualifying—a session that has resulted in him securing 45 pole positions since 2008—an irrelevance, with Vettel revealing his plans to miss qualifying as a means of protecting his latest power train, telling F1 journalist James Allen:

The rule is of course completely stupid. So the people turn on the television and see a driver who just stands around and has nothing to do. What does that mean?

There is no point in going out for qualifying when you have to start from the pit lane anyway.

In the event, however, he did appear in Q1 to, as Red Bull team principal Christian Horner explained to F1 writer Adam Cooper, eliminate the threat of the 107 per cent rule—which gives race stewards the power to prevent any car that fails to qualify within 107 per cent of the fastest time in Q1—and, presumably, to ap...
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