Sebastian Vettel Seeks Attention in Strange 2014 Spanish Grand Prix Performance

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Published: May 11, 2014

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We have become accustomed to seeing little of Sebastian Vettel over the last four years.

He’d turn up, take pole position, storm into the distance, win the race and go home.

All the action took place behind the dominant Red Bull driver, with a large group of drivers squabbling to fill the two remaining places on the podium.

His advantage over his peers was so significant that he enjoyed the kind of blissful anonymity that only the most successful athletes and sports teams can achieve: to be so invincible that you actually become invisible.

Once the initial excitement at the start of a grand prix died down, we wouldn’t see Vettel again until he eased across the line and began that index-finger-waving ritual.

At the Spanish Grand Prix, however, the German tasted the other side of anonymity.



Vettel had been tipped as the likeliest contender to spoil Mercedes’ party this weekend.

The three-week gap which separated last month’s Chinese Grand Prix and the Spanish Grand Prix represented a chance for Red Bull and Renault, their power-unit partner, to solve the problems that had plagued the RB10 car since it was unveiled at Jerez in January.

With the race at the Circuit de Catalunya being the first European event of the season, and thus the grand prix which sees teams bring a raft of aerodynamic updates, there was a real opportunity for Red Bull and Vettel to change from damage-limitation mode to a more attacking strategy.

The German even had a change of chassis in his bid to return to the top, reverting to a model he had previously used in pre-season—but this only seemed to prompt a return of the niggling reliability issues which defined those dark, difficult winter months.



Vettel’s Friday running in Barcelona ended after only four laps due to an electrical problem in the morning session which s...
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