vettel on top gear did 1.44 lap time. now its going to sound stupid to draw conclusions from this but the drivers who have done this, have all done the same lap, in the same car. now vettel was only .2 seconds faster then rubens but interesting one is hamilton did it in 1.44.7 in an extremely wet track, watch it on youtube if you dont believe me.
can we take conclusions from this that hamilton is faster then vettel and its more car then vettel?
We don't need Top Gear to draw that conclusionOriginally Posted by ollie the optimist
I don't particularly like Vettel, but he was quite funny at least.
No because Hamilton favours wet conditions.
Also, won't the car be about three years older now? It's a silly discussion anyway because it rather assumes that speed is the be all and end all for an F1 driver and that really isn't the case. It might well be the case that Hamilton is faster than Vettel in the same car with exactly the same set-up and conditions. F1 and racing in general is so much more than that though, other things that the car doesn't (semi) automatically take care off come in to play every single race.
A couple of F1 programmes are on tonight. On 7 BBC2 has a programme about Murray Walker and on BBC Four at 9, a programme about F1's 60th anniversary (from last year I think).
The Murray Walker programme is very good. He's so well respected in the paddock. Well worth watching.
I think I'll record it and watch it tomorrow. Playing F1 2010 until Top Gear is on.
German Grand Prix
Nurburgring, 22-24 July
Friday 22 July: Practice one - 0900-1030; Practice two - 1300-1430
Saturday 23 July: Practice three - 1000-1100; Qualifying - 1300-1400
Sunday 24 July: Race - 1300
Vettel will be more determined than ever for this one!
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