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Old 11-29-2011, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by The Yank
i kinda agree with the fake gearbox issue. is redbull trying to tell us that even with a gearbox issue, their car is still that much faster than ferrari and mclaren?
I would almost say yes to that. I bet that Redbull had another .3 or .5 of a second left in that car.
 
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It does seem a little hard to believe that Vettel could short shift his way around the track yet still mantain pace. So goes the soap opera of F1.
 
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Not only did he maintain pace, but he managed the gap with perfection while fending off two former world champions.

Also, there was no fluid to speak of and no other drivers reported even a hint of that awful smell that comes from a cooked gearbox.

More than anything, Red Bull was hoping that Button would have an issue and retire. If so, Webber could have moved to second in points. That would have even further sealed Red Bull's near-perfect season.

But - as been said - that is F1.
 
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Q: What was the team saying to you about Sebastian’s problems?
MW: It came pretty quickly. I thought he was either in tyre trouble way earlier than he should be or no KERS or something was going on, because one thing Seb doesn’t do is forget how to drive from one lap to the other. When I started to take a pretty big chunk out of him per lap, I thought something might have been going down and then Ciaron informed me that he had a gearbox problem and I think I could smell it a little bit when I got close, and there was also a little bit of fluid. Normally, that’s a nice feeling… OK, it was mixed obviously for me, because there was the chance to get the win but I know how hard the guys worked on Seb’s gearbox last night because it wasn’t completely smooth. They got it together but it turned out, obviously, in the end that something’s let them down. I thought that with that far to go in the race he obviously would not finish but the car still got home and that’s it.
James Allen has commented also that he saw the telemetry on the screen about the gear box oil level, and with 5 I think in total having gearbox issues it is more of a chance it was real than not..
 
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