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Anda que Senna era muy maduro...
Y hombre, compararlo con Verstappen.....
En exceso no. A Senna se le recuerda por sus extraordinarias gestas aún hoy en día no igualadas. Por ejemplo, la vuelta de clasificación que hizo en Mónaco en 1988 con su Mclaren Mp4 está considerada la vuelta de clasificación más perfecta de la historia, no igualada aún. Hizo un tiempo de 1:23.998, ¡1, 427 segundos más que Alain Prost con el mismo coche! Hay muchas extraordinarias acciones realizadas por este piloto que no tienen comparación posible aún a día de hoy.Y yo que creo que a Senna se le ha mitificado en exceso precisamente por su muerte...
Temerario porque cualquiera que viera lo que era capaz de hacer con el coche, pilotos de entonces y ahora incluidos, excedía la lógica ampliamente. Pero Senna siempre demostró que tenía un control excepcional sobre el coche. Por eso podía hacer lo que hacía. Cosas que los demás pilotos sólo podían soñar.Era un genio pero la película es bastante reveladora, eso de que creía que Dios iba con él en el coche le hacía un pelín temerario, por decirlo suavemente y más de uno se apartaba un poco por si acaso.
Más o menos como dice Hamilton sobre Mad Verstappen.
Si tu lo dices...
Then Raikkonen was replaced by Charles Leclerc. As many observed at the time, this seemed less a matter of the team losing faith in Raikkonen, than ushering in the next generation of talent in preparation for Vettel’s departure. Vettel had given them too many reasons to doubt his ability to deliver another championship during his 2017 and 2018 fights with Lewis Hamilton.
The similarities between what happened next and Vettel’s other notorious collision with a team mate – Mark Webber at Istanbul in 2010 – are obvious. There are subtle differences, but in both cases he was in the process of passing the team’s other car and squeezed them too hard in an attempt to make them avoid trying to ‘win’ the next corner. In Brazil, Vettel needed to press Leclerc into backing out of an attempt to re-pass, as his team mate’s tyres were that bit fresher, making him more of a threat in the braking zone.
But similarities between the two incidents extend far deeper than the manner in which the cars interacted. Heading into the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix, Webber had won the preceding two races and was leading the championship, 15 points and four places ahead of Vettel. Then, as last Sunday, Vettel was feeling the heat from a team mate and reacted to it badly.
The question now is how Ferrari, and Binotto, will handle it. At Red Bull nine years ago Helmut Marko beat the drum in favour of Vettel. Webber accused the team of tilting too much in favour of Vettel.
The Ferrari of today could be accused of doing the same. Leclerc was rebuked on the radio and in public for the Monza incident and his Singapore radio messages. Vettel’s insubordination in Russia did not prompt a similar response. But the rashness he displayed in Brazil is not something they can allow to go unchecked.
Besides which, where Vettel represented the bright future for Red Bull in 2010, it is surely Leclerc who occupies that position at Ferrari today. That may prove the vital difference between two otherwise similar events.
“When I went past Eau Rouge I stepped on debris from Alesi’s car that got under the front wheels, lifted them so I went straight, with the bad luck that I went straight into Hubert’s car,” he said.
He has contributed to the FIA’s forthcoming report into the cause of the crash. “It’s all clear,” he said, “I had meetings with the FIA, it was an accident with very bad luck, a long chain of events where four or five cars were involved.