Sebastian Vettel has driven fantastically well this season, there’s no doubt about that, the German managing to deal well with the sort of problems that confronted him with his car during the last Grand Prix, but the fact remains that the general public are growing sick and tired of watching races that are meant to contain elements of overtaking and huge excitement but actually end up proving something of a damp squib.
With this in mind, the Chinese Grand Prix will surely be the last one during which the general public give the current F1 season the benefit of the doubt and accept that the races will get more exciting and more competitive. Those following the F1 odds will certainly hope so.
If this weekend fails to provide that spark and element of sustained competitiveness at the very front of the grid, and leaves the qualifying sessions as the only exciting part of the Grand Prix weekend, then we will have to start contemplating what extreme measures the FIA are going to need to implement to stop one team every year racing away with the title, leaving the battle for glory to be fought out between only the two drivers working for that team, with one of those two often standing a greater chance of winning due to internal team support.
However, forgetting the negativity for just a second, it’s worth remembering what we have been able to learn from this season so far, with some teams clearly far better than we expected them to be, and that fact meaning that Vettel and Red Bull have a long way to go before they can even start to think about easing off and enjoying the fact that they have sown up the drivers’ and constructors’ championships. That said, if we are to see the Red Bull team defeated in the long-term, then we are going to need to see the others really step up to the plate when it matters at the Chinese Grand Prix.
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