Tuvimos que dividir en dos la columna porque la editorial quedó mucho -como varias cuartillas- más larga de lo normal. En cuanto quede lista La Desmañanada de Malasia, pondré un enlace aquí para la parte 2 que traerá las Imágenes, el Top 10, Crónicas de Esteban, Aventuras del Checo, Buena y Mala Idea y todas las otras secciones. Aquí está el enlace.
Este fin de semana
fue el perfecto ejemplo de lo politizada que está la Fórmula Uno, no es nada
nuevo, pero tuvo no sólo uno si no dos ejemplos de las famosas órdenes de
equipo. Podría arrancarme escribiendo sobre lo sucedido, pero creo que lo mejor
es analizar, paso a paso, las conferencias de prensa –tanto la que se realiza
en el podio como en la sala de medios- y tratar de entender qué pasó. Los
textos de las conferencias lo pueden encontrar en este enlace y
estaré poniendo el texto en inglés porque si no nos podemos tardar mucho leyendo
traducción y original- cada una de las partes a analizar:
Hay que notar que en
este punto ya habían pasado las siguientes cosas: Newey había hablado muy
seriamente –lo regañó- en el salón de los vencedores con Vettel frente a una
cámara que grabó toda la escena. Luego llegó Webber –quien había estacionado su
auto antes, pero se tardó más en subir- y no saludó a su coequipero, sólo tomó
su agua y se sentó para voltear a ver y algo dijo que parecía más
reclamo y menos felicitación. Al pasar al podio, Webber no celebró con Vettel y
le echó la champaña a la gente en lugar de a Vettel.
Q: We’re going to start with Sebastian. That’s your 27th victory. You
now match Sir Jackie Stewart with that but it looked pretty close out there on
laps 43 and 44, take us through that.
Sebastian Vettel: Obviously it was very close wheel-to-wheel racing. I think there wasn’t
much room for either of us so obviously it was a tight battle. I think probably
I was a little bit too keen too soon because I obviously in terms of strategy
was on the soft tyre towards the end, on the softer compound, felt I had a
little bit more, so yeah, obviously enjoyed the fight, had the upper hand in
the end. Throughout the whole race it was very close. Mark was always a little
bit ahead - I was stuck in traffic. In the middle of the race I wasn’t quite
sure about the strategy but towards the end it seems to work very well because
we were able to save that extra set and it came off with a little bit more
speed.
Aquí no hay mucho y
Vettel sólo nos habla de cómo él tenía la ventaja por tener llantas más suaves.
Básicamente, lo que nos dice es que lo iba a pasar eventualmente.
Q: Obviously there is going to be a little bit of friction, we heard on
your team radio “congratulations, but there is some explaining to do”. How do
you feel about the race itself in that respect?
SV: I
think obviously it’s very hot today and I think if there is something to say
then we need to talk internally. For sure we both enjoyed that. Of course, I’m
standing in the middle now, so I probably enjoyed it a little bit more. But
there is plenty of time to talk about.
Muy bien esquivada la
pregunta y además juega un poco con las palabras. Sí, hacía calor en Malasia,
pero el alemán se refería más bien a que la situación estaba demasiado caliente
para discutirla en un podio. También vemos como démerita un poco todo el asunto
al decir que si hay algo que discutir será interno con énfasis en el si
condicional.
Q: Probably a good time for to walk across to Mark and see how he felt
about. You had a great race Mark, the tyres worked well through the early part…
you had a great start, that’s not always your strongest suit but you were in
good shape at the beginning of the race.
Mark Webber: Yeah the first part of the grand prix went
very well for us. I think very tricky conditions for all of us on the
intermediates to start with. In the end, yeah I think we got the right strategy
I think early in the race with the inters, getting the crossover quite nice.
Then really it was just controlling the race and getting everything in place
towards the back end of the race. Obviously I had to mark Lewis off a little
bit in the middle there and then after the last stop obviously the team told me
the race was over, we turned the engines down and we go to the end. I want to
race as well, but in the end the team made a decision, which we always say
before the race is probably how it’s going to be - we look after the tyres, get
the car to the end and in the end Seb made his own decisions today and will
have protection and that’s the way it goes.
Lo más importante
aquí son dos cosas: primero que Webber menciona por primera vez las órdenes de
equipo –en este caso el código es apagar los motores- que él sí siguió y por
las cuales ya no esperaba una pelea. Además, al decir que también le gusta
correr, está contestando a Vettel quien acababa de decir que la ventaja era
suya. El segundo punto es que menciona que Vettel tendrá protección como
diciendo: “Vale m@#$#, igual no le van a hacer nada”.
Q: So you were surprised when he went past you?
MW: Yeah,
well I turned my engine down and started cruising on the tyres and the fight
was off. Anyway, we know he’s a quick peddler but I was disappointed with the
outcome of today’s race. In the end the team did a good job, I had some good
fans here from Australia, so thanks guys. I
did my best.
La pregunta de Brundle
es sólo para aclarar si esperaba el rebase o no a lo que Webber contesta
básicamente lo mismo de haber apagado el motor y cuidar las llantas. Sin
embargo, lo importante aquí es el adjetivo con el que Webber nombra a Vettel: quick peddler. El término es usado para
nombrar a los vendedores ambulantes lo cual no es malo en sí, pero tiene una
connotación negativa desde hace más de cuatro siglos en el idioma inglés. Obvio
Vettel no lo sabía en el momento –a menos de que sea un experto en el idioma- y
no lo captó, pero fue un término despectivo.
Q: Can you take any positives away from today?
MW: Yeah
I think there were a lot of things I did pretty well, from my driving, the
start on the inters, there are a lot of areas where you can get that wrong,
obviously like Fernando, that’s unusual for him. So in the end you’ve got drive
slow on these tyres, we’re not pushing flat out as usual, all the leaders are
driving very slow to save the tyres.
No le preguntan, pero
Webber quiere dejarnos claro que él venía manejando lento y cuidando las
llantas por lo que podría haberle peleado a Vettel la victoria. En la
transmisión, es aquí cuando enfocan a Horner quien tiene una cara de “¿Qué ch!#”#%@
voy a hacer?”.
Q:I’ll move to Lewis Hamilton, our third-place finisher. Lewis, you
similarly had a very tough fight with your team-mate but it seemed to be all
about saving fuel for you at the end of the race.
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, absolutely. The team did a fantastic
job, it’s great to be up here for them. If I’m honest I really that Nico should
be standing here. Generally he had better pace than me throughout the race.
He’s a great team-mate and did a fantastic job today. On our side I was
fuel-saving for a long, long time and unable to keep the pace of the guys in
front but nonetheless we brought it home, the guys did a great job and I’m
proud to be up here for them.
Nos movemos con
Hamilton quien no tarda en decir que Rosberg debería estar parado en el podio y
seguramente está agradeciendo que no quedaron segundo y tercero porque así no
habría una batalla verbal pasivo-agresiva de Mercedes enfrente de todo el
mundo.
Q: Nico was certainly asking in very strong terms to be allowed to come
past you at one point, but at that point I think Ross had called the race off
hadn’t he?
LH: Yeah,
I can’t say it’s the best feeling being up here but racing is racing and I
really just have to keep looking forward.
Por la expresión de sorpresa
que hace Hamilton, creo que el inglés no supo lo que estaba pasando entre Nico
y los fosos. Seguramente a él sólo le dijeron que guardara gasolina y trajera
el auto, que Nico iba a quedarse detrás. Este es el punto básico y diferente
entre ambas disputas: en Red Bull ambos sabían que no debían atacarse y en
Mercedes sólo a Nico le informaron.
Q: We’ve got to ask you about that pit stop - you fancied stopping at
McLaren, for old times’ sake maybe?
LH: Yeah,
I just did a Jenson. He did that a couple of years ago. Used to, for so many
years, driving to the McLaren pit stop I don’t know how I got it wrong. So big
apologies to the team.
Un poco de risas para
rebajar la tensión que existía en el podio.
Q: I respect you’re such competitive drivers, such competitive athletes.
You’re all kind of happy/unhappy up here today. It’s been that kind of race.
But at the end of the day, Sebastian, looking pretty good for the championship
- not in the long-term but for your championship position obviously it’s been a
great day.
SV: Yeah,
I think in that regard it’s obviously a long race. It’s good at this stage of
the year to score points and we go from there but thinking about the
championship right now, it’s way too early. I think it was a great race for the
team today. I think we did better on the tyres than we expected. Obviously it
dried pretty quickly but we had a pretty clean race in terms of tyres after
that.
Esta pregunta ya no
tiene que ver con lo sucedido y sólo le preguntan sobre el estado del
campeonato, mismo que igual iría liderando si hubiera quedado segundo.
Lo que sigue es lo
que pasó en la conferencia de prensa:
Q: Sebastian, congratulations, your 27th career victory, equalling Sir
Jackie Stewart and on a day when one of your main rivals for the championship,
arguably, Fernando Alonso scored no points. You said at the midway stage in the
race, something along the lines of “I’m faster than Mark, let me through.” But
in the end, you did it yourself. Can you tell us how your race unfolded.
SV: Obviously
it was an interesting one to start with and mixed conditions. I think we
weren’t too bad on the crossover going to dries. Probably a little bit too
soon. Some places on the track looked pretty dry but they turned out to be
still quite a bit damp. I think coming out in traffic didn’t help, so I lost
the lead at that time, which I think put us in position two, three at that time
because after that it was quite a long race, trying to look after tyres.
Towards the end I feel I had quite a strong pace and obviously at the very end
on a new set of medium tyres had a bit more speed and it was a close fight but
I think… yeah… as you can see I’m not entirely happy. I think I did a big
mistake today. I think we should have stayed in the positions that we were. I
didn’t ignore it on purpose but I messed up in that situation and obviously
took the lead which, I can see now he’s upset, but yeah, I want to be honest at
least and stick to the truth and apologise. I know that it doesn’t really help
his feelings right now but I think other than that, obviously a very good race
for the team. We handed the tyres I think pretty well today. To sum it up,
apologies to Mark, obviously now the result is there but… yeah, all I can say
is that I didn’t do it deliberately.
Sí, sí, felicidades por
tu victoria 27, ahora cuéntanos del rebase a Mark que es lo que todos queremos
saber. Ya con un poco más de tiempo para pensarlo, Vettel se disculpa por primera
y segunda vez con Webber. Se notó cómo ya estaba incómodo con la situación y
trató de dejar claro que no lo había hecho a propósito –sí, como no.
Q: What exactly do you mean? Was there some understanding between you
that you’ve broken?
SV: No. I think obviously we talk about these kind
of things before we go into the race and its not the first time we race each
other. I think the difference in pace at the end probably wasn’t fair because
he was trying to save the car and the tyres and, as I said, I did not ignore
that but I should have been aware, to be honest. Obviously then took quite a
lot of risk to pass him and that was the end of the race then.
Sigue el escrutinio,
pero Vettel es claro en decir que no había un acuerdo. Más bien, él no fue
consciente de la situación en la que Webber se encontraba –cuidado de llantas y
auto- para no atacar. También nos menciona, bajita la mano, el movimiento –a mi
parecer muy gandalla- que Webber hizo al defender la posición. Neta, después de
tantas preguntas y clarificaciones sobre el tema, Vettel ya habría de estar
harto, yo lo estaba. Haya pasado o no rompiendo un acuerdo, Webber le aventó el
auto como Schumacher lo hizo con Barrichello en Hungría en 2010 en un movimiento por el que Schumacher
fue duramente criticado.
Nadie ha criticado la
maniobra de Webber porque lo estamos considerando la víctima, pero bien pudo
haber causado un accidente mayor. Eso no lo podemos dejar pasar por alto
porque, órdenes o no, la maniobra no fue buena.
Q: Mark, obviously there have been some times in the past when you’ve
been very close together and things have been said. Your reaction to what
Sebastian has just said.
MW: Well,
I was happy with how I drove today. I think it was a very good team result. We
went into the race a little bit worried about how the race would unfold for us
as a team in terms of performance. You still have to drive the grands prix
these days at eight-tenths - it’s not like the old day when grand prix drivers
are driving flat out and leaning on the tyres like hell - because the tyres are
wearing out. So it’s not the most satisfying thing for us as grand prix drivers
these days - but it’s the same for everybody. And then yeah… got myself into a
position where we were controlling the race. I was being told the target lap
times, again in relation to how the tyres are. Obviously Seb and Lewis come
back to me at one point in the race, I responded and lifted the pace up and got
away around the stop. And then we had a pretty good situation tee’d up towards
the end of the race. And then after the last stop I thought that it would be
interesting how the team would deal with it and I was ready for a sprint to the
end. And then the team obviously rang up and said “the race is… the pressure is
off now. We need to look after the tyres to the end. Basically don’t fight each
other.” I turned the engine down. We have some codes in terms of getting the
cars to the end. In the end I’m happy with how I drove and… yeah it doesn’t…
yeah, emotions are… probably not the best time to talk at the moment.
La pregunta obligada
a Webber quien nos vuelve a decir que él ya no estaba peleando la posición –aunque
para no pelearla dio un cerrón espectacular- y evita decir algo de lo que
podría arrepentirse después. Muy inteligente porque sabe que esto debe
resolverse en el equipo y no frente a los medios.
Q: Lewis, congratulations on your first podium as a Mercedes driver. You
don’t look particularly happy about it. In your case you retained the position
and Nico stayed behind you to the finish. Describe your race.
LH: The
team did a fantastic job, so I’m very happy to be up here representing them.
They’ve been working so hard over the winter and obviously welcomed me into the
team so to be up here and to be on the second row for me and Nico is a great
feeling. But of course, I don’t feel spectacular sitting here. Obviously I
think Nico deserved to be where I am right now but obviously the team thought
that, I guess, with the position in the Championship perhaps it was logical to
stay in the positions we were in. But yeah, I have to say a big congratulations
to Nico because he drove a much smarter and much more controlled race than I
did today.
Mientras los otros
siguen peleándose, Hamilton se mantiene en su papel de felicitar a Nico y no
crear más controversias. Como dijimos antes, creo que él no supo el drama
completo entre Nico y los fosos por lo que tiene cierta protección del equipo
en cuanto a culpas.
Q: (Peter Windsor - F1 Racing) Sebastian, you said that you apologise;
would you go so far as to say - without wanting to put words in your mouth -
that if the situation arises, you feel that you owe Mark a win now?
SV: We
just came out of the cars a couple of minutes ago but surely I want to talk
with him again later on without all of you. As I said before, I didn’t mean to
ignore the call, it’s something we talk about many times in the year and yeah,
I should have behaved better today.
Muy inteligentemente,
Vettel evita comprometerse a darle un Victoria a Webber en el future –yo creo
que no tiene por qué hacerlo- y manda a la prensa lejos. No es algo que deba
seguir discutiendo con ellos presentes. Curioso que sigue hablando de no haber
ignorado el llamado del equipo a propósito.
Q: (Livio Oricchio - O Estado de Sao Paulo) Lewis, we could hear at the
end of the race while Nico was parking the car, ‘remember this one,’ he said to
the team. Will you remember it too?
LH: Of
course, of course. How can I forget?
Básicamente la misma
pregunta que hizo Windsor, pero para Lewis. Sin embargo, Hamilton tampoco se
engancha en prometer nada porque puede acordarse de esta sin tener que pagarla.
Algo así como: me acuerdo que fue el podio más extraño que he vivido. ¿Ven? Se acuerda,
pero sin pagar de regreso.
Q: (Michael Schmidt - Auto, Motor und Sport) To all three of you, I
understand the technical reasons why you have to pace yourselves at the end and
why there are team orders, but let’s say for the fan, is that the price we have
to pay that the teams tell you in the last stint not to attack any more because
everybody was excited about the fight between Mark and Seb and everybody was a
bit disappointed when we heard that Rosberg was not allowed to attack you,
Lewis.
MW: I’m
a huge sports fan and I think we want to see people give their best to the end.
It’s extremely unusual to have both cars at the end of a race together and I
think the team’s position is... we’ve gone through this many times with our own
team and obviously now is a different situation for the future but... yeah,
it’s part of Formula One. I think that when you have 500 employees and it was
nip and tuck for Sebastian and I to be in the fence in turn one, Michael
Schmidt’s happy but is the factory happy, are we happy? So when the blood is
boiling and everyone is on the edge, then yeah, we are professionals, we are
world class, we did the job today but it’s not an easy situation for the team.
It’s always spoken about, always has been, always will be. If you had one car
teams, it’s not a problem. In some teams to have a one car team is the ideal
scenario but three cars, four cars, it’s always going to be the same thing,
that contact between teammates is the worst scenario for a team.
Por fin, alguien se
preocupa por los aficionados y les hace ver que a los aficionados nos vale
queso las órdenes de equipo. Nosotros queremos ver pelear a los pilotos en
cualquier condición para ver quién fue mejor en cada carrera. Sin embargo,
Webber nos recuerda que no es tan seguido que pase esto y que, cuando llega a
suceder, el equipo viene primero. Tiene bastante razón, el equipo busca el
título de constructores y el de pilotos es secundario.
También menciona otro
punto, equipos de un auto –lo cual más o menos hace NASCAR- y que en la
categoría gringa ha funcionado bastante bien. Se ve lejano, aún cuando veamos
dos Ferrari pintados igual y manejado diferente porque las pistas tendrían que
ser adaptadas a tener más fosos donde detener cada auto en las paradas.
Q: Sebastian, your perspective?
SV: If
I take my race, obviously, as I said, I felt a little bit more comfortable
because I had new tyres at the end, a new set of tyres which I think worked a
little bit better today but yeah, it’s very different racing to how it used to
be in the past, even to last year, it’s another step, so it’s a bit more
extreme, just trying to look after the tyres and driving into the unknown. I
think you see on TV as well how pieces of rubber are flying off and how we
suffer on those tyres and obviously the last thing you want is to risk a
puncture and then therefore don’t finish the race so I think we would all enjoy
it if we had a tyre that was stronger we could race harder on it, but equally I
think situations like that come up no matter what kind of tyres you have.
Obviously, as Mark said, you have a certain responsibility for the team as well
and a lot of people in the factory working all year and obviously you have two
cars and I think you have to take that into account as well.
Repite lo mismo que
nos dijo Webber.
Q: Lewis, your thoughts? Obviously this circuit is a fairly extreme one
but do you see the picture continuing?
LH: I
probably do, yeah. These tyres make it very hard, very difficult to make them
last and particularly for me today, I wasn’t really able to make my tyres last
as much as I wanted. I was fuel saving from an early point in the race which
lost me a lot of time but generally these tyres make... it’s not fun, I didn’t
enjoy the race. It’s not the same as back in the day when you had stints where
you are pushing to the maximum the whole time, you had tyres that would last.
Now you’re just... it’s like you have a hundred dollars and you have to spend
it wisely over a period of time. It makes racing a lot different. It’s more
strategic rather than pure speed racing.
Excelente respuesta
del ingles quien sabemos es uno de los pilotos que menos sabe cuidar las
llantas y por ende tiene que manejar muy diferente a su estilo verdadero. No lo
divierte manejar así y a nosotros tampoco cuando al final muchos sólo están en
conservación. Sin embargo, no pasa en todas las carreras como vimos en
Australia por lo que tampoco hay que ser tan dramáticos.
Q: (Kate Walker - Girl Racer) Lewis, you said that Nico drove a really
smart race and we did hear from quite early on that you were getting a lot of
fuel messages, Nico was getting a few. Were you guys fuelled just on the edge
of what was acceptable, were you racing too hard? What was your problem with
fuel?
LH: I think we were racing very hard to keep up
with these guys because they were obviously on another level today. We were
close but really on the knife edge trying to stay with them. We were trying to
be as high up, as far up, as close to them as possible, but obviously I used
too much fuel. I was being asked to save fuel from very early on, perhaps we
were particularly aggressive on our fuel strategy which is a little bit
unfortunate. I don’t know what the situation was with Nico but for me, it loses
quite a lot of time when you have to basically lift and coast for a hundred
meters, fifty to a hundred meters before a corner. I think we can do a better
job there and I think I can do a better job just looking after the tyres. I
could see that Nico was not pushing too much at the start of his stints, which
is where I was trying to keep up with these guys so I was perhaps pushing a
little bit more, trying to really make the difference in the early stages of
the tyres and took too much out of them but that’s the name of the game.
Otra pregunta fuera
del tema, pero que se agradece porque ya habíamos escuchado demasiado sobre las
órdenes o no de equipo. Interesante, Mercedes venía matándose por ser
competitivo con los Red Bull mientras estos venían matándose entre ellos lo
cual es una señal de que el equipo alemán no es tan rápido como nos hizo creer
en la pretemporada. Ahora que si pensamos que Massa venía mucho más atrás de
Rosberg no quiero pensar en Ferrari.
Q: (Christopher Joseph - The Vancouver Sun) To both Mark and Lewis:
given that F1 is a team sport and team dynamic is vital, what will you both do
practically now moving forward to either repair or return to that great team
dynamic you both had?
MW: I
think it’s very early days right now, it’s very raw, obviously, and we need to
work out how the team goes best forwards from here. That’s obviously going to
be discussed this week. I will be in Australia on my surfboard, the phone won’t
be engaged, see what happens.
LH: I
think it’s difficult to say for me what we do moving forward, but I will go and
speak to the team and obviously whether or not I should apologise to Nico... I
did say to him that he’d done a fantastic job. Would I let him past in the
future if I was in the same position? I
probably would.
Aquí creo que el
periodista está mal en asumir que había unas buenas dinámicas en ambos equipos.
La de Red Bull se rompió en 2010 cuando Vettel intentó rebasar a Webber y se tocaron en Turquía costándole el 1-2 al equipo. La respuesta
del australiano es que hablarán y después él se desconectará, básicamente
dejando en manos del equipo la situación.
Por otro lado,
Hamilton menciona que revisará con el equipo si debe disculparse –como hemos
dicho, no creo que estuviera consciente de lo que sucedía entre Nico y los
fosos y por ende no es su culpa. Lo que sí, es que ahora se compromete a
regresarle el favor a Rosberg en un futuro.
Q: (Ian Parkes - Press Association) Mark, as has been mentioned,
emotions are clearly raw but firstly do you at least accept Seb’s apology,
because that’s not been mentioned yet and secondly, again emotions are raw but
when you have a teammate who does ignore team orders, does it make you consider
your future with the team, maybe even in Formula One?
MW: My
mind, in the last 15 laps was thinking that many things, yes. Many many things.
Aquí, el Sr. Parkes
dice: momento, Vettel ya se disculpó y no te hemos escuchado aceptarla. Sin
embargo, Webber evita esa parte de la pregunta y se enfoca en todo lo que pensó
en las últimas 15 vueltas sin decirnos qué fue o contestar la pregunta del
periodista.
Q: (Dan Knutson - Auto Action) Again, to Vettel, do you realise in the
past there have been things like this between Senna and Prost, Villeneuve and
Pironi, that if you don’t repair this, that the whole team gets in trouble and
it all goes downhill?
SV: Well,
I think there’s plenty of food on the table for you guys. I think it’s
something between Mark and myself. I think we’ve had situations in the past,
never like that, so obviously there has been a lot of stories in the press
written about our relationship etc. I think our relationship is very
professional, obviously there’s no problems. We are not best friends. I think
it’s very difficult to be best friends with any of the drivers but I think we
share respect and I respect Mark as a racing driver. I remember occasions where
obviously people express their opinion about Mark and his career which I
thought at some stage were very disrespectful. I obviously try to be aware of
what he has achieved, where he has come from, not only in Formula One but also
before that and I respect that, so I respect him as a driver. Obviously we were
giving each other a very hard time, probably similar to the fight that you saw
today on the track, not trying to give each other much room. It’s the same at
every race and obviously it’s not an easy battle but in terms of team spirit
etc, I think we’ve been working very well together in the past. Obviously I can
see that for you it probably sounds a bit dull, because if you look back at the
results, the last three years I’ve had the upper hand but I think it was always
very close. At this stage, can I say much more than I made a mistake, I’m not
proud that I made it. If I had the chance to do it again, I would do it
differently but it doesn’t count now. I can’t change it now, maybe in the future
there’s a situation where I can but I will try to explain that again to Mark
and the whole team.
En primera no sé a
quién se le ocurre comparar a Senna y Prost con Webber y Vettel. Vettel está
bien en la comparación, pero Webber no es ni Senna ni Prost. Podrían haber
comparado con Irvine y Schumacher, pero cuando Irvine se fue, Ferrari siguió
ganando así que no convenía hacer esa comparación aún cuando es más correcta.
Ahora, Vettel vuelve a mencionar que él hablará con el equipo y Webber y ya.
Por otro lado, nos deja ver que no son amigos: compañeros, coequiperos, lo que
quieran, pero no amigos.
Para que la prensa no
lo tome sólo contra Webber, Vettel se ve bien listo y menciona que con ningún
piloto puede ser el mejor de los amigos –obviamente le quieren ganar a todos- y
nos recuerda que en el pasado ha apoyado a Webber cuando la gente lo critica.
También, bajita la mano, nos recuerda quién es el que ha sido mejor durante los
últimos tres años aunque él lo ha visto muy parejo –sí claro, sólo en 2010
Webber tuvo oportunidad de ganar el título.
Finalmente, Vettel
sabe que las próximas tres semanas estarán llenas de especulaciones y le deja
claro a la prensa que ya sabrán los periodistas qué hacer.
Q: (Trent Price - Richland F1) Mark, obviously yesterday there were a
lot of unknowns surrounding tyres going into this race but you’ve executed
basically what was a perfect race in terms of the tyre management. That must
give you some confidence for the rest of the year.
MW: Yeah,
you’re right, going into the event we were pretty concerned. Some of our long
runs before the Grand Prix itself were pretty poor but these guys are not
resting on any laurels, particularly, again, our key beacon in Adrian Newey,
Adrian is working hard. The thing is I think it’s quite good for the neutral,
good for the fans and good for probably new people that are following Formula
One, but the old - let’s say people who have more of a grasp of the sport and
more education of where the sport was - it’s still a little bit hit and miss.
With what we had, probably not much of an idea that’s how the race would go for
us today. I was surprised that other people were not with us, completely,
people won’t believe that but that’s the case, and also I think, for the junior
categories they need to get the tyres and things better for young drivers to
learn how to push the cars to the limit and drive absolutely on the edge. You
watch Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer play each other and it’s playing with the
lines, it’s playing with precision for a five set match and we all enjoy
watching that but at the moment we’re driving at eight and a half tenths, eight
tenths, conserving our pace and some more situations like this will probably
happen in the future because there’s a lot of ambiguity in who’s (on the) pace
and who’s quick. Seb feels he’s strong only in the middle of the race then I
could respond. The racing is completely around nursing and trying to make the
tyres survive and they’re not conducive to driving a car on the limit. You
don’t see us really pushing on the limit. Obviously Seb and I had a push in the
middle in our last stint but generally no drivers are really on the limit
today. I don’t know if I answered your question but anyway, that’s my little
rant.
Le preguntan de las
llantas a Webber y aprovecha para tirar otro par de ganchos a Vettel diciendo
que el alemán siente que está fuerte a la mitad de la carrera –miren rivales,
la debilidad de Vettel es al inicio y al final, si logran bloquearlo en la
mitad lo pueden vencer. Adicional a esto, nos dice que no se puede saber quién
es rápido y quién no porque todos están cuidando llantas como explicando, una
vez más, que él podría haberle peleado a Vettel.
Q: (Abhishek Takle - Midday) Mark, obviously emotions still very high
but were the situation reversed in the future, would you stick to an agreement
to turn down the engine and hold station, or would you ignore the call going by
what happened today and pass Seb?
MW: I
think that question is not going to be answered right now. Let’s just say there
were a lot of things going through my mind in the last 15 laps of the Grand
Prix, lots of different reasons, not just from today but also from the past.
We’ll see what happens. We’ve got three weeks before the next race.
¿No cuesta trabajo
intentar? Obviamente no iba a responder eso enfrente de todos porque se
convertiría en una declaración de guerra contra Vettel.
Q: (Ann Giuntini - L’Equipe) We know you are all tough competitors and
it doesn’t belong to us to judge you too severely; just a question: would you
be ready, if there is the opportunity, to offer a victory to Mark, not at the
end of the championship when you are already champion or when it’s over, but
during the season. If there is a tough fight between you, and you are ahead and
he’s behind.
SV: I
think we had that question already. I think it was actually the first question
that I got. I think it’s something we need to think about, I need to think
about but for sure, I can only say this, obviously, like I say, I made a
mistake, I’m not proud of it. As I say, if I had the chance to do it again, I
wouldn’t do the same but obviously there’s a lot of things that need to come
together, to put ourselves in a similar position but yeah, it’s definitely
something that will be remembered or should be remembered.
Muy bien por Vettel
al mantenerse en su posición de no tener que regalar una victoria a Webber. Tal
parece que ya nadie se acuerda de Brasil 2011 –Vettel ya se había coronado y
Webber no había ganado una sola- cuando el alemán le cedió el liderato al
australiano a la mitad de la carrera argumentando un “problema” en la caja –igual
terminó segundo y diez segundos por delante de Button. Al menos, para la moral
de Webber, ya prometió no hacer lo mismo otra vez.
Q: (Gary Meenaghan - The National) Seb, Mark’s mentioned he thought
about a lot of things for the last 15 laps, can you talk a bit about what you
were thinking in those last 15 laps and when did you realise that you’d made
the mistake?
SV: As
I said, I didn’t do it deliberately so I didn’t realise I had made a mistake,
only when I came back but by not everybody’s but the team’s reaction, I
realised. I had a very short word with Mark and then it hit me quite hard and I
realised that - language - I fucked up
Aquí llama la
atención que no le hayan dicho nada durante 15 vueltas a Vettel. Es decir que
el equipo vio lo que sucedió y no le dijo nada hasta que terminó la carrera. ¿Ni
siquiera porque Vettel seguía dándole con todo –todavía le sacó seis segundos a
Webber- le mencionaron que cuidara sus llantas o algo? Si no fue así, entonces
Vettel no tiene tanta culpa como podríamos pensar.
Q: (Peter Windsor - F1 Racing) Sebastian, first lap with Fernando
Alonso, did you feel anything in the impact?
SV: Yeah
I was a bit surprised. Obviously I had quite a good launch and I kept the lead
into Turn One. We know that Turn One is not necessarily it, there’s also Turn
Two and I tried to defend and because it was very slippery I had to turn in
into Turn Two and got a little bit of a hit, so I’m not sure whether it was him
or someone else. But when I got the hit and looked into the mirror I saw he was
quite close. I don’t know what happened. I’m pretty sure he carried on after
that. I think Mark passed him straight away. I was only told in the end that he
didn’t finish the race. I don’t whether that is the reason.
Pregunta tonta,
sigamos.
Q: (Livio Oricchio - O Estado de Sao Paulo) A question to all drivers.
What do you think the fans of Formula One will think when they hear or they
read that the winner is saying “I’m sorry to win, the second should be here and
the third says “I’m sorry to be here my team-mate that is fourth should be
here”?
SV: I
think it’s great for you because you have a lot to write about. We have quite a
while until the next race it’s good for you, I’m sure you don’t get bored. I
didn’t say, I think generally, you know I’m not sorry to win, I think we both
of us drove a strong race today but Mark should have won. I did the mistake. I
can only repeat it now. People can think in a way what they want, they will
always make up their own story, but as I said I wasn’t aware until we took off
our helmets really, so I’m sorry for that. But surely I will try to make up,
first of all explain downstairs what happened.
MW: As
I say, I’m a big sports fan and the fans of any sport will want it to be a
perfect world always. We want it to be pure, we want it to be as we see -
football, boxing, cycling, whatever. We want it to be real. But there is an
element of naivety… for me watching some sport as well and in the case of some
Formula One fans watching this situation. It’s impossible for everybody to
understand everything and that’s the same for me watching a football match or a
Champions League match. Sometimes there are things you don’t understand because
sometimes there is naivety
LH: I
don’t have anything to say.
Visiblemente molesto,
Vettel nos dice que los periodistas tendrán mucho de qué hablar y no se
aburrirán –típico humor alemán. Más importante aún, nos deja claro que no está
apenado por ganar, está apenado por el error que cometió –no ser consciente de
la situación de Webber-, pero no por ganar –y no tiene por qué estarlo.
Webber, por otro
lado, tiene cierta razón en decir que los aficionados muchas veces queremos que
el deporte sea lo más puro posible, pero que la situación ya no es así para
ningún deporte. Es cierto, pero hay cosas que se pueden evitar y esta fue una
de ellas.
Hamilton, que estaba
callado desde la pregunta de las buenas dinámicas de equipo, no agrega nada
seguramente porque ya está cansado. Ya dijo veinte veces que Rosberg debería
estar ahí y los pilotos de Red Bull explicaron a detalle el por qué de las
órdenes de equipo así que no hay más que decir.
Conclusiones
Órdenes de equipo o
no, no creo que Vettel haya hecho mal. Sí, entiendo que los equipos quieren que
sus dos autos lleguen bien y sin problemas, pero Vettel iba a rebasarlo tarde o
temprano porque traía mejor auto. Que si el alemán tiene protección del equipo,
se la merece. Webber no ha sido capaz de pelear el título consistentemente aún
cuando tiene uno de los dos mejores autos de la parrilla y el año pasado quedó
sexto en el de pilotos mientras Vettel se coronaba. Si lo pensamos bien, en
Brasil 2012, Webber no hizo absolutamente NADA por ayudar a Vettel obtener su
tercer título, al contrario, batalló con el alemán y dejo –probablemente sin
intención- pasar a los dos Ferrari.
¿Por qué cree que el
equipo ya no le da contratos de más de un año? Simplemente porque saben que lo
pueden reemplazar por alguien del mismo nivel y mucho más joven o por alguien
mucho mejor…o ambas. Está bien, si había órdenes de equipo, Vettel violó un
acuerdo, pero el problema fundamental es que las órdenes de equipo no deberían
de existir. Aún así, mi problema no es con Vettel, es con las órdenes de
equipo. Webber podrá hablar del pasado todo lo que quiera, pero no recuerdo una
sola ocasión en la que él estuviera mejor y lo hayan mandado a mantener la
posición detrás de Vettel y sobre lo de Turquía, bueno, ya se escribió mucho en
su momento.
Las órdenes de equipo
no quitan la maniobra de Webber y siento que es algo que se ha dejado de lado.
Otra situación que nadie checo con Vettel es que hubiera sido bonito que Webber
ganara en su Gran Premio 200, pero a nadie se le ocurrió preguntarle si sabía
de esa situación. Finalmente, le volvieron a preguntar si aceptaba la disculpa
de Vettel cuando salió de la conferencia de prensa y volvió a evitar decir que sí. ¿Tan
difícil es? Que no friegue. Qué bueno que nadie le preguntó si se disculparía
por pintarle dedo a Vettel.
En Mercedes, ya hasta
hablaron de que la situación está resuelta lo cual no dudo pues más que una lucha de poder, creo fue un
mal entendido y Hamilton se aseguró de mostrar que Rosberg era más rápido. Como
se pudo haber arreglado era con una orden sencilla: dejar a Nico pasar e
intentar algo con los Red Bull, si faltando un par de vueltas se veía que no
iba a llegar a ninguna parte, le regresa la posición a Hamilton y listo. Barwn
mencionó que la gasolina no le iba a alcanzar a Rosberg, pero lo podían
intentar.
Lo que sí nos ha
proporcionado esto es mucha diversión con memes como el del quick peddler o la regañada a Vettel.
Además, un par de tweets de Alonso –quien
se perdió estar en ese podio incómodo- o de Raikkonen
que le da un consejo a Webber. El de Raikkonen se podría tomar de dos formas:
a) lo siento, esto sucede, ánimo o b)esto sucede, déjalo ir.
Pronto subiré la segunda parte con todas las secciones usuales.
Pronto subiré la segunda parte con todas las secciones usuales.
Lo que dice Webber en la sala de vencedores es "Multi 21", que básicamente es una configuración o modo de mapeo del motor y es a lo que se refiere Webber al decir "turn the engine down" que es la instrucción que les dio el equipo de controlar la carrera.
ResponderEliminarYo creo que Vettel se vio mal al hacer un berrinche de niño chiquito y no respetar las ordenes de equipo, de las que se a visto beneficiado bastantes veces, a diferencia de Rosberg que aunque era mas rápido jugó para el equipo.
Insisto no me gusto la actitud de Vettel de "Hágase tus ordenes de equipo en los bueyes de mi compadre"
Just my 2 cents
Gracias Moran. No entendí al australiano ya ves que tienen acento horrible. Lo mejor de todo es que dijo varias veces que no lo había hecho intencionalmente, bueno rebasar fue con intención, pero no por romper el acuerdo, ese sí fue sin intención. Nunca se decidió, pero sí se vio mal. Sería excelente que en China este la situación al revés para saber qué pasaría.
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