Red Bull drivers led a charmed life on Sunday.While no one can dispute that Vettel got his act together when it mattered and managed to be in the right place at the right time, much of his spectacular result can be placed at the feet of profiting from the Safety Car periods that happened when he did. Further, while all the chatter about him passing a car while outside the white lines on lap fourteen, I counted no fewer than four changes of direction while he vigorously defended his position. Vettel comes away very fortunate that he was permitted to continue without a sterner penalty than just giving back the position.
Webber, on the other hand. His first collision I can excuse as a racing incident. The collision with Massa similarly I would be willing to write off as a racing incident. But my view is he caused Massa to spin -- the long-lens footage is inconclusive, but the in-car camera from Massa's car clearly shows Webber charging back on-track in front of the Ferrari, causing Massa to take abrupt avoiding action.
Massa was right to be incensed that no action was taken. I wonder how the stewards would have ruled had Massa failed to take avoiding action and clobbered the Red Bull instead?
The comentators gleefully claiming that Webber had "frightened Massa into a spin" didn't help, either.
Frankly when Webber happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time once too often and got clobbered by Grosjean's avoiding action, I thought it was merely karma.
It isn't in Webber's history to drive like this. I hope this is merely a one-off performance, and not an indication of things to come.
