German expected to seal his fourth drivers’ title. Hamilton and Button hail the skills of Red Bull No1. So this is it then. Barring any unforeseen calamities or acts of God, cows wandering on to the Buddh International Circuit for instance and we did have a stray dog on the track here a couple of years ago, so it is not out of the question – Sebastian Vettel should put his rivals out of their misery today and secure his fourth successive world drivers’ championship title. He deserves it.
Yes, the German’s Red Bull machine was, as Lewis Hamilton put it so succinctly after the qualifying session on Saturday, “in another world”, as he racked up yet another pole to add to his groaning list of accomplishments. But for the relentlessness with which Vettel gets the job done, the fact that he has now almost entirely subjugated his team-mate Mark Webber – a man whose considerable talents are often overlooked in the rush to put Vettel down – and the surgical precision with which he does everything, the German is fully deserving of his place in history. It does nothing to make the spectacle any more exciting, of course.
A grand prix is denuded of a certain frisson when you know more or less with complete certainty who is going to win before it starts. Vettel, however, can hardly be blamed for that, as his rivals have all conceded. McLaren’s 2009 world champion Jenson Button even admitted that he had been forced to revise his assessment of the 26 year-old. “He is a great driver,” Button admitted, when asked why it was that so many were reluctant to give Vettel credit. “I don’t know why that is.
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