Formula 1: Vettel is a vandal!

The youngest F 1 champion to date, Sebastian Vettel, continues to amaze. At 23 years old, one would think that he would be as frail as glass, but, if his performance last season is anything to go by, it is abundantly clear that he is as strong as Hercules.

At the Australian GP on Sunday, Vettel and Red Bull Racing (RBR) continued their relentless campaign for F1 supremacy. In qualifying, the alarm indicating impending disaster rang repeatedly as Vettel secured another pole.

RBR

It was suggested in testing and clearly expressed in qualifying that the RBR machine had lost none of its razor sharp performance. In fact, it was intimated that Adrian Newey had improved the demolition capacity of RBR’s aerodynamically superior weapon.

If you were in doubt, the first lap of the Australian GP should have served as an eye opener. Vettel got an excellent start and led into turn 1. At the end of lap 1 he led by 2 seconds! If you speak F1 language, that is a monumental gap. I am positive that at the end of lap 1, jaws were dropping like flies after an insecticide bomb run!

Vettel did not look back and like a derailed train at the behest of a certified maniac, Vettel the vandal created puzzle pieces from the carbon fiber fragments left behind after he destroyed McLaren, Ferrari and company!

When Vettel took the chequered flag, he was 22 seconds ahead of former world champion Lewis Hamilton. The surprise of the race, Vitaly Petrov, was ecstatic in third. I am positive that the engineers at McLaren and Ferrari have been confined to their respective laboratories as they search for Vettel’s kryptonite. Round 2 in Malaysia, April 10th, will tell us if they found it.

Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer