Bourdais hasn’t really performed and has been outshined by his teammate time and again. As a result of this, Vettel will be starting 2009 alongside Mark Webber as a Red Bull driver.
In Hungary, Vettel blew up in the heat and Bourdais was dead last in 18th place and was lapped three times by the lead pack. Not a great finish.
In fact, it had been an awful weekend altogether for the Italian-based team. That doesn’t bode well for the next track, as it's a new one for the Formula 1 season.
Will Valencia put another disappointing weekend on the cards for Toro Rosso? I hope not, because Vettel has been one of my favourite drivers this year, and I would love to see him find that sweet spot and maybe even outrun one of the Red Bull sister cars. Let’s hope for a shock after the holiday.
Force India
Last but by certainly no means least are the foundations of both the Drivers Championship table and the Constructors table, Force India, still without any points.
I wouldn’t say it’s been a bad year for Mallya’s boys, they have managed to shave off a big chunk of their lap times to bring them in line with the rest of the field.
While they are still not blistering and are not competitive, they are still up there and within one second of the front runners, I would say that this is very impressive pace for the team, which is approaching its first birthday.
Wonder if I get an invite to this one, I have heard the boat is just lovely?
I think it goes without saying that the back end of the season will be a further testing time for the Force Indias. They should just focus on doing as well as they can and developing the life out of those cars and hopefully be more of an entity in the 09 season.
Here’s how the bottom half of the drivers table looks:
(Top half of drivers table and constructors table available on Part 1)
Drivers Championship (Bottom):
- 11. Nelsinho Piquet (Renault) - 13
- 12. Rubens Barrichello (Honda) - 11
- 13. Nico Rosberg (Williams) - 8
- 14. Kazuki Nakajima (Williams) - 8
- 15. David Coulthard (Red Bull) - 6
- 16. Sebastian Vettel (Torro Rosso) - 6
- 17. Jenson Button (Honda) - 3
- 18. Sebastien Bourdais (Torro Rosso) - 2
- 19. Giancarlo Fisichella (Force India) 0
- 20. Adrian Sutil (Force India) - 0
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