Rather than being beaten on the track, Vettel and Red Bull are conspiring, in a number of ways, to beat themselves. So, what's going wrong? Car, team, and driver have all hampered Vettel's success Image: picture alliance/dpa Vettel himself has started from the front in half of this season's races, but he's only finished there twice in ten attempts. In qualifying, the Red Bull cars reign supreme, having secured pole position nine times out of ten so far.

But this rule is not quite as set in stone as you might think, and Vettel and his Red Bull team have done a stellar job of disproving it in 2010. Generally speaking, the fastest car on the track will win races. It's probably fair to say the 23-year-old should have done better in the opening ten rounds of the season. Sebastian Vettel has further cemented his reputation as a future German world champion this season, driving probably the best car on the grid, and notching up two race wins, so far.īut Vettel's performance has been deceptively disappointing mechanical problems, driver errors, and the occasional display of immaturity have all combined to put the German in a mysterious fourth position in the title race, when he could have amassed a commanding lead in a more trouble-free campaign. If seven-time champion Michael Schumacher's comparatively unsuccessful Formula One comeback has disappointed his legions of fans, German petrol heads have a potential, or even probable winner to cheer for at Hockenheim this weekend.

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