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Originally Posted by S griffin
Max gets a record breaking 14 wins. Not surprising considering how dominant the RBR is and how many races we have in the season.
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With all respects The Red Bull was not the most dominant car for much of the season, but they were the most dominant
team. They screwed up far less than Ferrari, whose downfall being reliability, driver error, or strategy and poor management. Mercedes, well they have improved but then threw their one chance away with poor strategy.
Ferrari this year had a championship winning capable car.... Ferrari as a team were not capable of maximising that opportunity
Im not denying that the extra races made
breaking the record easier for Max but in terms of matching it and the number of races making it easy for Max I dont buy it.... Vettel scored his 13th win in the 19th race in 2013.... Max scored his 13th win in the 19th race of this year.
As for Schumacher in 2002 he did have the huge advantage oftyres developed to suit the car by Bridgestone (who sponsored the team and by their own admission
"had a special relationship with Ferrari not shared with any other team", one that was focussed on them winning.) Bridgestone themselves said those words in this interview / article from the period...
The Bridgestone and Ferrari partnership
Ferrari's 53 consecutive podiums 1999- end 2002 is a record which no team, even Mercedes in their years of total dominance has ever managed to get remotely close to and the tyres were much of that success.