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Sebastian Vettel has been excoriated for winning the weekend's Malaysian grand prix. This is a bizarre fate for the fastest driver in Formula One. Vettel's supposed crime is to have ignored team orders to stay in second place behind his Red Bull co-driver Mark Webber and instead to have raced past him to finish first. Critics claim that this was unsporting behaviour. But what is the point of being in an F1 race if you are not trying to win? Vettel is world champion. He has been the fastest man on the track for the past three seasons. The whole purpose of the drivers' championship is to win it. The notion that the drivers are in any meaningful sense teammates not rivals in similar cars is absurd. You only have to ask yourself this question – what would Ayrton Senna have done? – to know that Vettel deserves praise not criticism for what he did. With due respect to the Old Testament, the race is normally to the swiftest, and Vettel was the worthy winner.Sebastian Vettel has been excoriated for winning the weekend's Malaysian grand prix. This is a bizarre fate for the fastest driver in Formula One. Vettel's supposed crime is to have ignored team orders to stay in second place behind his Red Bull co-driver Mark Webber and instead to have raced past him to finish first. Critics claim that this was unsporting behaviour. But what is the point of being in an F1 race if you are not trying to win? Vettel is world champion. He has been the fastest man on the track for the past three seasons. The whole purpose of the drivers' championship is to win it. The notion that the drivers are in any meaningful sense teammates not rivals in similar cars is absurd. You only have to ask yourself this question – what would Ayrton Senna have done? – to know that Vettel deserves praise not criticism for what he did. With due respect to the Old Testament, the race is normally to the swiftest, and Vettel was the worthy winner.
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