Look at what two formula one driver championships at a young age can do to you. It can get you fame and it can make you call people cucumbers.
Sebastien Vettel’s race was ruined by a collision with Narain Karthikeyan towards the end of the race when he suffered a rear tyre puncture causing him to pit and later on the collision also caused other problems to his car, overheating brakes etc.
If you read our live blog (last post), you would see that he also didn’t have radio contact with his team towards the end of his race, his team was frantically asking him to retire, which he didn’t, at first we thought it was only due to his grit to finish the race, but as it turns out it was due to him losing radio contact with his team.
“Most crucially we lost radio communication and that makes it very difficult in these conditions to know what’s going on. Nonetheless, we did our maximum today and got up to fourth.
To then lose the race how I did is very frustrating. Some people (Narain Karthikeyan) need to look more where they are going.
He also added to another media source
As in real life, there are a few cucumbers on the road.” (Referring to Narain Karthikeyan)
Cucumber of course meaning idiot over here. I know Indian drivers can be bad on roads , trust me I have seen 100s of them, but calling Narain a cucumber stems of a little arrogance, watch it there Sebastien, don’t want to go the Lewis Hamilton way there 
. Have a look at the video below where he curses Karthikeyan after the incident, that’s just the index finger though, no middle finger there. Watch it before FIA takes it off Youtube.
Team Principal Christian Horner thankfully was more reserved in his comments :
“The incident with Narain Karthikeyan caused damage to the rear brake duct, which went into thermal runaway,” Horner said.
“We wanted to stop the car before the end from a safety point of view, but Seb couldn’t hear us because of the loss of the radio and continued.
“Thankfully his car got to the end without failing, but the incident cost Sebastian at least a fourth place finish today.”
I am fully in agreement with Sebastien Vettel, Narain drove like a total idiot there and cost the faster Red bull curious positions, you could see how angry Vettel was with his fists up in the air swearing at the cucumber Karthikeyan.
Rob
25 Mar 12 at 6:35 pm
One does not have to be an Indian to be an idiotic driver on the formula one circuit, there are multiple examples, most latest being Romain Grosjean, I want to know Schumacher’s reaction to the nudge he got from him.
Sebastien Vettel’s anger although a little overhyped is understandable.
Sreekanth
25 Mar 12 at 6:38 pm
What kind of propaganda is this , trying to show Vettel as the villain in this whole drama, Narain Karthikeyan was at fault and is most definitely a cucumber
I love Vettel
25 Mar 12 at 6:45 pm
Much like his incident with Webber at Turkey, Vettel makes another assumption that a driver will just move out of his way on a straight.
He made his own mistake with his oversteer correction and for some odd reason then kept parallel to the track for a few seconds instead of moving to the right side for the up-coming left-hander like a normal considerate driver.
Andy
28 Mar 12 at 7:09 am