We had recently reported about Vettel’s outburst against Narain Karthikeyan calling him a cucumber after they had an accident during last week’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang. Due to the collision Sebastien Vettel was able to secure only 11th place in the race.
Narain called Vettel’s outburst unprofessional, an opinion which most of us share.
“For a world champion to say things like that is really shameful,” Karthikeyan told the Hindustan Times which is an Indian Daily.
“It is really unprofessional.”
“For a driver who has achieved so much to take out his frustrations on me just because he is having a difficult year is really sad. One does not expect a professional sportsman to be such a cry baby.”
Narain Karthikeyan was not very happy about the stewards decision to handle him a drive through penalty. He hinted that Vettel had influenced their decision and he was not given a chance to defend himself.
“The race stewards didn’t care about what I had to say because Mr Vettel told them God knows what when he went and talked to them,” he said.
I think that when a person like Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel crys because they are happy to become great achievements and conquer the sport of formula 1. i disagree when Narain Karthikeyan to have a cheek to call Seb Vettel a cry baby, this indian guy dont realise how drivers feels when he hasnt achieved nothing he is a insault to injury. he do not deserve to be a formula 1 racing driver, he has got hatred and jealousy running through his blood, if he said that to me i would have him thrown out of formula 1 and banned for life.
Mrs Gail j Gray
2 Apr 12 at 10:02 pm
On what basis is Narayan Karthikeyan even in F1? He is by no means a driver of any reputable standards. He’s even not at par with Pedro De La Rosa. What could HRT possibly hope to achieve by being in F1?
The answer is simple: HRT is here for the short haul. Make money through the huge sponsorship brought in by Karthikeyan and somewhat from De La Rosa. Their cars are 6-7 seconds off the pace, and it will remain that way. It’s not because HRT can’t do better. It’s because their business model is simple: make money by getting lots of sponsorship funds, but channel a very tiny quantity of the same to their F1 budget. The net result is the entrepreneurs at HRT making good money.
Karthikeyan is marketed in India as the “fastest Indian”, so with a billion dreaming, sponsors are guaranteed. But, it gets really boring to see him amount to nothing weekend after weekend in the eyes of the Indian people, who tend to dream big. Unfortunately, Karthikeyan can never get anywhere remotely close to 10th place even if here were driving a Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari or Mercedes. Count all possible parallel galaxies where he could race, and he still wouldn’t get anywhere close to 10th place.
So, the sponsors are worried. What do you do? You create an incident and get the whole Indian population behind him. The only question is, how long will gimmicks like this last before the FIA puts in strong regulations to separate those who’re in it for the sport and those who’re in it for commercial exploitation.
What basis
13 Apr 12 at 9:53 am