lamo wrote:
I think spatial awareness is definitely a Vettel weakness. Found this clip by accident when watching Perez's joke to his engineer that his engine had failed on the last lap in Suzuka 2011. Vettel turns in on Schumacher oblivious that he is there and MS has to run the kerb to avoid him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGv4yrmBVHkIt may well be, but I think it worth bearing in mind that Schumacher is moving alongside a driver who is saluting the crowd, after becoming world champion again. If I understand some of the comments in this thread correctly, it was the overtaker who has to look out, not the picker-upper-of-marbles, or in this case the celebrating champion.
I believe, as somebody pointed out after Singapore, that the wider rear wheels may well be a factor that some drivers find harder to compensate for.
The overtaker did look out and avoided Vettel's car, also what helped is that the 2 cars were going at close to the same speed, and I would say that what didn't help was the 2 cars having to negotiate a corner, on a straight you don't have the same problem.