A warning to Vettel and Red Bull: "learn to lose gracefully"

After Valencia there was some harping from Helmut Marko and Sebastian Vettel suggesting a plot to stop Red Bull's dominance by sending out an unnecessary Safety Car and gather the field.

Anyone who saw how much debris Jean Eric Vergne spread around Valencia in his silly attempt to return to the pits after his attack on Angry Bird Kovalainen's right front wheel, certainly would agree with the stewards decision.

But not Mr Marko and Herr Vettel, more than happy to pick on poor Karthikayan but whose sense of humor fails when things don't go his way. Vettel is quoted saying that race control's decision was to clean the track but also to break Red Bull's legs. Marko, as we mentioned before, claimed it was an American style artificial ploy to make the race more interesting.

That was too much for Hans Stuck, president of the German Motorsport Federation (DMSB) who invited Vettel and Marko to think before they speak: "Vettel should learn how to lose, it was clear that there was a dangerous condition on track and there was a real risk of punctures. The stewards made the correct decision"

vergne from AxisOfOversteer on Vimeo.

Can a croc kill the 911?

The 911 death watch rang another bell when Uwe Alzen decided to abandon the 911 platform for his latest race car. It is a fairly obvious choice dynamically even considering the amazing success of the "engine in the wrong place" racers.

We had an earlier post with onboard video from a different race Cayman, here are pictures of Alzen Motorsport's race car. As you can see it is a Cayman only because it's a Porsche and has a mid-engine layout...
Anyway, enjoy these detailed shots, you can even read his spring rate!

I'm not sure of the specs for the car, I read somewhere it might have a Carrera GT V10 engine but if that were the case I would be very surprised as this car got beat recently by a Z4 Coupe-GTR driven by Johannes Stuck, son of Hans and a girl, Claudia Hürtgen who moonlights as one of the Ring-Taxi drivers.

Photos Mike Skowronski, high-speed-corner.de