Vettel: It won't be easy for Jenson

Sebastian Vettel is looking forward to the team-mate battles at the top teams this year, especially the fight between Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button at McLaren and Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso.

With so many drivers in the hunt to win the World Championship, it's quite tough to predict just who will come out on top. Vettel, though, believes the Red Bull combination of himself and Mark Webber is the "most spectacular".

"This season we might get lucky and talk about the racing rather than politics or business," Vettel said in an interview with the Guardian. "We've got Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull. That's four teams and eight drivers. At the moment it's difficult to know who is at the top. One of us will finish first and one of us will finish eighth - with six others between.

"And we have this interesting competition between team-mates. You've got two British drivers in a British team - with [Lewis] Hamilton and [Jenson] Button at McLaren. I don't think it's going to be easy for Jenson. Lewis is very quick and he has known this team for many years. You can see what he did back in 2007 when Fernando Alonso was at McLaren. So I'm very interested to see McLaren and Ferrari [where Alonso and Felipe Massa have had their moments of strife].

"Obviously in Germany people are more interested in Michael and Nico [Rosberg] and a rivalry between two German drivers. A lot of things could happen in all these teams. So I think the most spectacular combination is me and Mark because everyone knows we don't have a problem. Of course I want to beat him every time, and he wants to beat me, but we get along well."

Vettel, who finished just 11 points behind World Champion Button last year, also jokingly claimed that the "old German guy" is stealing his thunder this year.

"You might think I'd get more attention this year," he said, "but there has actually been less focus on me. This is all because some old German guy decided to come back. He is keeping all the German writers very busy and that's good for me. I take my hat off to the old guy."


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