After two rounds of the 2010 Formula One season, and going into the third race of the season, Sebastien Vettel seems unconcerned by Red Bull’s unreliability so far. Perhaps he should really think it over and realize that this statement might just only be positive PR and nothing more really. For the championship table spells it out as it is and they are seldom lies.

Sample this: Fernando Alonso heads the Drivers’ championship with 37 points and Vettel is a huge 25 points adrift already. If the spark plug in the Renault engine hadn’t shorted out in Bahrain and the brakes hadn’t failed in Australia, the German would have been sitting on 50 points. Then his statement wouldn’t have made much of a difference, for right now it does.

Considering that spark plug was not in anybody’s control but the brakes failed in Melbourne because the tyres hadn’t been put on properly is a testament to the fact that team Red Bull are feeling the pressures just a wee bit. It can happen when you know that you have arguably the fastest car on track and just need to complete the race to win. But championships are won on reliability and consistency, not making mistakes under pressure.

No one knows this better than Alonso. The year was 2005 when Kimi Raikkonen’s McLaren kept exploding just when he would be in sight of victory. But as the Finn would retire, the Spaniard would be right on his heels to pounce on the misfortune. He won races but more importantly collected points throughout the year. Vettel saw that same story last year as well when despite lack of development, Jenson Button wrapped up the championship by sneaking in crucial points in the latter half of the season. All his wins and the buffer of points had come in the first few months of the championship.

What Red Bull and Vettel don’t need at the moment is a tag of chokers; that will only bog them down further knowing that the machinery might give way any moment. They clearly have the car to be ahead of the field on Saturday and if it doesn’t rain on Sundays, as it won’t on most through the year, the norm of one stop strategies should be enough to get them across to the Chequered Flag first. Atleast that should have happened in the first two races but it didn’t. Guess who took advantage: Ferrari and Alonso. Red Bull really wouldn’t want to make it three races in a row!