Luckless Vettel misses out again

SEBASTIAN VETTEL was left cursing the stewards after failing to win yet another race from pole, with salt rubbed into the wounds as Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber romped to victory in Hungary.

Only once from seven pole positions this year has Vettel taken the chequered flag and but for a safety car, a dodgy radio and those stewards, he would have improved that statistic at the Hungaroring.

When the safety car was deployed at the end of lap 15, Vettel had built up a cushion of over 10 seconds over Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and seemed set to cruise to the line.

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