It is hard to imagine how the Italian Grand Prix could have gone worse for Sebastian Vettel. His conspicuous on-track error (or errors) was one thing. As was that it was hardly his first time in the last year and a bit that he’d goofed. Even that was just the start of it. The context in addition was galling. On the very same afternoon, his young whipper-snapper Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc took his second Formula 1 race win. Both within a week; both mightily impressive. And this latter one was at Ferrari’s resident cathedral of Monza. With that, elevation to hero status in tifosi eyes is almost inevitable. And so, the widely-expressed wisdom goes, there is the yin with the...
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