Monaco Grand Prix 2016, Monte Carlo - Race 6/21

UTmaniac · 28 May 2016 at 18:13

Kvyat's Monaco weekend just took a tumble, failed scrutineering apparently.

Skeeter · 28 May 2016 at 18:21

utajoker said:
Rain until around 3pm tomorrow? May have been pointless for ricci to do the ssoft run in q2

Well knowing what the FIA are like, that just means they will delay the race start until 4pm.

KiNgPiN83 · 28 May 2016 at 18:54

My predictions for tomorrow:

-Rain second half
-Rosberg DNF plus hissy fit
-Hamilton first
-Riciardo second
-Verstappen to make a massive hash of coming through the field and takes himself/someone else out
-Vettel moans about something not really worth moaning about
-Kimi has an ice cream

You heard it here first

Sliver · 28 May 2016 at 19:00

Oh not another engine failure for Lewis, what are Mercedes playing at? That's 3 failures this season. :mad:

Sliver · 28 May 2016 at 19:02

Looks like Mercedes have got Lewis's car running again. I hope it holds out.

MissChief · 28 May 2016 at 19:14

UTmaniac said:
Kvyat's Monaco weekend just took a tumble, failed scrutineering apparently.

He and TR were cleared of any wrongdoing.

MooMoo444 · 28 May 2016 at 20:12

Really hoping Hamilton can somehow get Rosberg into turn 1. Is Rosberg stays 2nd, or worse gets 1st, he'll get the premier pit times and it's all over

this_is_gav · 28 May 2016 at 21:38

Sliver said:
Oh not another engine failure for Lewis, what are Mercedes playing at? That's 3 failures this season.

It was hardly an engine failure. :rolleyes:

koolpc · 28 May 2016 at 22:05

Anything is possible in F1.

Sliver · 28 May 2016 at 22:25

this_is_gav said:
It was hardly an engine failure.

I was posting in real time as the Channel 4 team were reporting the incident. But thanks for roll eyes, and here's some for you. :rolleyes:

smr · 28 May 2016 at 23:06

IPBA said:
The quickest Red Bull qualified 0.680 behind Lewis in Spain which is mainly an aero track. Sector 3 which all the commentators said was an indication of Monaco, the Mercs were the fastest. So what you are saying is all of a sudden on another aero track and in the space of two weeks the Mercs have lost pace. 0.68 + 0.6 in two weeks. I admit it will be close because this track cancels out the the need to have a strong drivetrain but the Merc chassis is by no means inferior to the Red Bulls.

smr · 28 May 2016 at 23:09

Skeeter said:
This is why Monaco is a vital part of F1. Its not a crap track, its a difficult track. The margin of error is zero, yet to do well you have to push 110%.

The lack of any racing is made up for by seeing the drivers properly tested for one of the only times all year. I love playing this track in games because nailing a perfect lap feels genuinely like a real achievement.

Max cut a corner by 1cm too much, and starts last. You could miss an apex by 5m in Russia and barely notice it!

It's an epic Qually circuit, one of the best easily... but race day comes and all that excitement from watching a good qually session (as they always are here whatever the weather) can turn an average race into a completely sterile one.

There have been good races in the dry but it's difficult for the place to produce classic races.

smr · 28 May 2016 at 23:19

Merlin5 said:
Alonso beats Button again and Button fails to get into Q3. Time to quit F1, Jensen?

Because points are awarded on Saturdays. :rolleyes:

Skeeter · 28 May 2016 at 23:36

smr said:
Because points are awarded on Saturdays.

I'm pretty certain you've pulled a qualifying result stat out at some point to defend Button.

smr · 28 May 2016 at 23:43

Skeeter said:
I'm pretty certain you've pulled a qualifying result stat out at some point to defend Button.

Nej.

The_Abyss · 29 May 2016 at 00:06

Skeeter said:
This is why Monaco is a vital part of F1. Its not a crap track, its a difficult track. The margin of error is zero, yet to do well you have to push 110%.

The lack of any racing is made up for by seeing the drivers properly tested for one of the only times all year. I love playing this track in games because nailing a perfect lap feels genuinely like a real achievement.

Max cut a corner by 1cm too much, and starts last. You could miss an apex by 5m in Russia and barely notice it!

The only difference between Monaco and other circuits are the barriers. The racing has been terrible for years. It is just another street circuit, and the worst one for racing *.

At least the rain might make a race of it this year. Awesome performance from Ricciardo though, absolutely awesome.

* Baku pending.

Cosimo · 29 May 2016 at 08:40

el_dazza · 29 May 2016 at 08:52

Looks like it's going to be rather damp for the race. I like wet races :cool:

utajoker · 29 May 2016 at 10:09

Soo, is it raining this morning?

antijoke · 29 May 2016 at 10:23

So yesterday during the qualifying they showed an info graphic on Sky F1 that had the a amount of parts Hamilton had used to far, one was an engine the other where what I assume is recharge units or something, but my question is this, what do these mean? Are they only allowed a certain amount of these parts? I know they can only have certain engines but one part was like 4/5 or something, so what happens when they reach these limits and need additional parts? Infinite penalties per race?

I'm not up in all the regulations with F1 as frankly they bore me to death.