2008 Monaco GP - Race 6/18

An interesting session; Hamilton was awesome quick from lap 1, all of the other drivers took a few laps to get the feel of the car and track. Piquet was all over the road showing his lack of experience.

A couple of drivers touched the barriers including Raikkonen but got away with it.

It's great they can now show onboard footage throughout the tunnel.
 
Code: 
Pos  Driver        Team                     Time              Laps
 1.  Raikkonen     Ferrari             (B)  1:15.948            26
 2.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:16.216  + 0.268   27
 3.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:16.248  + 0.300   28
 4.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:16.292  + 0.344   26
 5.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:16.653  + 0.705   27
 6.  Kubica        BMW Sauber          (B)  1:16.834  + 0.886   23
 7.  Alonso        Renault             (B)  1:17.498  + 1.550   25
 8.  Barrichello   Honda               (B)  1:17.511  + 1.563   26
 9.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:17.798  + 1.850   23
10.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:17.835  + 1.887   26
11.  Glock         Toyota              (B)  1:17.942  + 1.994   26
12.  Button        Honda               (B)  1:18.153  + 2.205   26
13.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:18.245  + 2.297   30
14.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber          (B)  1:18.263  + 2.315   13
15.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:18.274  + 2.326   28
16.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:18.360  + 2.412   16
17.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:18.360  + 2.412   25
18.  Piquet        Renault             (B)  1:18.955  + 3.007   32
19.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:19.176  + 3.228   35
20.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault    (B)  No time              3

Real ding dong between Hamilton and Raikkonen at the top with a couple of good late runs from Heikki K & Rosberg to move them up the order.

Throttle problem for DC and accidents for Trulli & Heidfeld
 
Onboard footage through the tunnel is awsome! Anyone know how its done? As usually onboard shots cut out when going under anything wider than an electrical cable!
 
Code: 
Pos  Driver        Team                     Time              Laps
 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:15.140            40
 2.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:15.533  + 0.393   39
 3.  Raikkonen     Ferrari             (B)  1:15.572  + 0.432   42
 4.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:15.869  + 0.729   37
 5.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:15.881  + 0.741   39
 6.  Kubica        BMW Sauber          (B)  1:16.296  + 1.156   34
 7.  Alonso        Renault             (B)  1:16.310  + 1.170   27
 8.  Button        Honda               (B)  1:16.351  + 1.211   45
 9.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:16.372  + 1.232   40
10.  Barrichello   Honda               (B)  1:16.418  + 1.278   32
11.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber          (B)  1:16.426  + 1.286   44
12.  Glock         Toyota              (B)  1:16.688  + 1.548   46
13.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:17.094  + 1.954   39
14.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:17.131  + 1.991   39
15.  Piquet        Renault             (B)  1:17.246  + 2.106   35
16.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:17.251  + 2.111   33
17.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:17.379  + 2.239   28
18.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:17.581  + 2.441   38
19.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:18.176  + 3.036   31
20.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:18.225  + 3.085   38
 
One thing I do like about Hamilton is that he is a true racer and wants to win everything. He even wants to be top of the time sheets in practise sessions, which count little else than bragging. This used to be the case in the days when Mansell and Senna would vie for the fastest times. Even when it didnt count, they would still want to show to eachother and everybody else that they were the fastest. They would work on their set-ups and towards the end of the sessions would empty the fuel tanks, run on fumes and try and go as fast as they could.

Then of course, Michael Schumacher arrived and showed that being fastest in practise sessions counted for little. But being fastest in qualifying and in the race was everything.

Hamilton, for me, is a driver in the same vein as Senna and Mansell, than Schumacher. I do like his style. I do look forward to seeing some great, close-run races, later this year.
 
sunama said:
One thing I do like about Hamilton is that he is a true racer and wants to win everything. He even wants to be top of the time sheets in practise sessions, which count little else than bragging. This used to be the case in the days when Mansell and Senna would vie for the fastest times. Even when it didnt count, they would still want to show to eachother and everybody else that they were the fastest. They would work on their set-ups and towards the end of the sessions would empty the fuel tanks, run on fumes and try and go as fast as they could.

Then of course, Michael Schumacher arrived and showed that being fastest in practise sessions counted for little. But being fastest in qualifying and in the race was everything.

Hamilton, for me, is a driver in the same vein as Senna and Mansell, than Schumacher. I do like his style. I do look forward to seeing some great, close-run races, later this year.
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I get what your saying. It was nice to see some tussles and racing moves during the fuel burn phase of the old style Q3, proved they were actualy out there to be the best all the time.

Practice is always obscure however, because you may fight to be fastest, but there will always be the midfield runners doing low fuel fast laps that get in the mix, often with more of the attention on them.
 
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