Monaco Grand Prix 2010, Monte Carlo - Race 6/19

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Highlights - Monaco GP qualifying
Red Bull's Mark Webber produces a superb display to snatch pole position from Renault's Robert Kubica on the streets of Monte Carlo.

Watch Mark Webber's pole lap
Watch Red Bull's Mark Webber produce a superb time of one minute 13.826 seconds in qualifying to snatch pole position in Monaco.

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Monaco Grand Prix in 90 seconds
Watch short highlights from the Monaco Grand Prix as Mark Webber claims his second win in a week with a superb display on the streets of Monte Carlo.

Highlights - Monaco Grand Prix
Watch Mark Webber produce a scintillating drive to claim victory for Red Bull ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel in an incident-packed Monaco Grand Prix.

Monaco GP - Top three drivers
Red Bull driver Mark Webber describes his win at the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix as "absolutely incredible", team-mate Sebastian Vettel was second and Renault's Robert Kubica third.

Mark Webber's pool party after Monaco win
After winning the Monaco Grand Prix, Red Bull's Mark Webber somersaults into the team pool and celebrates with team mate Sebastian Vettel and the trophy.

Mercedes's Michael Schumacher did not expect penalty
Michael Schumacher insists his last corner overtake on Ferrari's Fernando Alonso should not be punished by the stewards.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton relieved tyres held out
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton says his fifth place finish in the Monaco Grand Prix was "boring" but he was happy that his tyres lasted.

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Baboonanza said:
But that makes no sense. What is the point of Mercedes appealling the decision if there is no hope of actually changing the result? Why waste the money and time?
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In order to update and clarify the rule maybe? and the fact that it was wrong and it's worth trying to get them to admit that both the descision, and the method of punishment are wrong...
 
Well done to Mark and Red Bull - fully deserved and Mark worked hard for it (with all the sc's ruining any lead he built up) even though it made it a VERY dull race to watch

Dont particularly think Alonso had to work that hard for his 6th place - majority of the cars he over took on the race track where back markers who didnt fight particularly hard (a few could have fought - and should have fought - harder), all the rest were retirements or done in the pits.

(Mark had to fight a lot harder with all the SC's than Alonso did for their relative positions imo)

As for the Schumi incident......I cant believe Im saying this.....but Schumi deserves the place, at the end of the day the Marshals were waving green flags which has always meant "racing is ok" - not stay in position. The only reason this has even come to light is because the FIA cant (re)write the rule book without condridicting itself - which imo it clearly does in this case

Gutted for JB - total McLaren **** - hopefully this isnt too costly in his title bid, was certainly good enough for 5th/6th place without that (even with the awful start - which could easily have been down to that also)
 
Regarding the Scumacher debacle I think the stewards/marshalls are to blame, there seemed to be a lot of confusion about the state of play.

I put it down to incompetance on their part.
 
I hope people realise that Damon was only one of the people deciding whether it was a legit overtake or not - its not like he has the final / only say, thats the media /ill informed pundits trying to make a "scandal" out of nothing.

The above isnt helped by race control / fia making it impossible to be right or wrong (ie either way someone would rightfully be complaining)

As I said in an earlier thread (when JB was criticized for backing the pack up too severely) I cant see any reason at all to change the "overtake after a sc" from the start/finish line in the first place
 
Wasn't he there as an "advisor" (i.e had no actual vote as such)

(not that would mean anything to the scandal makers)

my 0.02p - 2 conflicting rules - Schumacher should be reinstated back to 7th and rule cleared up.
 
sunama said:
Has Barrichello mentioned anything about throwing the steering wheel out of the car, so flippantly?
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My own feeling is that he didn't have the intention of "throwing" it out of the cockpit. It looked like he meant to place it on the top of the car but with a bit too much force behind it and the wheel bounced off and onto the racing line.

No record of Barrichello getting a fine for not placing the steering wheel back on, according to Viva F1 penalties.

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stockhausen said:
Very likely, the media have papers to sell and the Schumacher fanboys have never believed that he should be subject to the same rules as everyone else and Damon Hill certainly has good reason not to be a fan of the cheating Schumacher.
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Why am I so surprised to see you take this tack, stockhausen?

Oh wait. I'm not.

:rolleyes:

The rulebook needs sorting. For it to be sorted, this penalty needs to be overturned on appeal. Otherwise the new regime at the FIA will have about as much credibility as the old one did by the end.
 
They may well change the rule from here on in, but a retrospective rule change to favour MS is very unlikely.

Face it gents, MS tried the overtake, he made it stick on the track, but the FIA/Stewards are preventing it from counting.
 
Copying from autosport BB.

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So race control also said 'Safety car in on this lap' in Oz 2009... now all they have to explain is the green flags!
 
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