Monaco Grand Prix 2012, Monte Carlo - Race 6/20
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They are using the super-soft through, don't forget. Which is made from Babybel. The hard is made from Cheddar.
theres no high speed corners though so aslong as people arent power sliding they shouldnt grain and wear to bad once your in a decent position you should be able to go as slow as you want on most of the apexes without risk of beeing overtaken.
apart from racasse ands whatever the corner is called before the hotel tunnel
apart from racasse ands whatever the corner is called before the hotel tunnel
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nice Duke, good OP 
Lets hope Mclaren have learned from their screw ups and let lewis run away with a win like he should had done in spain.
Lets hope Mclaren have learned from their screw ups and let lewis run away with a win like he should had done in spain.
Cool, love this race, just tense and silly.
Already got my few quid left over from the weekend on either of the merc's on pole (in my eyes the best traction so could be a shout for pole). Want either a renault or sauber to win though for the awesome diver, team mix run to keep going!
Anything can happen at Monaco, still have fond memories of nearly crying when Mark's Williams blew up from the lead...
Already got my few quid left over from the weekend on either of the merc's on pole (in my eyes the best traction so could be a shout for pole). Want either a renault or sauber to win though for the awesome diver, team mix run to keep going!
Anything can happen at Monaco, still have fond memories of nearly crying when Mark's Williams blew up from the lead...
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I have a really bad memory for individual races and what happened, I can't remember why there was a red flag in last years race. Was that the race Button easily raced up to the back of Alonso and Vettel who for some reason were on stupidly old tyres, but after a couple laps trying to overtake completely gave up trying and just followed them around like a big girl hoping they would fall to pieces?
Isn't it a tad presumptuous to assume Button would have won if not for the red flag considering, he couldn't get past them on his tyres at almost their best and he didn't look even slightly like getting past them, without the tyre wear or overtaking places for awful tyres to make a difference?
Either way, I hope something bad happens in quali so all the faster cars get stuck half way down the grid(or further) again, otherwise it will be an absolute snoozefest.
Isn't it a tad presumptuous to assume Button would have won if not for the red flag considering, he couldn't get past them on his tyres at almost their best and he didn't look even slightly like getting past them, without the tyre wear or overtaking places for awful tyres to make a difference?
Either way, I hope something bad happens in quali so all the faster cars get stuck half way down the grid(or further) again, otherwise it will be an absolute snoozefest.
Last Williams to win at Monaco was in 2003 with Montoya at the controls (he was in contention for the WDC until his penalty at the US GP that year).
If I recall correctly, it was because of the Hamilton-Sutil-Alguersuari-Petrov collision at the swimming pool chicane.
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Yeah it was because Petrov hit the barrier relatively slowly and immediately complained to the marshalls about his back.
Since it was only a few laps before the end, wouldn't the race just have ended under the safety car instead?
Last Williams to win at Monaco was in 2003 with Montoya at the controls (he was in contention for the WDC until his penalty at the US GP that year).
Ahhhh! I was warmly remembering about the 2006 race, had the best qualifying of MSc "parking" it and a mate of mine shouting "IS HE ALLOWED TO DO THAT?!?!?!" with me screaming "HE'S PARKED IT THE CHEAT"
The race its self had Webber's exhaust breaking and Kimi's heat shield catching fire removing everyone I wanted to win in comedy style and DC coming 3rd in the Red Bull!
With a possible spinal injury and no way to assess the driver without having a number of people on the track on the racing line, it had to be red flagged.
Spunkey thinks otherwise, but that's his prerogative. I brought up the safety car alternative because that's been done before at Canada and Nurburgring when drivers were injured but the track wasn't completely blocked (eg Diniz being knocked on his head by Wurz in 1999, or Frentzen's brake failure).
Since the race was over 90% done and got red flagged, race control may as well have ended it there and declared the results as per the previous lap. Case in point, Brazil 2003 after the Alonso-Webber incident.
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It's hard to tell with the tyres being the lottery they are at the minute.
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Mercedes seem to have great mechanical grip. Renualt engined cars also have great driveability. I'd expect Vettel to do very well.
This is one race where i really miss watching Kubica
This is one race where i really miss watching Kubica
