Monaco Grand Prix 2013, Monte Carlo - Race 6/19

MooMoo444 said:
Both Mercs on the front row, this is going to be godly. I hope they hold up everyone and we get some close racing :D
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It was great last race with the Mercs holding up the bunch for sometime, rather than Vettel just pulling away at the front.
 
chriscatt said:
Martin Whitmarsh on JB:
"Jenson was disappointed to end up only ninth, disadvantaged as he was by a power loss that prevented him from essaying a final quick lap in Q3. We don’t yet know for certain what caused that power loss, but we’d already seen signs of it at the end of Q2. We’ll investigate. It was a pity because, as he always does at Monaco, Jenson had been driving really well. That being the case, I’m sure he could have qualified quite a bit closer to the front had he had another lap in which to do so."

Of course JB was lying when he said over the radio that he had some kind of power loss...
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Pfft it hardly affected him much anyway. I rate Perez to be just as fast if not faster over one lap than Jenson and Jenson was only half a second off Perez.

At the most it has lost Jenson 2 places...but more likely one.
 
Random fact from F1 racing mag this month: Merc changed from Brembo to CI brakes this year, as Hamilton used them at Mclaren & they are suited to very hard brakers like Ham & Rosberg.
 
Duke said:
Random fact from F1 racing mag this month: Merc changed from Brembo to CI brakes this year, as Hamilton used them at Mclaren & they are suited to very hard brakers like Ham & Rosberg.
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Nothing particularly new there. Some drivers change brake material depending on what track they are at. Depending on if they want the initial bite, or the more progressive feel, or even the life of the brake material.

It's often common to have different brake material used on each side of the garage.
 
Flibster said:
Nothing particularly new there. Some drivers change brake material depending on what track they are at. Depending on if they want the initial bite, or the more progressive feel, or even the life of the brake material.

It's often common to have different brake material used on each side of the garage.
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Oh yeah I know, just saying :)
 
Massa claims he was caught out by a bump in the track and that caused him to crash.

Riiiiiiiiiight... :D

And from Joe Saward
Several high level Mercedes people spotted going into the Williams motorhome and into an office, and emerging shortly after.

Williams-Mercedes for 2014+ then.
 
Yeah there were rumours a few days ago, bit surprising the move away from Renault so quickly?
 
utajoker said:
Where has Maldonado got the reputation of 'Monaco specialist'?
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Lower series. He won in World Series and 3 times in GP2.

He also nearly killed a marshal and was banned from the place until daddy got his cheque book out.

Flibster said:
Nothing particularly new there. Some drivers change brake material depending on what track they are at. Depending on if they want the initial bite, or the more progressive feel, or even the life of the brake material.

It's often common to have different brake material used on each side of the garage.
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McLaren ran different brakes (discs and pads) between Button and Hamilton. Maybe Rosberg has found a bit more speed from the new compounds that Hamilton brought to the team?

Flibster said:
And from Joe Saward
Several high level Mercedes people spotted going into the Williams motorhome and into an office, and emerging shortly after.

Williams-Mercedes for 2014+ then.
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I thought the Renault deal was 3 years? But with the loss of McLaren, Merc will be looking for new customers and Renault are rumoured to be the most expensive (by quite some way) of the V6 engine suppliers.
 
Has Hamilton ever been out qualified 3 times on the trot by anyone? Let alone by someone getting pole 3 times on the trot. I've always liked rosberg but I didn't think for a minute he would beat hamilton this often over one lap especially under the pressure of Hamilton.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Whilst I didn't expect Hamilton to get out qualified, it means nothing if rosberg can't then deliver in the race.
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He has hasn't he? One time he was faster and got told he wasn't allowed to pass, hamilton himself said it was hollow to get a trophy when rosberg was faster than him.

There's no a driver on the grid I'd expect to be regularly faster than Hamilton over one lap, yet rosberg is managing it.
 
In fact looking at it from the races they have both finished:

Malaysia LH 3 NR 4th Rosberg was the faster driver
Bahrain LH 5th NR 9th
Spain LH 12th NR 6th

So only Bahrain he was faster when they both finished.
 
dannyjo22 said:
He has hasn't he? One time he was faster and got told he wasn't allowed to pass, hamilton himself said it was hollow to get a trophy when rosberg was faster than him.

There's no a driver on the grid I'd expect to be regularly faster than Hamilton over one lap, yet rosberg is managing it.
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I said before the season began that Nico has the capacity to beat Lewis, over one lap and during the race, and in China he certainly should have finished ahead of Lewis if not for ridiculous team orders.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Does that race account for how far ahead LH is in the points?
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No his two retirements would do that....

Australia

Räikkönen, Hamilton and Rosberg now held the top three places, all three of them attempting two-stop strategies. Alonso was fourth, Vettel fifth having passed Sutil and Massa dropped to seventh. The two Mercedes started to experience a drop-off in their lap times but Räikkönen was still able to drive at a consistent speed despite having pitted for the tyres four laps before the Mercedes drivers. The tyre issue became academic for Rosberg when he retired close to half-distance with an electrical failure. Hamilton was now vulnerable to the drivers with newer tyres.

China he was done on lap 19 due to suspension trouble. Not exactly sure where he was in comparison.
 
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