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Felipe Massa disagrees
Felipe Massa disagrees
Everyone always says they are on a knife edge inches from the walls, but every race every year all the drivers do the same thing lap after lap never touching the walls.
I dont think it is like they make out.
The drivers do not race flat out so are almost never going to hit the walls.
And off we go
RB been made to put the camera in the right place.
Are we thinking Mercedes are going to continue to dominate, or could Red bull's good chassis cause an upset?
I don't understand how real F1 fans cannot love F1 at Monaco?!
Its pure driving, on the razors edge. 1 tiny mistake can end the race. There is a reason why the drivers hold victory here in such high esteem.
F1 and Monaco are the finest of bedfellows.
Well if we're making wild predictions with no basis then I'll join the club too.
Prediction: The sky will remain blue for the foreseeable future.
Exactly this!
Well the sky isn't actually blue........ it just looks blue to us due to the scattering of the blue wavelengths of light by the air molecules
1 Fernando Alonso 14 Ferrari 1:18.482
2 Lewis Hamilton 44 Mercedes 1:18.901
3 Sebastian Vettel 1 Red Bull 1:19.017
4 Jean-Eric Vergne 25 Toro Rosso 1:19.351
5 Valtteri Bottas 77 Williams 1:19.421
6 Sergio Perez 11 Force India 1:19.668
7 Nico Hulkenberg 27 Force India 1:19.712
8 Jenson Button 22 McLaren 1:19.721
9 Daniel Ricciardo 3 Red Bull 1:19.779
10 Kevin Magnussen 20 McLaren 1:20.230
11 Felipe Massa 19 Williams 1:20.394
12 Daniil Kvyat 26 Toro Rosso 1:20.622
13 Adrian Sutil 99 Sauber 1:20.811
14 Maldonado 13 Lotus 1:20.977
15 Gutierrez 21 Sauber 1:21.467
16 Romain Grosjean 8 Lotus 1:21.700
17 Kamui Kobayashi 10 Caterham 1:21.924
18 Jules Bianchi 17 Marussia 1:21.937
19 Max Chilton 4 Marussia 1:22.683
20 Nico Rosberg 6 Mercedes 1:22.862
21 Marcus Ericsson 9 Caterham 1:23.164
22 Kimi Raikkonen 7 Ferrari 1:45.509
I reckon sebastians magic safety car will put him in second. Just sayin'
To be fair to Maldonado (and I've not said that much), he's raced here 3 times in F1 and arguably he wasn't responsible for any of his retirements - he was taken out by Hamilton, caught up in the knock on effect of Grosjean hitting Schumacher, and then hit by Chilton.
As they are currently talking about, the last 10 mins of fp2 was effectively like qualifying, with everyone getting blocked, on such a tight track with little to no overtaking being easily doable. With a clear lap I'd bank on Hamilton, but with such squirmy cars somewhere like this really swings to Alonso/Hamilton over everyone else for me.
It does irk me, there is no particular reason that qualifying sessions should be the same length at every race. Of course you still tend to have a fastest time to be on track and a longer session wouldn't change that, but it does make it easier for at least everyone to get a clean lap. Likewise crashes/yellow flags(for a decent amount of time) or a red flag and they don't add time on to the session has always been retarded.