Poll: Monaco Grand Prix 2022, Circuit de Monaco - Race 7

Rate the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix out of ten

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mjt said:
Would he have been black flagged? What would have happened, because that's blatantly cheating :p
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Not sure about that. He'd just make it look like a braking incident.

Remember Alonso practicing taking the run off on the formation lap in one of the races? That was some fantastic forward thinking. The stewards did nothing. He didn't gain a place or time, but he avoided being mixed up in the pack and so a possible 1st corner collision.
 
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Jono8 said:
Amusing thing about Ocon, is that if he hadn't tried to fight Lewis so much and end up pulling dangerous moves/getting a penalty, he likely would have finished in the points/p8 anyway, and Alpine would have netted more points for the constructors.
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I think he was left out to prevent Hamilton undercutting Alonso? If Ocon managed to defend without giving away a penalty it looked like the optimal thing to do.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Alonso is fairly clever in my opinion, he made a mockery of the race, to show it's not a race and you can dawdle round and not be able to pass - he's shown that now, and educated those not really into F1, it's helped removing it from the calendar. Sure its a nice party weekend if you're there, but, not a good race.
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Alonso rubbishes 'social media talk' over F1 dropping Monaco Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso and other Formula 1 drivers spoke up for the Monaco Grand Prix following speculation over the race's future.
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"Fernando Alonso, who won the race back-to-back in 2006 and 2007, rubbished the idea of dropping it from the schedule.
“I think it has to be in the calendar,” he said. “I don’t see any reason why it should not be in the calendar."

Not that clever if he wanted the race to stay.

this_is_gav said:
In the end only because Hamilton couldn't keep up with Alonso when Alonso let it off the leash near the end. Ocon was right up with Hamilton at the finish, so that shows what the plan was.

It did seem a bit excessive for one or two points, but I suppose they had their fun and it would have made no difference to the finishing order anyway.
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Seemed like it was deliberate from Hamilton rather than not being able to keep up.
 
this_is_gav said:
Indeed, Hamilton did this exact same thing in Abu Dhabi in 2016, trying to get the Ferraris past Rosberg. Schumacher produced a masterclass of it at Sepang in 1999, trying to help Irvine keep his championship hopes alive. I'm sure it's happened on numerous other occasions too which don't as readily come to mind.

I think the Alpine tactic was to ensure both Alonso and Ocon had enough tyres left at the end so they could both pump in big enough laps so that Ocon might stay in the points, but it didn't work out. No harm in trying though.
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Difference being you can overtake there much easier, Monaco..theirs no overtaking.
 
Mr Jack said:
I figure from 7th place, why not risk it?
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Jono8 said:
If we are talking about risks, surely it would have been better to risk slicks early/wait a bit longer to go straight to slicks?
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Checking back on the data, Hamilton was 8th when he went in and he ended up 8th. His strategy didn't cost him anything and, had Ocon not rammed him and trashed his wing, he'd likely have made up positions. Bad driving from Ocon isn't bad strategy from Merc.
 
this_is_gav said:
We don't get many accidents where cars are split in two, but nobody has mentioned Alex Caffi's 1991 crash in the same swimming pool section as Schumacher's crash. Very different to it, but with a similar outcome.

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The one I always remember was at the Canadian Grand Prix in 1990.
Nannini spun into the barriers, and a while later Alesi went off at the same place, hitting the Benetton and breaking the front end off it.

 
Worth noting Alonso saving his tires for the first laps after red flag meant he finished 5 seconds ahead of Hamilton. And it was Hamilton in the end that held up Ocon who was less than half a second behind through the last 10 laps.

Was actually a little annoyed they never showed Hamilton and ocon at the end of the race, they were the 2 closest cars on track.
 
StarShock said:
Worth noting Alonso saving his tires for the first laps after red flag meant he finished 5 seconds ahead of Hamilton. And it was Hamilton in the end that held up Ocon who was less than half a second behind through the last 10 laps.

Was actually a little annoyed they never showed Hamilton and ocon at the end of the race, they were the 2 closest cars on track.
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It's more likely that Hamilton held up Ocon on purpose rather than his tyres were gone.

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StarShock said:
Fair enough, I just wish they had shown us some of that. Certainly would have offered some pathos to the Hamilton was robbed crowd :p
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Monaco TV Direction is ****, everyone knows that! There were quite a few moves that we never saw..

*insert Stroll replay*
 
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