Soldato
Poor race as usual. Rain gave it a bump from 2 to 4.
Poll: Official 2023 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread - Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo- Round 7
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Soldato
Meh/10, it's Monaco.
Best part for me was the fresh insight from the pitwall from Williams, much better than others they talk to.
Best part for me was the fresh insight from the pitwall from Williams, much better than others they talk to.
Soldato
Watched the start, nothing happened, fast forwarded 50 laps until the rain started, nothing much else happened, it dried, nothing much happened, Verstappen won. 2023 F1 season in a nutshell.
5/10 only because the rain added some interest, even though it made no difference.
5/10 only because the rain added some interest, even though it made no difference.
Can't believe after all that, that the top three didn't change from the grid
Ferrari strategy clown show as usual
Did Russell make a mistake to suddenly drop really far behind Lewis at the end? The c4 highlights cut a few laps and all of a sudden the gap was huge.
Ferrari strategy clown show as usual
Did Russell make a mistake to suddenly drop really far behind Lewis at the end? The c4 highlights cut a few laps and all of a sudden the gap was huge.
Soldato
He made a mistake when going on the new tyres he said, lapse in concentration, locked up and went off track.
I know, but after that, he caught up to Lewis, then he made some irritating radio messages seemingly implying Ham was slow/he was on his gearbox and that he could get Ocon, (whilst seemingly forgetting he was at Monaco where cars spend most of the race up each others gearbox when there is a slightly slower car ahead). Then the highlights cut a few laps and he was suddenly 8 seconds off again.
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I'd tell you, but you'd have to pay for Sky F1 to get the answer.
Soldato
Ahh im not sure which bit then. The lock up is what Russell was talking about in the post race interview, he didn't mention anything else.
Ah ok. Maybe he just burned through his tyres trying to catch Lewis initially then.
Don
Nothing to do with Aston throwing away Alonso's win by putting him on Mediums initially?
That bit confused me too, as he also extended the gap to Leclerc at the same time.
Soldato
May have been the best Monaco race in a number of years, thanks to the rain. Just goes to show that mixed conditions and mixed tyre strategies adds to the excitement.
Soldato
Alonso explained why that happened and was in agreement that the track at that time did warrant medium tyres: "I don’t think the extra stop [first Mediums, then Intermediates] affected the result. It’s always hard to read the race fully from the cockpit, but on the lap I stopped, the track was completely dry apart from Turns Seven and Eight – so why fit Inters, especially when it felt like a small shower and we had plenty of margin behind us? So it was the right decision, and extra safe: but a minute and a half later it was a completely different situation! There was no chance to win today – wet or dry, but we raced aggressively and tried to win it."
So it sounds like it was his decision.
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Meh race is meh.
That being said, the front runners all did an outstanding job in the wet. Verstappen capitalised on his lead and Aston’s faux pas with Alonso’s tyres when he could have easily put it in the wall on extremely used mediums and later a track a tad wet for inters but he kept it together. Unfortunately Perez is losing the battle with himself and his hopes of being a WDC contender are fading.
Ferrari came to the season needing to ace strategy, but they didn’t. Same old gremlins creeping in. Replacing the team principal won’t fix it. Clearly there’s greater issues that need to be fixed.
Still a yawn inducing race overall. It’s only still happening for nostalgia/money.
That being said, the front runners all did an outstanding job in the wet. Verstappen capitalised on his lead and Aston’s faux pas with Alonso’s tyres when he could have easily put it in the wall on extremely used mediums and later a track a tad wet for inters but he kept it together. Unfortunately Perez is losing the battle with himself and his hopes of being a WDC contender are fading.
Ferrari came to the season needing to ace strategy, but they didn’t. Same old gremlins creeping in. Replacing the team principal won’t fix it. Clearly there’s greater issues that need to be fixed.
Still a yawn inducing race overall. It’s only still happening for nostalgia/money.
To be fair, very little chance he would’ve beat MV anyway given they pitted at the optimal time.
Caporegime
He came out 16s behind Max after an extra stop. He was 3s/lap faster on inters initially. He'd have been ahead.
That’s assume RB wouldn’t have reacted and changed. They probably had better foresight on the rain as AM said they underestimated how much rain was on the other side of the track.
If Alonso pitted for inters, RB would have no risk in putting for inters too. He would never have made up that gap because Max was already halfway around the track.
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