2011 Monaco Grand Prix Thread (Official)

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Originally Posted by truefan72

the fact that mansel with a quicker car ( or as a quicker driver) could not get past senna and basically had to follow him around with no chance to overtake does not make for a thrilling race IMO.

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Au contraire, it was great racing. If Mansell would have breezed by with DRS then there would have been no racing at all.

Anyway it is obvious that we do not have the same definition for what racing is about.

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Originally Posted by jens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2BMM71S14
To whoever hasn't seen yet. :laugh: Grosjean didn't even get a proper timed lap as there was always roadblock in front of him. Crazy crazy stuff.

Race was a bit messy too. One of the highlights of this GP2 event - both iSport drivers have crashed into each other. :D

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GP2 field = bunch of idiots.

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Originally Posted by Sonic

Class event. Was it also the race where Schumacher raced the McLaren? Or rather DC was forced to use Schu's back up skid lid ;) Still a weird sight, the white, yellow and red (as it was in those days) helmet in the red and white McLaren.

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Yep.

I know its late, but just for you Sonic.

http://static.blogo.it/motorsportblo...asco_schui.jpg

It will be an interesting qually session. Hard to say if RB were sandbagging, but my guess is that they were. I was shocked at some of the long runs by some drivers. It looks like even the super softs have some life in them, and strategy could play a huge role in the race.

Red Bull always go fast in FP1, in FP2, not so much and in qualy they again strike hard. However, today it will be a lot closer than in Barcelona, IMO. Which, BTW, means nothing. In Malaysia the qualy was very close and look what happened in the race. In China and Spain the gap was huge and the races were very close.

We should get a busy Qualifying here today, as no one can only do 1 run and save tyres for the race.

This is one of the few races this year where like the old days Qualifying will be key.

On most other tracks with the exception of maybe Hungary you can now pass with fresher tyres.

Not here so expect two full runs in Q3

Rosberg has crashed in FP3 and he's basically destroyed his car. Will he be able to do qualifying? Mercedes will only have [less than] three hours to repair his car, so it looks unlikely.

OMG nasty crash by Rosberg
thankfully he walks away
could have been really bad if he hit that barrier

man Monaco is not his track
I hope he'll be ready for Q1

Liuzzi writes of a HRT car, way to go Tonio! On the positive side he can watch the race tomorrow from the deck of a yacht if he wants to.

Both Rosberg and especially Liuzzi will struggle to get there cars repaired by Q1.

On a positive note, both Hispania's were well within a 107% time this morning.