2018 Grand Prix de MonacoFormula 1

[Liquid]

http://www.f1i.com/magazine/53959-barcelona-1994-schumachers-5th-gear-signature-drive.html

Fair enough. Supposed to be true about the '96 drive too.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Fair enough. Supposed to be true about the '96 drive too.

96 was just a masterclass of wet weather driving, nothing to do with car issues.

 

[Jezza819]

That race recap was so annoying. We didn't even get to see the podium questions or the shoey live, they just had the shoey as part of the recap and moved on WTF

Were you watching it on ESPN? Because they did the podium questions before they went up to meet the Prince and receive their trophies. And I think I saw the shoey live but can't be 100% sure about that one.

 

[DesertPenguin]

Yea. They showed the shoey at the end of the recap because the recap played over the actual shoey. Some meta crap right there

 

[Famine]

Stroll's comms today were somehow even more petulant than in qualifying...

 

[GTFan24]

How has the dive from Ricky into the pool not been posted?

 

[Peter.]

Ricciardo and Max sending messages this weekend. Max crashes at Monaco again, blows a chance at a Red Bull whitewash. Ricciardo drove a faultless weekend, and continues to do so while Max continues to get himself into trouble. He isn't learning, while Ricciardo is a few upgrades and good results away from being right in the title fight. Red Bull need to rethink favourites.

 

[Ricca_AMG]

Ricciardo respectfully and well deserved the Monaco race! Congrats

 

[breyzipp]

I’m not even watching F1 anymore in 2018 but I always found Monaco to be one of the more boring circuits.

 

[Wardez]

Strategists be like

 

[lancia delta hf]

I’m not even watching F1 anymore in 2018 but I always found Monaco to be one of the more boring circuits.

At lap 8 I felt like an asteroid hit me in the head ad suddenly thought Christ this is boring as ****. Monaco really is boring.

It's actually the quite opposite. Confirmed by the Drivers and the Paddock. We also know that the F1 management want more City Circuit Grand Prix's, like Miami,

All they confirmed was that Its a special circuit. Sure it is, I love it to. But why is it almost always a crap race year upon year? Because it isn't a good circuit for racing F1. If they want more street circuits you can guarantee they won't be modeled on the right Monaco circuit.

 

[TenEightyOne]

At lap 8 I felt like an asteroid hit me in the head ad suddenly thought Christ this is boring as ****. Monaco really is boring.
All they confirmed was that Its a special circuit. Sure it is, I love it to. But why is it almost always a crap race year upon year? Because it isn't a good circuit for racing F1. If they want more street circuits you can guarantee they won't be modeled on the right Monaco circuit.

I think it's fair to say that the most exciting Monaco races involve non-injurious (but spectacular) crashes, drivers whose teams will let them eat through tyres, rain, strategy-changing safety cars and so on. Yesterday's race was about as exciting as the Rosberg-Rosberg tour lap. Which wasn't at all exciting, in case you're wondering.

 

[Barra333]

Monaco is like the Nordschleife - a fantastic circuit (in very different ways), but terrible for racing.

 

[Liquid]

1996 and 2004 are the last two Monegasque Grands Prix I can actually remember what happened and why; wet race chaos for Panis with only three cars crossing the line and the Trulli train working after Montoya and MSC crashed behind the safety car.

 

[Barra333]

I remember 2006*, because I was there and Mark Webber's car caught fire shortly after he came out of the pits with the lead.

*Thanks mustafur.

 

[mustafur]

I remember 2005, because I was there and Mark Webber's car caught fire shortly after he came out of the pits with the lead.

2006*

 

[TenEightyOne]

I remember 2006*, because I was there and Mark Webber's car caught fire shortly after he came out of the pits with the lead.

*Thanks mustafur.

2005 was Webber's first F1 podium (3rd, Williams). Too much champagne in the Casino!

 

[Barra333]

Oops. It was a long time ago.
Incidentally, that was also the year that Schumacher parked his Ferrari at Rascasse to stop qualifying.

 

[Jimlaad43]

1996 and 2004 are the last two Monegasque Grands Prix I can actually remember what happened and why; wet race chaos for Panis with only three cars crossing the line and the Trulli train working after Montoya and MSC crashed behind the safety car.

2017 - Nothing interesting
2016 - A load of rain causing crashes, Mercedes team orders and Ricciardo's bad pitstop.
2015 - Hamilton's VSC pitstop blunder
2014 - idk, Raikkonen screwing up an overtake on Magnussen at the hairpin
2013 - Maldonado being innocent in an accident with another driver - red flag for barrier repair
2012 - Schumacher "pole", Grosjean start crash and Kobayashi's jump. Webber holding up a queue of 5 cars for the entire race
2011 - Sutil puncture ending up with a Red Flag and Hamilton vs Maldonado part 1
2010 - 4 safety cars due to large crashes, Alonso coming through the field from the back, Schumacher's legal-but-not-legal pass at the end of the race
2009 - Kovalainen crash at Swimming Pool, Button running across the line.
2008 - Wet race, Hamilton victory, Coulthard and Bourdais having the same accident 5 seconds apart, Rosberg bouncing off every wall at the Swimming Pool, Sutil being rear ended by Raikkonen
2007 - Alonso and Hamilton got a bit salty
2006 - Raikkonen walking to the yacht instead of the pits

 

[UnkaD]

I enjoyed the race. I think the intensity of cheering on Ricciardo the whole race as he nursed a potentially dying car was enough to keep interest. So glad he got the win. It was well-deserved.

Watching the Sky pit-walk before the race has me missing Will Buxton. The whole minute or more of Martin Brundle fumbling over himself looking only for Tom Brady like a kid that's lost his mom was just sad. "Tom? Tom?"

 

[Simmpa]

Put Pierre Gasly in Red Bull and demote Verstappen to bumper cars

 

[baldgye]

2017 - Nothing interesting
2016 - A load of rain causing crashes, Mercedes team orders and Ricciardo's bad pitstop.
2015 - Hamilton's VSC pitstop blunder
2014 - idk, Raikkonen screwing up an overtake on Magnussen at the hairpin
2013 - Maldonado being innocent in an accident with another driver - red flag for barrier repair
2012 - Schumacher "pole", Grosjean start crash and Kobayashi's jump. Webber holding up a queue of 5 cars for the entire race
2011 - Sutil puncture ending up with a Red Flag and Hamilton vs Maldonado part 1
2010 - 4 safety cars due to large crashes, Alonso coming through the field from the back, Schumacher's legal-but-not-legal pass at the end of the race
2009 - Kovalainen crash at Swimming Pool, Button running across the line.
2008 - Wet race, Hamilton victory, Coulthard and Bourdais having the same accident 5 seconds apart, Rosberg bouncing off every wall at the Swimming Pool, Sutil being rear ended by Raikkonen
2007 - Alonso and Hamilton got a bit salty
2006 - Raikkonen walking to the yacht instead of the pits

2017 was where Ferrari managed to switch Kimi and Seb around in the stops and Lewis had to do something similar to what Max did this year...

 

[Jezza819]

It seemed like Sky was talking over a lot of team radios.

 

[Pezzarinho17]

Not a bad thing when 90% of them were Hamilton complaining about tyres or Stroll just simply complaining.

 

[Barra333]

It seemed like Sky was talking over a lot of team radios.

The instances of it that I recall were when they were talking to someone in the pits (reporter or team rep). The guys in the box are pretty good at shutting up when the radio graphic comes up.

 

[GroupB]

The NBC booth guys were always on top of the radio messages coming in, but Croft just can’t seem to stop talking sometimes.

 

[chromatic9]

I was pleased for Ricciardo but it wasn't a good race. Monaco at least is a big test lap after lap, I don't expect overtaking.

The drivers were coasting around on old tyres, A one stop would do so that's how it went. It's not even like Vettel was all over the back of Ricciardo for any signicant time, they all dropped off into coasting, not worth pitting and also unable to push.

I wouldn't worry much though. Aside from Melbourne the tyres have helped produce some uncertainty.

 

[Touring Mars]

I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that the softest possible tyre combo (1 set of hypersoft; 1 set of ultrasoft) is enough to get you round 78 laps of a GP circuit - granted, it didn't look like it was going to work for some people and some tyres were pretty shot by the end, but of all the races on the F1 calendar that could use an extra element of strategy it would be Monaco. The only element of uncertainty was whether or not the HS/US combo was going to work and whether those (like Bottas) who were on Ultrasoft/Supersoft might have prevailed (which was a smart move by Mercedes to cover both options), but it turned out to be inconsequential. Also, Pirelli have perhaps got their nomenclature a tad wrong, since now they have two compounds that are even softer than Supersoft, but even they can withstand half a Monaco GP each. Perhaps next year they will go for an even softer compound that might make things a bit more interesting, but where do they go from 'hypersoft' - 'megasoft'.. 'ubersoft'..?

 

[Grayfox]

IMO Pirelli should have no say on which tires are brought to the track.

The teams should just 3 sets for the race weekend with so many sets in total which they decide in(if 12 sets are the limit teams can break it down 5, 4, 3 if they choose) this will add an extra layer of strategy.
If the teams choose wrong, they lose, other wise they could win
More grip but more pit stops,
Less grip but less pit stops.

So if teams want to use Hyper Soft, Super Soft and Soft on a track like spa and they run out, their loss.

 

[baldgye]

IMO Pirelli should have no say on which tires are brought to the track.

It could be quite interesting if we just had, soft, medium and hard tyres available for all Grand Prix and you had to use a minimum of two compounds. Wouldn't make any odds for the likes of Monaco, but for other races could really mix up some results?