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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/136052/vettel-normal-tyres-even-worse-for-ferrari
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The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Odds on Max will stick it in the wall at least once over the course of the weekend.
Hamilton wasn't losing any time in the final sector at Barcelona in race trim, in fact he was 3rd fastest in that sector and 4th in the other two.
Bottas was indeed slower, he went from 3rd to 5th.
Ricciardo was quick in all three sectors, he just couldn't manage to convert it to a decent finish position.
Max clearly loved the final sector, going from 5th to 2nd.
Qualy did show a greater differential for the Mercs in the final sector, but the HAAS has never been faster than a Mercedes, even in the final sector.
My final point - I've never heard of this correlation between the final sector of Barcelona and performance in Monaco before. It's a new one on me. Where has it come from, and is it really true? Having reviewed historical data I can find no correlation at all. Just to pick one example, Vettel was considerably slower in the final sector of Barcelona last year (5th instead of 2nd in the other two sectors) yet qualified second in Monaco and won the race.
Monaco is a crap track. My least favourite race.
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Personally I can see them all being very close and for the race to be decided by who can keep their nose clean. Alonso's racecraft will be more important than his aero package.
Monaco's great thrill is to see the tiny margins that the drivers work within. Lots of people complain about great big run-off areas in the new tracks, so Monaco is an antidote to that. Personally I can't stand the soulless desert races with no atmosphere and no audience. Would you really rather attend Abu Dhabi than Monaco?
I'm not sure Monaco would be any better in person.
I've not seen the Monaco race, but I once drove the track (in a hired Peugeot) with all the stands and boards in place the year the Formula E race was the weekend before F1 and they left the detritus out all week. I have to say it was one of the most memorable moments of my life, having associated Monaco with F1 from a young age. The place just oozes atmosphere, looks stunning, and will forever represent the glamorous side of the sport.
(My lap time was 8 mins 50. Somewhat outside the 107% rule.)
I'll grant you the actual racing isn't a patch on Spa, Silverstone or wherever, but it does place unique demands on the drivers simply to keep it out of the wall. The weekend itself is a great celebration of F1 past and present.
I agree with you on the Monaco atmosphere thing, but having been to my fair share of posh do's in Dubai I wonder if it's mostly vapid, good-looking people with no substance who don't really know or care about F1 beyond being seen to have been there.
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So it's equivalent to taking Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin off of the running track and making them compete on a tightrope instead so we can admire the unique demands of trying to run fast whilst trying not to fall off.
Monaco is a backslapping self-congratulatory event which demonstrates all the shittest bits of modern F1. It beggars belief that Silverstone had to be carved up into its current pisspoor state trackwise in the name of progress yet we keep on going back to this archaic tax haven shitefest.
The best bit about Monaco? When it's over and I can return to watching 'cos Canada is round the corner.
This year’s performances don’t suggest otherwise; the strengths of Mercedes lie in high speed corners and straight line grunt rather than nimble agility in low speed complexes. The tyre constructions at Monaco are back to those seen before Spain (those at Spain, which both Ferrari and Red Bull also lobbied for, were specifically for high speed/medium downforce tracks such as Barcelona, Silverstone, Spa and Suzuka).
Basically the Mercedes does not suit Monaco, in terms of how it performs in low speed corners or how it treats the tyres specified for the race. The characteristics of Monaco play into the hands of Ferrari, Red Bull and Haas.
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This is going to be a modern classic.