The 2007 Monaco Grand Prix

[Snowy]

Now there's a red flag! What's happened now?!!

I'm not quick enough!

[Ed]

Session restarts. 15 minutes remaining

[Julian Mayo]

OMG!! Something has happened to Lewis

[Julian Mayo]

Now there's a red flag! What's happened now?!!

I'm not quick enough!

nor is Ralf

[Julian Mayo]

The Webster is going hard early.....very unusual

[Snowy]

He had to overreach himself sooner or later. I'm actually glad it was sooner rather than later because one can become quite deluded quite quickly in motorsport!

[Ed]

Ralf Schumacher stacks it!

Seconds remaining in the session

[Ed]

Session over and the top 8 are: Alonso, Raikkonen, Hamilton, Trulli, Fisichella, Massa, Kubica and Rosberg.

Hamilton, Sutil and Ralf all had on track incidents.


Full results

[Julian Mayo]

[quote="Ed"]Ralf Schumacher stacks it!








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[Ed]

I believe Ralf Schumacher had a similar incident in 2005 during qualifying. Just a few turns earlier!

[GhoGho]

I believe Ralf Schumacher had a similar incident in 2005 during qualifying. Just a few turns earlier!

He must be improving then..................

[Julian Mayo]

I believe Ralf Schumacher had a similar incident in 2005 during qualifying. Just a few turns earlier!

He must be improving then..................

Or it takes him longer to go fast enough to have an off

[Julian Mayo]

As I understand it, the supersofts will be The tyre for the race, as long as the Drivers have a sensitive right foot

Welll, that was the hope, but apparantly they are only good for one or two laps......real "qualifyers"........ ........It will be interesting to see how the teams fit that into their strategies

[Snowy]

Wouldn't it have been cheaper and more interesting even if Bridgestone just supplied one tyre for the entire season? Can anyone tell me what the idea behind the tyre regs is? It seems bloody stupid to lock the teams into two stop races, which is obviously what these regs have done. I think there have been a grand total of seven cars that have pitted three times in a race and six that have pitted once this season. Of the cars that pitted three times only four started the race with that intention, and of the cars that pitted once five DNF'ed and only Felipe Massa has managed to finish a race on a one stop stategy. I don't want to knock F1 at the moment as it seems to be quite interesting and fun for a change. But the tyre regs are a pile of horse manure and nobody seems particularly bothered.

[Jim Watt]

Snowy:
You wrote: " I think there have been a grand total of seven cars that have pitted three times in a race and six that have pitted once this season. Of the cars that pitted three times only four started the race with that intention, and of the cars that pitted once five DNF'ed and only Felipe Massa has managed to finish a race on a one stop stategy. I don't want to knock F1 at the moment as it seems to be quite interesting and fun for a change. But the tyre regs are a pile of horse manure and nobody seems particularly bothered. "

thank you for the data. It is certainly true that the tyre regs are ridiculous. the problem is that there ARE no tyre regs. There is, instead, a single tyre supplier. If there were tyre regs, then teams would be able to use any tyre that fit the regs. And, voila, there would be more competition.

But manufacturers don't like competition (in case you haven't noticed). They like predictability.

On the other hand, they also don't want to be SEEN to be against competition. So you get this funny little charade.

Even Ron Dennis has a sort of smirk on his face whenever tyres come up. Not to worry, though. So far no one has bagged a race because the tyres failed. Or, er, no one has done it since Mushlins failed in Indy. On to Monaco in the Rain. What fun. Maybe Davy will win again!?

Jim Watt