Formula One 2016

[Lineker]

Yeah shame for him that. But, a wet Monaco is often the best thing. 

[Gazz]

Red Bull have shat it.

[JasonM]

4 minutes ago, Gazz said:

Red Bull have shat it.

That pit-stop was ridiculous, but Ricc is still battling with Hamilton.

And Max binned it two sessions in a row, two years in a row... What a dipshit!

Edited May 29, 2016 by Jasonmufc

[Chris2K]

I have a feeling Sergio Perez can win this race, it's hard not to think there's going to be some contact between Lewis and Danny Ric very soon.

[Chris2K]

Or not. Lewis wins, and it's starting to absolutely chuck it down about fifteen minutes too late.

 

And Hulkenberg passes Rosberg on the final straight 

[JasonM]

Ricciardo is absolutely gutted. Red Bull fucked up in the worst way and basically cost Ricciardo the race.

Two years in a row where pit-drama cocks up the race for the leader at Monaco.

[Katsuya]

Ricciardo isn't smiling. Sign of the apocalypse!?

Lewis got lucky twice to win that - Ricciardo was stuck for a good 5-6 seconds in the pits and came out only just behind Lewis, and you'd have to think he'd have just waltzed away at the front for the rest of the race. That and Lewis was very, very lucky not to get a penalty for cutting in front of him off the chicance. That being said, you can't deny Hamilton had a good race today.

Good for Checo and Fernando, too. I kinda feel sorry for Perez in that he's unlikely to ever move forward again after the McLaren fiasco, he could probably do very well in the Ferrari #2 role.

EDIT: Also, "it's my third podium"? Did he mean with FI, because he definitely had 2/3 at Sauber.

[Chris2K]

And Justin Bieber is just hanging around by the podium, because Monaco.

[Lineker]

Amazing Monaco race. Danny Ricciardo rightly gutted. Hope he can bounce back at the next track which suits the Red Bull car, maybe Hungary. 

[MJB]

Great race, so happy for Lewis and I honestly believe that the championship needed this result. Hamilton will probably take engine penalties later in the season and so he needs to close the gap now.

Nico had no pace today and I was amazed he let Lewis through. That could cost him, as could being passed by Hulk on the way to the line.

Very bad luck for RIcciardo and Hamilton knows exactly how he feels after last season. Did Lewis leave enough room coming out of the chicane? At first I said slam dunk penalty but having seen a front on replay, I think there was JUST about a car's width. Just.

[JasonM]

Not F1, but just as amazing. F1-Reject Alexander Rossi has just won the 100th Indy 500 as a rookie, whilst being an extremely dark horse candidate. His fuel saving at the end was so extreme he was driving 50mph less than the guy catching up to him, and on the victory-lap his car ran out of gas.

Needless to say, extremely happy for Alex Rossi to get this huge accomplishment in his very first Indycar season.

[Lineker]

Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner says the pitstop delay that cost Daniel Ricciardo Monaco Grand Prix victory was a misunderstanding rooted in the track's unusual garage arrangements.

The Monaco pitlane is more cramped than other circuits', and the teams' usual pitwall set-up is located above the garages.

Red Bull was not ready with the tyres when Ricciardo came in from the race lead for slicks, and the resultant delay as a set of super-softs was brought out meant he emerged just behind eventual winner Lewis Hamilton.

Horner said a set of super-softs had been requested without the management knowing that the crew had softs ready and would not have time to get the super-softs before Ricciardo arrived.

"We saw Hamilton the lap earlier go onto the ultra-soft tyre, which we felt was quite marginal to go to the end of the race," Horner explained.

"So we elected to put Daniel onto one step harder tyre.

"Basically there was a miscommunication as to what tyres were in the garage at what time.

"The pitwall is upstairs, obviously the garage is downstairs, tyres are on heat both in the garage and behind the garage. Unfortunately the set of tyres that were called for weren't readily to hand and were at the back of the garage.

"There was a scramble, with the mechanics originally having the soft tyre ready."

While stressing the misunderstanding would probably not have happened with a standard garage layout, Horner said Red Bull could not blame the Monaco pits for its mistake.

"Not making excuses because there are none, but obviously with the tightness of the garages here, it's very tight to have extreme wets, intermediates and three different types of slicks for both cars in the garage at the same time," he said.

"It's a communication error that has happened with 30 seconds' notice that on a normal working day would have been no issue at all.

"It's a challenge in Monaco for all the teams when you're sitting upstairs.

"The race engineers don't have sight of what tyres are in the garage.

"But we need to understand and do a full analysis of how this happened and ensure it doesn't happen again."

Ricciardo dominated the early stages from pole but initially fell behind Hamilton when he stopped to change from wets to intermediates while the champion chose to stay out and wait for the track to dry fully so he could go straight to slicks.

Though Ricciardo then ran one lap longer than Hamilton before changing to slicks, he was on course to reclaim the lead and came out only marginally behind the Mercedes even with his pitstop having taken nine seconds longer.

"Even despite that delay, they came out alongside each other, showing how quick Daniel's in-lap had been and how slow Lewis's out-lap had been," Horner said.

"All we can do is apologise to Daniel that we haven't given him good enough service today."

Meanwhile, Red Bull and Toro Rosso have signed deals to run Renault Formula 1 engines for 2017 and 2018.

[Katsuya]

Bizarrely, McLaren seem to be in the top four teams this weekend in Baku. 

[JasonM]

Watching FP2 and it's both the most boring and arguably unnecessary dangerous tracks I've seen. The two main straights are insanely boring and ridicuously long, there are way too many 90°, and that turn next to the castle is so tight it's going to murder many many cars before this weekend is done.

With the Post-Bianchi safety-boom this track is the prime example of 'lol, money' because there is no way this track should be a thing in 2016

[Lineker]

Not had a chance to watch. Is it like a Macau-Singapore hybrid?

[JasonM]

10 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Not had a chance to watch. Is it like a Macau-Singapore hybrid?

It is very much like Macau in a way. There's two corners that's going to bin a lot of cars in the race, especially on the first lap.

[Adam]

On 17/06/2016 at 14:48, Jasonmufc said:

With the Post-Bianchi safety-boom this track is the prime example of 'lol, money' because there is no way this track should be a thing in 2016

This is the philosophy of the entire sport these days to be fair. At the expense of good racing, entertainment, safety, logic and sense among other things.

[Lineker]

I actually enjoyed quali  but the race is going to be ridiculous, safety cars galore!

[Chris2K]

And not a single safety car at all. Probably the most boring race of the season (all overtakes done by DRS down big straights, Rosberg leading every lap) with only the Perez charge bringing any interest.

 

[Lineker]

Yeah I was bored after maybe 12 laps