After a wet and eventful Monaco GP. We collect the information from each team to give you a full run through of the Monaco GP.
Ricciardo rues Red Bull woes.
Murray Walker is often quoted as saying “if is F1 backwards”. However if Daniel Ricciardo’s race in Sochi had not been compromised and if he had won the last two Grand Prix, results that he feels he deserved, the Australien would be within striking distance of Championship leader Nico Rosberg.
Instead he finds himself 40 points adrift of Rosberg in the standings after Red Bull’s pit lane blunder lost Ricciardo the lead, and ultimately the race, to a resurgent Lewis Hamilton.
If 2014 was the year of grabbing opportunities to win races, 2016 is the year of squandered chances for Ricciardo.
The Australian claimed three race victories two seasons ago to underscore his credentials as a potential future champion.
His qualifying lap in Monte Carlo this weekend was a reminder of his talent while Red Bull seemed to have pulled off a masterstroke by sending Ricciardo out on harder tires in Q2, which in a dry race would have given him a distinct advantage over Mercedes and Ferrari.
The race, though, was a wet one – and not only because of Max Verstappen’s tears for dropping his Red Bull into the barrier.
Come the run-into the Championship, Red Bull and Ricciardo may well rue the strategy gaffe in Spain and pit calamity in Monaco. Mercedes still have the best package, but the Red Bull RB12 is now without doubt the best chassis.
Although the power deficit between the Renault and Mercedes power unit’s has narrowed, Ricciardo and Red Bull still need to convert opportunities in to race wins.
With Ricciardo emerging as a genuine threat to Mercedes, how valuable might those missed chances and dropped points prove?
Disappointed Max Verstappen after lock-up crash to the barriers.
Verstappen had impressive pace starting from the pit lane, and before his crash, actually driving for points.
“Disappointed in myself and disappointed for the team because they worked very hard to get the car ready, and I didn’t give them the result they deserved today. We were in a good way, we were in the points and to start from the pit lane and end in the points would have been very good, but I learned from this and hopefully we can come back stronger in Canada.” He said after the race.
Mercedes infallible no more.
It took seven months but, Lewis Hamilton finally made his way back to the top of the podium in the Principality on Sunday.
Technical issues hampered the defending champion in qualifying while Rosberg suffered brake issues in the race.
But for Red Bull’s abysmal pit stop, the Silver Arrows have been beaten for a second successive race.
Overlaid upon this, and despite patchy recent form, Ferrari will also pose a threat through the course of the season.
Even if Mercedes fancy their chances at the next race in Canada, the Brackly team will be concerned about F1’s first trip to Baku in three weeks, as the tight layout of the street circuit will, like Monaco, suit the Red Bulls.
Nico Rosberg didn’t do as well as his team mate. He did clearly not have the pace that Hamilton had.
After team orders to let Hamilton pass, Rosberg dropped after a pit-hold-up, and came out in sixth place and ended the race in seventh place after a mistake on the last lap.
“I’m massively disappointed with today – I really wanted to win my home race again but, it didn’t work out. It’s been tough and I’ll probably need a day to take it all in – but then I’ll shift my focus to Canada and a chance to come back stronger.” Rosberg said.
Perez the podium poacher.
Three podiums in three season is a fine return for Force India and Sergio Perez, who now has six career podiums in total.
Impeccable driving coupled with a great strategy helped the Mexican claim the last step on the podium ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
His assured drive to third in Monaco ranks among his finest for Force India, according to the man himself.
Perez’s description of the result as “my favourite podium with the team” won’t be lost on team-mate Nico Hulkenberg,who has yet to finish on the top three despite, notching up his 100th F1 start.
Disappointing race for Ferrari.
With Sebastian Vettel finishing fourth, just after Perez. Vettel was not happy about his performance, apologizing to the team for not making it to the top three.
“I tried everything to close the gap to Perez, and I did come very close a couple of times, I was also lucky not to ‘kiss’ the wall at the end.” Vettel said after the race.
Ferrari looked very fast all weekend, and was potential podium runners, but with a grid penalty to Raikkonen, and an early retirement of the car, Ferrari did not deliver as hoped this weekend.
Williams not performing as hoped.
With Felipe Massa in 10th and Valtteri Bottas in 11th, it was a disappointing race for the Williams outfit.
“One point is better than zero.” Massa stated after the race. But they surely hoped for more this weekend.
A very bad day for Renault.
With the updated power unit in Magnussen’s car, Renault had high hopes for the Monaco race.
With Palmer out of the race very early in the race, and Kvyat crashing into Magnussen causing him to retire later in the race, Renault didn’t find any luck in Monaco.
The engine update looked promising in testing, and Red Bull showed that there was some new found speed in the unit. Which caused Renault to introduce the engine earlier than first planned.
Magnussen had a possibility to make some good results because of strategy, but was unfortunately hindered by Kvyat.
“Unfortunately, Kvyat just lost his mind and crashed into me and that was effectively the end of my race.” Magnussen’s words on the incident with Kvyat.
Toro Rosso – frustrating day.
Daniil Kvyat had a troublesome start with the pit limiter stuck at 60kph the whole safety car period. After the problem sorted it self, he was keen to un-lap himself. He made a risky move on Magnussen, resulting in retiring them both,
Carlos Sainz was disappointed about his 8th place finish. Starting 6th in the race, he should have finished higher. But after some slow pit-stops he lost some positions.
“I’m not that happy finishing in P8 if I say the truth, because I felt that today there were some big points on the table for us and we lost the opportunity of making them ours.” Sainz said.
Another team crash from Sauber.
Sauber driver Marcus Ericsson caused the second team crash of the year. Ending in both Sauber drivers retiring from the Monaco race.
After several radio calls to Felipe Nasr, requesting to let Ericsson pass, as he was clearly the faster driver. Nasr didn’t respond to the orders. Ericsson took the matter in to own hands, resulting in both drivers crashing, the same place Kvyat and Magnussen clashed together.
“It was unacceptable behaviour by both drivers. Today the work of the whole team ended in a collusion. Marcus and Felipe both know how much work is put into every race weekend. “ Sauber team principal, Monica Kaltenborn said after the race.
McLaren showing more pace.
Both drivers in the points, are rare for the current McLaren team, which made the Monaco GP much more special for McLaren.
With Fernando Alonso finishing 5th in front of Mercedes Nico Rosberg, and Jenson Button finishing 9th, are showing good progress in the 2016 McLaren-Honda, that have had a quite troublesome season thus far.
McLaren are expecting much more to come in future races.
“We’re still not where we want to be – right at the front, fighting for wins and podiums – but I’m happy about how things are going.” Alonso said after the race.
Haas challenged.
Haas are having difficulties with their dry/wet setup. Wet performance was looking very strong in the start of the race, but as the track dried, and they changed to slicks, the car showed problems, Gutierrez (12th) was not confident in the car.
Romain Grosjean (13th) was the car suffering from Raikkonen’s fault in the wet. After the incident, Grosjean had trouble overtaking the Manor which resulted in a less than satisfying race result.
“I was in front of Massa before the incident, so I think we could’ve scored points, which would’ve been amazing starting where we did.” Grosjean said after the race.
Manor still struggling.
Trying to make the same strategy as Lewis Hamilton, with running longer on the wet tyre, in order to switch directly to slicks, to keep track position. This did unfortunately not work out a planned.
Both drivers, Wehrlein (14th) and Haryanto (15th) had a tough debut race at the Principality. With actually finishing ahead of both Haas cars, they were facing penalties which forced them to drop behind the Haas cars, finishing last of the drivers that made it through the race.
Qualifying results:
Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | 1:14.912 | 1:14.357 | 1:13.622 | 21 |
2 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:14.873 | 1:14.043 | 1:13.791 | 24 |
3 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:14.826 | 1:14.056 | 1:13.942 | 21 |
4 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:14.610 | 1:14.318 | 1:14.552 | 23 |
5 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India | 1:15.333 | 1:14.989 | 1:14.726 | 25 |
6 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1:15.499 | 1:14.789 | 1:14.732 | 25 |
7 | Carlos Sainz | Toro Rosso | 1:15.467 | 1:14.805 | 1:14.749 | 23 |
8 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 1:15.328 | 1:14.937 | 1:14.902 | 28 |
9 | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | 1:15.384 | 1:14.794 | 1:15.273 | 23 |
10 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 1:15.504 | 1:15.107 | 1:15.363 | 26 |
11 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 1:15.521 | 1:15.273 | 15 | |
12 | Esteban Gutierrez | Haas | 1:15.592 | 1:15.293 | 22 | |
13 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:15.554 | 1:15.352 | 15 | |
14 | Felipe Massa | Williams | 1:15.710 | 1:15.385 | 22 | |
15 | Romain Grosjean | Haas | 1:15.810 | 1:15.571 | 22 | |
16 | Kevin Magnussen | Renault | 1:16.253 | 1:16.058 | 22 | |
17 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 1:16.299 | 12 | ||
18 | Jolyon Palmer | Renault | 1:16.586 | 12 | ||
19 | Rio Haryanto | Manor | 1:17.295 | 12 | ||
20 | Pascal Wehrlein | Manor | 1:17.452 | 12 | ||
21 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:17.467 | 3 | ||
22 | Felipe Nasr | Sauber | 1 |
Race Results:
Pos | Driver | Team | Time | Stops |
---|---|---|---|---|
01 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:59:29.133 | 1 |
02 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | +7.252 | 2 |
03 | Sergio Perez | Force India | +13.825 | 2 |
04 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | +15.846 | 2 |
05 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | +1:25.076 | 2 |
06 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India | +1:32.999 | 2 |
07 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | +1:33.290 | 2 |
08 | Carlos Sainz | Toro Rosso | +1 Lap | 2 |
09 | Jenson Button | McLaren | +1 Lap | 2 |
10 | Felipe Massa | Williams | +1 Lap | 2 |
11 | Esteban Gutierrez | Haas | +1 Lap | 2 |
12 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | +1 Lap | 3 |
13 | Pascal Wehrlein | Manor | +2 Laps | 2 |
14 | Romain Grosjean | Haas | +2 Laps | 1 |
15 | Rio Haryanto | Manor | +2 Laps | 3 |
Ret | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | +27 Laps | 4 |
Ret | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | +30 Laps | 4 |
Ret | Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | +44 Laps | 2 |
Ret | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | +46 Laps | 5 |
Ret | Jolyon Palmer | Renault | +60 Laps | 4 |
Ret | Kevin Magnussen | Renault | +68 Laps | 0 |
Ret | Felipe Nasr | Sauber | +71Laps | 0 |
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