Despite having issues with his Red Bull a long way ahead of the halfway mark of the race, Daniel Ricciardo mastered the conditions and controlled from the front, winning his first Monaco Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel finished second with Lewis Hamilton completing the podium in third place.
So did Fangio, Clarke, Hamilton, Alonso, Schumacher and Senna to name a few. Monaco is one of those circuits where you only learn the limits the hard way.
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Dan nailed his strategy with brilliant driving and was the faster of the two during the race when it counted.
you have to remember that there will probably be a few safety car periods for him to crash during.Sieper wrote: ↑23 May 2018, 13:22The Grosjean bashing is getting old. Yes he made a big mess of the Spain start (also helped by Kmag's move) but indeed badly handled (pulling a smoke curtain whilst keeping his foot down and spinning all over the track) but he was actually having a very decent start up to the moment Kmag's side step surprised him. I think he will be the most careful starter of all in Monaco.
And that the 0.1 sec is gained back (and then some) because of the downforce you gain with a longer car and the additional underfloor surface area you have to work with.
The slow stop was largely Max's fault for missing the box position - Dan got an aggressive overcut strategy once Max pitted and he drove qually laps, every lap to leap frog both Max and Valteri onto the podium. Iirc he'd looked after his tires which was one reason he could make the overcut work.
Did he have a little more pace just like last race?djos wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 04:33The slow stop was largely Max's fault for missing the box position - Dan got an aggressive overcut strategy once Max pitted and he drove qually laps, every lap to leap frog both Max and Valteri onto the podium. Iirc he'd looked after his tires which was one reason he could make the overcut work.
sorry mate I know you like RIC but that one was mega-obvious (and a good move by the team)TwanV wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 09:44Did he have a little more pace just like last race?djos wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 04:33The slow stop was largely Max's fault for missing the box position - Dan got an aggressive overcut strategy once Max pitted and he drove qually laps, every lap to leap frog both Max and Valteri onto the podium. Iirc he'd looked after his tires which was one reason he could make the overcut work.
This discussion is one of the most stupid I ever saw on this forums. It was not expected, that the overcut is faster before the first stops. This is clearly proven by Merc pitting Bottas. So this whole discussion on teamorder or fairness is pure nonsense.drunkf1fan wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 09:58TwanV wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 09:44Did he have a little more pace just like last race?djos wrote: ↑24 May 2018, 04:33
The slow stop was largely Max's fault for missing the box position - Dan got an aggressive overcut strategy once Max pitted and he drove qually laps, every lap to leap frog both Max and Valteri onto the podium. Iirc he'd looked after his tires which was one reason he could make the overcut work.
Good move but inherently unfair. In that if you're going to sacrifice a driver to try to goad someone else into a mistake you should use the guy running behind not the one ahead on merit.
Ricciardo was faster because with two guys pitted he wasn't being held up, nothing more or less. Verstappen was being held up by Bottas.
I mean Ferrari would always use Kimi in that situation over Vettel but pretty much every other team should be using whoever was behind in that race.
Woah indeed. Guess there was some fire to the smoke that was that ERS deployment rumor . . .
