2018 Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, May 24-27

[JonoNic]

The drivers seem to chris cross the grid at various points on that straight.

[Fulcrum]

Ricciardo for pole and the win? He's been threatening it a few times already.

Hartley to crash.
Grosjean to crash.
Magnussen to crash someone.
Leclerc to outperform on Saturday and provide an epic road block on Sunday.

Got pole, will surely win from here if the race is a 'boring' one.

[Bill_Kar]

Ham and Ric on the better line into turn 1.

Assuming a bad start for P2 and P4... Not really sure what you mean with this post.

Hope the race is a good one!

But P2 & P4 need a really bad start, you can always cut across right away and cover the inside.

[Vasconia]

Top job by Daniel, incredible performance with a great car.

I was expecting more from Kimi. He should have been at least third.

[Phil]

Bottas just said that they are afraid the hyper wont last much beyond 7 laps, which means they wont even survive a 1 stop.

My hunch is they wont be driving full out, trying to push the tires as far as possible. If they have to stop early and drop into traffic, that wont be nice to watch...

[Fulcrum]

Top job by Daniel, incredible performance with a great car.

I was expecting more from Kimi. He should have been at least third.

3 hundredths behind Hamilton, and Hamilton probably did a great lap to be there. Kimi has been a couple of 10ths down on Vettel most of the time this weekend, so I'm not surprised he is 4th. He's probably going to fade badly as well (age, tyre deg), so the winner will be in front of Kimi after turn 1 (imo).

[Bill_Kar]

Hamilton had massive understeer through the last corner. Pity!

[Vettel165]

Do you think is possible for Vettel to pass Ricciardo at the start? I thing its gonna be nearly impossible.
In 2014 though Seb managed to pass Ricciardo on the start from the dirty side of the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9c2oSlwwQo

Will see.

About today I can say, fantastic performance by Daniel, he deserved that one. Crazy pole lap.

[Bill_Kar]

Top job by Daniel, incredible performance with a great car.

I was expecting more from Kimi. He should have been at least third.

3 hundredths behind Hamilton, and Hamilton probably did a great lap to be there. Kimi has been a couple of 10ths down on Vettel most of the time this weekend, so I'm not surprised he is 4th. He's probably going to fade badly as well (age, tyre deg), so the winner will be in front of Kimi after turn 1 (imo).

Kimi was lucky to be only 3 hundredths behind TBH. He didn't deserve more based on sector times.

[LionKing]

I think Ham was just 0.006s slower in S2 alone, overall ahead 0.08s because of purple S1.
Even if he had matched his first run S3, he'd be ahead.

He wouldn't. He lost about 0.13 sec in the last sector while he ended up 2 tenths behind. A tenth improvement in S3 compared to his initial run would have done it though.

[Bill_Kar]

I think Ham was just 0.006s slower in S2 alone, overall ahead 0.08s because of purple S1.
Even if he had matched his first run S3, he'd be ahead.

He wouldn't. He lost about 0.13 sec in the last sector while he ended up 2 tenths behind. A tenth improvement in S3 compared to his initial run would have done it though.

Oh, I thought he'd done 19 all flat in S3. Thank you!

[LionKing]

I think Ham was just 0.006s slower in S2 alone, overall ahead 0.08s because of purple S1.
Even if he had matched his first run S3, he'd be ahead.

He wouldn't. He lost about 0.13 sec in the last sector while he ended up 2 tenths behind. A tenth improvement in S3 compared to his initial run would have done it though.

Oh, I thought he'd done 19 all flat in S3. Thank you!

I think his best S3 is 19.061

[Bill_Kar]

Does anybody have a clue on what happened with Haas? I remember people saying they are clearly 4th fastest team here, because of track & hypersofts. I understand losing some pace, but starting dead last it's a whole different thing.

LionKing, you're correct, it was above 19.050.

[Sevach]

Do you think is possible for Vettel to pass Ricciardo at the start? I thing its gonna be nearly impossible.
In 2014 though Seb managed to pass Ricciardo on the start from the dirty side of the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9c2oSlwwQo

Will see.

About today I can say, fantastic performance by Daniel, he deserved that one. Crazy pole lap.

Unless someone massively fluffs the start i think they get to T1 in order, it's just too tight to try anything, the leader moves slightly into your line and that's it.

[godlameroso]

Anyone who reads this, watch the race carefully tomorrow. Every 12 or so laps the tone of the race changes, just notice carefully how there's always developments every 12 laps.

The hypersofts don't go the distance, and neither of the other 2 compounds can go the full race, so a one stop will be tough but it will be the same for everyone. The only thing that could shift it to a 2 stop is the type of incident the race will inevitably have, and the timing. Unless you're going to come out with a 2+ second per lap advantage from new tires then pitting may not be a good strategy, as track position is so critical around here. What makes it tough is that you'll inevitably have to pit on the hypers, so maybe stretching that stint out until an incident occurs is an option, depending on how bad the degradation is.