Monday, May 30, 2011

F1 Monaco: without that last safety car ...

Not always the Monaco Grand Prix, very long, over seventy laps, unable to keep your attention until the end of the race. This year we have to admit, we were glued to the TV for an hour and a half to find plenty to see who among the three heroes would have checked. Eight laps from the end, these were the positions.

Vettel to command, only one tire change, with tires that were more than fifty laps on the back and were allegedly failing. Alonso behind him, two tire changes, certainly cooler than Vettel having made half revolutions. Behind him Button, three tire changes, with the last train that had just ten laps.

Then: Vettel going to make it hopeless to resist the attacks of Alonso, with fresher tires ... Button could insert them or even both? This was the gist of the GP and could really happen all ... Except that the "Piscine" Sutil cut the chicane, slow, Hamilton brakes, Alguersuari not do it and dab, Petrov has no way out and crashed into the barriers.

Safety car, and even then the red flag. So Vettel pulled a sigh of relief, they all have changed tires before leaving, and the last six rounds have not changed the situation, if not for the poor that Kobayashi was fourth (had to run as a lion, with only one tire change ) and was placed in force by Webber.

However, at the end of games, luck or not, is always Vettel to win and with five wins from six races has become elusive in the World 2011. Ferrari has threatened to win. Indeed, rather, Alonso threatened to win. A limit declared he had fresh tires and kept going to attack Vettel safe to overtake.

We want to believe? At this point, the second in the Ferrari does not fit well. And sure, there is a new Ferrari. It 's the same as Aldo Costache in the previous race had been dubbed. Only the Monaco track is very special. It does not require a special aerodynamics (of course, the maximum load), but perhaps an important mechanical traction.

But especially here wins the pilot cooler, the one that makes fewer mistakes driving, and the team that is not wrong tactics. So Alonso, creator once again to a great start, managed to stay on the heels of Vettel, who proved once again, if proof were needed, the ability to put the first laps at a furious pace and at least have a Red Bull, which respects the tires.

In all of this interesting race of Button who chose the super soft for two stints, and with these tires flew one of the first time after losing in the first half of the race. But then the blame for all this is it? Of course, the Monaco track, with all the bumps of the case, it remains extremely dangerous, and it is likely that in the event of an accident, very likely, the intervention of the safety car.

The fact is that Monaco is untouchable and we are fortunate that at least the marshals very good, half Italian. Accidents. We say that this time Hamilton has put his hand a few times. Before putting on the strength of the poor within Loiws Massa, rammed and damaged the wing of Ferrari. That after a few tens of meters inside the tunnel, without the front downforce is not able to stay on course, ended up in the dirt, and then crawl up the rock at the chicane ..

Then the final carom where this time Hamilton was hit and Petrov came out in the ambulance with leg pains. And yet the final icing Hamilton forced the poor to St. Devote Maldonado putting it out of the race ... Well, the show is not missed, and turned the wheel so this time. And now you go to Canada, to the track for Ferrari.

But as a Ferrari? If there are not even there the super soft Pirelli will return to the usual problems of lack of load ... Or not?

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