Monaco Grand Prix practice in pictures

Posted on

| Written by

Kovalainen rounds the hairpin at the track where Lotus made their debut in 1958
Kovalainen rounds the hairpin at the track where Lotus made their debut in 1958

The Monte-Carlo circuit is the most instantly recognisable setting for a Grand Prix.

Today’s practice sessions gave us a chance to see the cars in their high-downforce configurations, with several of them running new parts and displaying new logos.

Among the new graphics on the cars are Deustche Post logos on the Mercedes, Trina Solar on the Renaults, Telecoms Sans Frontiers on the Williamses and Swiss automotive group Emil Frey on the Saubers.

On the technical side, Ferrari and Sauber aren’t running their F-ducts this weekend – you can see Ferrari are running their flat-sided shark fin wing.

Williams also tested some new front and rear wings. If you spot any other changes to the cars in the pictures below please describe them in the comments.

More pictures of these cars and others will be added to the selection below later – check back soon.

More F1 pictures

2010 Monaco Grand Prix

    Browse all 2010 Monaco Grand Prix articles

    Images (C) Ferrari spa, www.mclaren.com, Bridgestone/Ercole Colombo, Getty Images/Red Bull, Force India F1 Team, Lotus F1, Daimler, Motioncompany, BMW Sauber F1 Team

    Author information

    Keith Collantine
    Lifelong motor sport fan Keith set up RaceFans in 2005 - when it was originally called F1 Fanatic. Having previously worked as a motoring...

    Got a potential story, tip or enquiry? Find out more about RaceFans and contact us here.

    20 comments on “Monaco Grand Prix practice in pictures”

    1. Ned Flanders
      13th May 2010, 16:46

      Those are some lovely pictures. I bet F1 photographers wish every race was held in Monaco. I especially love the pictures taken from low down at the Nouvelle chicane looking up with the mountain in the distance.

      In fact, I think being an F1 photographer would be my ideal job. I can always dream…

    2. Younger Hamilton
      13th May 2010, 17:03

      love Lewis’s Monaco special helmet

    3. Mike
      13th May 2010, 17:12

      Wow…..

      These are amazing

    4. dj
      13th May 2010, 17:55

      I like the little road map inside Trulli’s Lotus…for that walk back to the pits or his hotel room.

      1. Xamanara
        13th May 2010, 20:24

        Doesn’t Trulli live in Monaco?

      2. Cube
        13th May 2010, 20:52

        Nah, they all have that in their car. So they can talk their engineers around the track.

        1. dj
          14th May 2010, 1:06

          I was just kidding ,but Trulli is still the best blocker in F1

    5. Ned Flanders
      13th May 2010, 18:07

      Does anyone else like the revised Hispania livery? I love it now, it’s one of my favourite liveries on the grid at the moment. Shame it’s grey still, if it was black with red trim it could be a classic

      1. Maciek
        13th May 2010, 22:26

        Yeah, it’s not bad at all – especially compared to the ‘blank-box’ Ferrari – that has to be one of the worst Ferrari liveries ever.

      2. GeeMac
        14th May 2010, 7:48

        I think its awesome. Love that gunmetal silverey colour, and I love the red/orange stripes.

    6. Morteza
      13th May 2010, 19:14

      Yeah! Hispania has done well with the new livery, it’s color is much more better and eye catcher now.

      1. Brad P
        13th May 2010, 19:49

        the more McLaren look? great! or did they borrow the livery from Midland F1? hey I’m not knocking them..

    7. Daniel K.
      13th May 2010, 19:40

      Hi Keith,

      Again, no pics of Barrichello? He’s tested, hasn’t he?

      Nice work and wonderful pics, man.. congratulations.

      1. Profile Photo

        Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
        13th May 2010, 20:24

        Williams’ server is down at the moment so I’m not able to get pictures from them. No vendetta against Barrichello, I promise!

    8. Mateus01
      13th May 2010, 20:31

      Thanks for the pictures!! Are you going to post some Sauber pictures too?

    9. Harv's
      13th May 2010, 22:37

      did anyone notice that jenson and lewis are not using the same wing?

      1. Enigma
        13th May 2010, 23:31

        Looks completely the same to me (if you mean the front wing).

    10. m0tion
      14th May 2010, 1:20

      Great shots, loved the Kubica shot of him hard over

    11. George
      14th May 2010, 17:20

      The cars look even better than usual this weekend for some reason

    12. SeattleChris
      15th May 2010, 11:15

      Dude, weak. Damn machine was busted. Alonso on pole and win, then Hamilton, Webber, Kubica then Schumacher. Pole time will be 1.15.986

    Comments are closed.