2014 Monaco Grand Prix lap times and fastest laps

12 comments on “2014 Monaco Grand Prix lap times and fastest laps”

1. 

   Tasimana
   26th May 2014, 14:40

   Great drive by Ric after a poor start. He seems to look after the tyres and speeds up later in the race. A good trend.
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   Sujeeth (@sjct83)
   26th May 2014, 14:41

   That is really impressive by riccardo and redbull. fastest lap on softs which has done more than 35 laps.
3. 

   Cranio
   26th May 2014, 15:27

   What about Chilton with 7th fastest lap? Great drive
   1. 

      Kimi4WDC
      27th May 2014, 2:00

      Can’t even keep it off other cars under safety car, what a waste of F1 seat.
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   erix
   26th May 2014, 16:55

   It is now meaningless to mention fastest laps because anybody can do that. Bring back refuel and no lapped car overtakes under SC (also meaningless) please..
   1. 

      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      26th May 2014, 18:31

      Fastest laps are no less relevant to overall performance now than they were in the refuelling era. In fact they’re likely to be more significant without refuelling, as drivers are more likely to be on a similar fuel load at all points during the race.
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         MattDS (@mattds)
         27th May 2014, 6:28

         I think fastest laps are indeed less relevant now.

         These days, the only representative fastest lap can be one that has been set in the final laps of a race, when a car is light on fuel. Fastest laps set way before the end of the race are inherently irrelevant because they carry too much fuel.
         Now, I would say the end of races typically have less action. Positions tend to be relatively secure, or more secure than mid-race, drivers are starting to count points and be careful not to throw too much away. Not always ofcourse, but this is more true for the end of a race than it is mid-race.

         Now compare with the refueling era. First of all, all drivers (unless zero-stopping) were light on fuel multiple times per race. Which means fastest laps could be set throughout. Couple this to the fact mid-race drivers will generally be more racy than at the end, and I logically arrive at the conclusion that fastest laps now mean less than before.

         drivers are more likely to be on a similar fuel load at all points during the race

         True, but since the potential for setting a fastest lap is only really there at the end, we have the same situation as back when refueling was allowed: at the end of the race everybody was on a similar fuel load as well.
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            frood19 (@frood19)
            27th May 2014, 10:21

            in the refuelling era no one ever ‘zero-stopped’ – the only instance i can recall was mika salo at monaco in 1997 and that race was shortened to 62 laps.
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   DaveD (@daved)
   26th May 2014, 17:46

   So, fastest lap is within 1.9 seconds of last years fastest lap. Hmmm, not too bad for overall speed. Monaco is not exactly a great track for these new cars with less downforce and the tyres are harder this year than last year. So, not bad.

   It will be interesting to see if they can get within a second of last years fastest lap at Monza. That’s a track that clearly favors this years Formula the best and they’ll have another 3 months of developing the new cars and they’re making good progress. Will be interesting. I’d say that by mid way through next year, we’ll see lap times back on par with 2013.

   The interesting thing will be to see if they truly push the new tech going forward. There are some new developments in SiC for the electronics (the inverters…which take up a great deal of space and cooling needs) and progress in battery/supercaps that could allow them to reduce the size, weight and cooling requirements for these systems by over 50% each. They could start to focus on getting the cars more aerodynamically clean with less air for cooling, lighter and letting the drivers gain a few kilos back again. I bet a couple of them would love to eat a cheeseburger right about now :)
6. 

   Ferdinand
   28th May 2014, 17:34

   Interesting to see the Merc boys were faster on their new softs, than the last laps on old supersofts. Even without the stops during the SC, Hamilton would have a change by putting a few banker laps and pitting later than Rosberg. And would have never allowed Lewis for an undercut.
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      Ferdinand
      28th May 2014, 17:35

      Hamilton would NOT have a CHANCE to overtake Nico by pitting later.
7. 

   kenneth chapman
   1st June 2014, 23:30

   where are the pit to car radio transcripts?

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