In the round-up: Carlos Sainz Jnr is another driver who expects a strong Monaco Grand Prix weekend based on his car’s performance in the final sector at the Circuit de Catalunya.
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What they say
Sainz expects Monaco to show up the qualities of his Renault chassis.
Barcelona lately has become quite a lot more power-sensitive. Turn two, turn three are flat-out, turn nine is flat out. So maybe Monaco is a more representative race of where we stand in terms of chassis performance.
I’m excited about that because I think we have a good car. I was seventh-fastest in the last sector in Barcelona in Q3 the other weekend so it could be a good indication although Monaco is always a bit different.
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
Here's how many power unit components each driver has used ahead of the #MonacoGP. #F1 pic.twitter.com/coa68LO9PF
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The VHS you never had. Together with @Formula1game, and the voice of #F1, Murray Walker, we present Senna's stunningly quick #MonacoGP qualifying lap from 1988. #LegendaryLaps pic.twitter.com/ZQ0zB0ZmQZ
— McLaren (@McLarenF1) May 23, 2018
Excited to add a few more pieces to an inspiring career! (14,819 to be exact 😉) Good luck on Sunday @DanicaPatrick! #Indy500 pic.twitter.com/umTxczn4R2
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) May 22, 2018
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Vettel disagrees with phasing out of ‘grid girls’ in Monaco (The Guardian)
"The women would be present as part of a long-standing commercial relationship between the race and watch manufacturer Tag Heuer and would only be taking pictures and showing messages from social media. The ‘grid kids’ will still be present and FOM insisted there had been no change in policy."
F1 sponsors fill the gap left by walk-on models (Reuters)
"'They are not acting as ‘grid girls’,' he added, using the term commonly used in Formula One to refer to the walk-on models. 'Grid girls, as we have seen holding drivers’ number cards, are not any more a part of Formula One”'."
Mercedes used Barcelona test to find solutions for Monaco - Bottas (Crash)
"I think we’ve learnt a lot from last year and we are confident with our preparation, it’s definitely been better than ever before. We came from the last race knowing that this is going to be one of the tougher of the races for us."
Ferrari to experiment with old suspension in Monaco (Motorsport)
"The result appears to be that there are doubts over the new rear suspension, which is why Vettel's car was fitted with the old version ahead of opening practice in Monaco."
"Even now, several days later, knowing what caused our problems, and knowing we had no chance of solving them in that situation on pit lane no matter what we had tried, I am still gutted. However I am also trying to rise up and be thankful."
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Comment of the day
@JayMenon10 responds to @DieterRencken’s article on the importance of the legacies left by building permanent racing circuits:
As someone who grew up in Malaysia, I cannot stress the importance Sepang had on the motor racing legacy locally. I myself grew up watching MotoGP as kid, due to the local interest in motorbikes, and with the a local round at the old Batu Tiga track, it was always in the media and races were shown on TV. When I was in school, kids talked about Mic Doohan being their hero. F1 wasn’t really on the radar.
In fact, F1 races were broadcast after a week’s delay in the early to mid-nineties. When it was announced that Sepang was being built and that F1 was coming to Malaysia, there was a demonstrable increase in interest. There was more coverage about F1 in general, plus races were shown in a mix of live and delayed (typically two hours after the end of a grand prix) broadcasts. It certainly had an affect on me. By 1999, I was totally hooked.
@JayMenon10
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gus maia
24th May 2018, 0:41
Kinda funny: bringing models to the grid = objetification; putting a guy into a box at 200mph inches of a wall, subject to injury and death = humpf, ok.
And it boggles me that the girls probably earn in three days the same or more than what the security guards at the circuits get in a month, and nobody cares about guys who work around F1 in worst conditions.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
24th May 2018, 2:20
Extreme left movements, I thought that was just Stroll gently steering to a left kink. Now seriously, hear this man above. The motivation to drop grid girls was hypocritical and a sign of weakness facing peer pressure, no one likes to drop places on the grid.
Now seriously, it was a good job and well paid, surely healthier than paying to have a stroll on the grid.
kpcart
24th May 2018, 3:52
Guys like you will never understand sexism and sexual equality, its a women’s issue, most women disapprove of it, a man saying grid girls should or shouldn’t be there is not right. And yes, it is completely objectifying women, for instance they not not put fat old women there, they select good looking ones for mens pleasure, not for female race fans pleasure. Call it leftist, better than being stuck in dark ages like trumpeters. .
Aapje (@aapje)
24th May 2018, 13:20
@kpcart
There are no fat old drivers either, clearly the drivers get objectified too.
Coldfly
24th May 2018, 8:09
I wonder if a real fan (money no issue) prefers to have a stroll on the grid or see his favourite individual not being punished with a grid drop.
@peartree
Jay Menon (@jaymenon10)
24th May 2018, 1:06
2 CoTDs in a week!
Thanks Keith :)!
AmirAnuar (@amiranuar)
24th May 2018, 9:47
Congratulation @jaymenon10, hope Mahathir will bring back F1 to sepang.
BasCB (@bascb)
24th May 2018, 20:00
Well deserved too @jaymenon10!
Phylyp (@phylyp)
24th May 2018, 3:03
With the number of drivers expecting to do well in Monaco, I’m expecting 18 cars on pole position, with Williams somehow still on the last row.
Jere (@jerejj)
24th May 2018, 3:10
@phylyp Agreed, LOL.
Jere (@jerejj)
24th May 2018, 3:11
Circuit de Catalunya is still predominantly an aero-circuit, though.
Coldfly
24th May 2018, 8:18
Yet the Red Bull Air Race is done just off the Barcelona beaches.
nase
24th May 2018, 13:42
Really, no one? Guess it’s up to me to do what has to be done:
*ba dum tss*
kpcart
24th May 2018, 3:54
I highly doubt sainz will qualify 2nd on the grid the way kubica did with a Renault in 2010. I think Renault position in the order is similar to what they were in 2010 order.
Mark Zastrow (@markzastrow)
24th May 2018, 4:23
Pippa Mann’s blog post in full is one of the most gripping, revealing, and gut-wrenching accounts of Bump Day I’ve ever read.
Reading the details of how they found themselves boxed in on car setup makes you appreciate the risk and sheer danger in the choices that the drivers make in setting a car up for Indianapolis just to make the field—and how few challenges there are like it remaining in world motorsport.
In F1, we’re used to drivers and teams trading downforce and grip for top end speed, but nowhere on the calendar do they face a setup choice where going in one direction so appreciably changes the risk equation to the drivers very lives as at Indy.
Sravan Krishnan (@sravan-pe)
24th May 2018, 4:24
I’m sorry to say that McLaren tribute wasn’t the most gripping thing in the world, it just made the entire lap seem rather slow. One of the real onboards from another session of the same GP highlighted the madness to its actual magnitude. A good gesture though and the famous “Murrayism” at the end was quite funny :D
montreal95 (@montreal95)
24th May 2018, 11:44
@sravan-pe Yeah, never liked these “game-style” recreated laps, it’s nothing like the real thing and an affront to the eyes. Could’ve found a better way for the tribute, Murray’s commentary notwithstanding
Zim
24th May 2018, 17:05
Agreed. Pretty dreadful.
Shimks (@shimks)
24th May 2018, 8:16
Looking at that table of power unit components usage, I think it’s very clear that Mercedes are going to beat Ferrari to the championship again this year. Once those penalties start coming in, it will be all over.
Coldfly
24th May 2018, 10:22
One in race component failure hurts more than a grid penalty.
Shimks (@shimks)
24th May 2018, 12:30
True! And the table is also representative of this risk occuring per team.
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
24th May 2018, 12:24
@shimks I tend to agree on the reliability side of things. I think that’s the trump card that Mercedes are holding and the reason I’ve always favoured Hamilton for the championship, even though Ferrari has looked faster more often this season. Of course, Vettel’s reliability has held up so far and maybe will continue to do so but past performance is the best indicator which suggests it’s likely something will go at some stage. Also, Ferrari clearly made big improvements on power output so I’d be surprised if the new design had been tested thoroughly enough to ensure it can reliably meet the strict mileage demands for this year.
Shimks (@shimks)
24th May 2018, 12:31
Yes, that last point is a very good one, @keithedin.
stefano (@alfa145)
24th May 2018, 17:34
Am I alone in finding the McLaren Senna video a bit… cringy?
GT Racer (@gt-racer)
24th May 2018, 17:55
Seems Liberty have sent out a fan survey as I got one in my inbox this morning.
Anyway they really, really want you to say you like sprint races & reverse grids as several of the questions focus on those things & are setup in such a way that they indirectly get you to show interest in a qualifying sprint race.
There are a bunch of questions that force you to pick an option for a sprint race even if you don’t like the idea of a sprint race.
There is also a question about how many cars should score points which doesn’t give any options below 11 with no option to stick with what we have.
https://puu.sh/ArULf/7124e4512a.png
This official fan survey that says answers are going to be used to formulate the future of the sport has so many leading questions/answers that it’s almost forcing you to pick answers you don’t like & agree with what they want to do even if you don’t.
The GPDA one from a couple years ago was very well worded & very balanced in what it was asking & the options available, This is the complete opposite in a lot of cases.
George (@george)
26th May 2018, 13:12
@gt-racer
Well Brawn has been pushing race weekend alterations since he entered the job so I’m not surprised at all. As Vettel says they just want to ‘tick the box’ before they push it through.