F1 Monaco Race

Blackmage · 25-05-2008, 09:05 PM

What a good race. Hamilton drove a very good race to win, even though he made an critical error at the start. I thought Sutil had a very good race until Kimi hit him. A Rainy Monaco track with no assists makes for some good TV.

What did you all think?

Bleak · 25-05-2008, 09:26 PM

Probably one of the better F1 races I've seen in a long time. When watching the cars go round with the on board camera you could hear all the wheel spin and see the drivers struggling to control the car. This is the sort of thing most people were looking forward to with the lack of driving aids etc this season.

Felt really sorry for Sutil tbh, even a 4th place finish would've felt like a victory for him.

muddyfox470 · 25-05-2008, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by Blackmage

What a good race. Hamilton drove a very good race to win, even though he made an critical error at the start. I thought Sutil had a very good race until Kimi hit him. A Rainy Monaco track with no assists makes for some good TV.

What did you all think?

Wasn't that what the commentators said

Thought it was one of the better races, lots of drama

MadduckUK · 25-05-2008, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by Bleak

Felt really sorry for Sutil tbh

i couldnt believe that. they jinxed the hell out of him

TiG · 25-05-2008, 10:20 PM

A wet monaco sure did shake up the form book, i can't believe sutil's misfortune

A very interesting race without any definite winner till the very end, I hope rosberg didn't suffer to much damage with his recent set of crashes.

And what did alonso think he was doing?????. How many nose cones he wanted?. And that "attempt" at passing heidfeld like WTF.

TiG

Koolpc · 25-05-2008, 10:20 PM

Hamilton did really well.

Tumble · 25-05-2008, 10:27 PM

I was really gutted for poor old Sutil... I wonder if Force India will send Ferrari a bill?

MSIC · 25-05-2008, 10:34 PM

Really entertaining, the thing with Sutil could have been written as a drama, poor bugger. Did you see the shot of him later crying with his bosses arms around him?

ACiD303 · 25-05-2008, 10:51 PM

I wonder if Force India will send Ferrari a bill?

The most that would probably happen with that is Ferrari will knock a few digits off their engine deal . . . if that. It's a racing incident, as much as it's painful these things happen in the sport - Raikonnen obviously felt bad enough to have apologised to Force India and Sutil after the race, obviously realising there's not going to be much other opportunity for team and/or driver to be in the same situation. But hey, after Vettel's smack into Webber in the rain last year in a TR, he still managed to claim a 4th later . . . so you never know.

Anyway, Sutil's been cautioned over his overtaking of Nakajima in yellow flag conditions:

autosport.com - F1 News: Sutil reprimanded for passing under yellow

He's lucky he didn't receive any more than this...but what were they gonna do, demote him a further 5 places when he pretty much isn't getting into Q2 anyway?

Not the best day for Sutil anyway.

Blackmage · 25-05-2008, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by muddyfox470

Wasn't that what the commentators said

Thought it was one of the better races, lots of drama

Yeah, Not word for word. They were spot on their commentary unlike normal.

I do feel sorry for Alonso though, He pushes the Renault to the max and Was the first to try the drys.

MadduckUK · 26-05-2008, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by Tumble

... I wonder if Force India will send Ferrari a bill?

erm.. no probably not, why would they

iranu · 26-05-2008, 07:56 PM

I wish it would rain at alot of other tracks too. Lets face it we wanna see great driving and accidents (where the driver walks away unharmed) so rain would encourage that.

cadman · 26-05-2008, 08:21 PM

Lets Hope Hamilton can continue his winning streak and his luck holds out.

I would love him to get the Championship Title this year after having come so close last year

chuckskull · 26-05-2008, 09:14 PM

I was gutted for sutil, poor lad didn't put a foot wrong the entire race and it was ruined by kimi being silly. Every race recently the Ferraris have seemed to have made at least one bonehead mistake.

Nice win for Hamilton though, luckiest puncture ever

digit · 26-05-2008, 09:24 PM

I'm annoyed that kimi ended what was a cracking race for sutil and force india, they really needed a decent finish

Hamilton was very jammy winning like he did. Alonso going through all the nose cones he did was class, as was his ramming into the side of heidfeld! Pleased I tuned in, although I didnt enjoy it as much as I have in previous years watching Monaco.

staffsMike · 26-05-2008, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by digit

I'm annoyed that kimi ended what was a cracking race for sutil and force india, they really needed a decent finish Hamilton was very jammy winning like he did. Alonso going through all the nose cones he did was class, as was his ramming into the side of heidfeld! Pleased I tuned in, although I didnt enjoy it as much as I have in previous years watching Monaco.

I don't think Hamilton was that jammy. By the end of it they were all on one stop fuel strategies it was just the tyres which let them down and he actually did stop twice remember. Through all of that managed to get a near 40 second lead which was still 20ish when he had pitted the second time.

It certainly didnt hurt him to have to stop early but it wasn't a fluke that he won.

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