2015 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO

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2015 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO

Post by KevC » 19 May 2015, 19:48

2015 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO


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Monte Carlo
Lap length 3.34km (2.075 miles)
Race laps 78
Race distance 260.52km (161.88 miles)
Pole position Right-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’14.439 (161.528 kph) by Michael Schumacher, 2004
Fastest lap 1’13.532 (163.521 kph) by Kimi Raikkonen, 2006
Maximum speed 283kph (175.848 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight
Distance from grid to turn one 210m

Schedule
Thursday 21st May 2015
Monaco Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 9:00-10:30)
Monaco Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 13:00-14:30)
Saturday 23rd May 2015
Monaco Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 11:00-12:00 (UK time: 10:00-11:00)
Monaco Grand Prix Qualifying: 14:00 (UK time: 13:00)
Sunday 24th May 2015
Monaco Grand Prix: 14:00 (UK time: 13:00)

Previous Winners
2014: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
2013: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
2012: Mark Webber (Red Bull)
2011: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)
2010: Mark Webber (Red Bull)

Webber on board 2010


Senna on board 1990


Hill on board + commentary 1970


Facts and Figures from the last race

Nine different drivers have won the last nine Spanish Grands Prix – with Nico Rosberg the most recent to add his name to the winner’s trophy.

This unusual streak began with Felipe Massa in 2007. All bar one of the different winners are still racing in F1 today.
2007 Felipe Massa
2008 Kimi Raikkonen
2009 Jenson Button
2010 Mark Webber
2011 Sebastian Vettel
2012 Pastor Maldonado
2013 Fernando Alonso
2014 Lewis Hamilton
2015 Nico Rosberg

Rosberg has finished all five races this year in the position he started. But winning from pole position is far from unusual at the Circuit de Catalunya – 13 out of the last 15 pole sitters went on to win the race.

Rosberg’s pole position was the 16th of his career, putting him level with two other drivers currently racing in F1 – Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa – as well as Stirling Moss. It was Mercedes’ 40th pole position too. However Lewis Hamilton kept Rosberg from taking a hat-trick by setting the race’s fastest lap. That was the 23rd of his career, giving him as many as Juan Manuel Fangio and Nelson Piquet.

Hamilton also extended his streak of consecutive podium finishes to 12. This is the third-best in F1 history: Michael Schumacher holds the record with 19 (from the 2001 United States to 2002 Japanese Grands Prix) and Fernando Alonso managed 15 (2005 Turkish to 2006 Canadian Grands Prix). This was Hamilton’s 75th career podium.

Hamilton’s run of leading the last 14 races in a row is also the third-best ever seen in F1. The record for this is 45 years old: Jackie Stewart led 17 consecutive races from 1968 to 1970. Hamilton needs one more to equal Schumacher’s best of 15. However next on the calendar is Monaco, where Hamilton hasn’t led a lap since his sole F1 win there in 2008.

Only the Mercedes and Ferrari drivers have led races so far this year. That same quartet have also accounted for all bar five of the laps drivers have spent in second place this year. Surprisingly, the only other driver to have run in second this year is Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg, during the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Mercedes drivers have now spent more than 2,000 laps in the lead of F1 races. But they’ve a long way to go to reach record-holders Ferrari on 13,726.

Jenson Button made his 100th start for McLaren

The whole GP2 field would have qualified within the Q1 107% time. They would also all be ahead of Mehri, and all but four ahead of Stevens.



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Re: 2015 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO

Post by François » 24 May 2015, 13:58

lmao xd
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Re: 2015 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO

Post by donald29 » 24 May 2015, 14:43

A very dull race turns into one that is going to be talked about for a while... What were Mercedes thinking?

Both he and Nico handled themselves very well after the race though.

Toto Wolff saying Ferrari might pit... Mercedes would still have had track position! There's no way of justifying that call... it was a complete cock-up!

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Re: 2015 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO

Post by KevC » 24 May 2015, 17:29

Yeah it seems like everyone but them could see it wasn't worth pitting.

Seems though they were looking at the last lap gap and not the realtime one which was 3s shorter.

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