Monaco GP 2011 - Monte Carlo

[kalinka]

PM me for BBC live stream if you want to watch FP2.

[andrew]

Its Schumacher guys... every time he does something people multiply it times 100.

Not when he wins. Then people say it's just the car

And it's sadly going the same way for Vettel. Instead of celebrating great success and someone being at the top of their game, people look for excuses and try pretty hard to belittle their achievements.

[kalinka]

Same applies for all successfull drivers when they're dominating. You're not alone, but no need to make god from him too. No offense of course.

[marcush.]

nah .Schumacher lost it in Ste.Devote.He´s not the first and will not be the last .End of FP1 is maybe the time you can afford it -maybe end of FP2 would have been a little more convenient..still laps in the bag just no timed lap so a big gap to nico.He can live with that.Wasn´t the plan to only work for the race setup ?

[kalinka]

Huh....Alonso nearly crashed into the back of Massa's car. It was very very close.

[spadeflush]

BBC Radio summariser Karun Chandhok: "The asphalt here is completely different to Turkey or Barcelona as it's a normal street. The surface does not have the same amount of abrasion. On the soft tyre, the drivers were doing 20/30 laps in the first session with no real drop off. The drivers I spoke to said they did not have any tyre degradation. It's like the Bridgestone era. The option tyre will be key here, can they go the rest of the distance if the primes do 40 laps."

thats interesting

[Richard]

One poster used the word "smash" and we get torrent of angry posts. Why be so defensive? He hit the a barrier, and as this is a technical forum that fact should suffice.

Meanwhile Merc's mechanics are still trying to put Schumacher's car back together, 15 min into FP2.

His rear wheel went into the barrier first, then the front. So most of the force would have gone through the rear axle. As Bruno Senna said on the commentary, the crew will need to check the diff and gearbox, as well as the rear suspension. His front right suspension was broken. I wonder if the floor or side pods were damaged too?

As Senna said, teams hate a driver having a side impact because there are so many more parts to break, whereas a front impact is usually easier to repair.

Edit to add - Schumacher got on track 20 min after the start of FP2

[FrukostScones]

Vettel SuperSoft
Massa Supersoft with nice drifting/skidding/powersliding =D>

[JohnsonsEvilTwin]

Blimey, Those Ferrari's look a bit scary! All over the place....

Quick but not condusive to keeping your nose clean round Monaco!

[ringo]

PM stream link please !!

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

Massa long runs seems very fast with Super soft tyre.

[ringo]

Any links?

[FrukostScones]

no, sorry!

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

No sorry
I'm at work

[Lorenzo_Bandini]

It's seems that all the rear at the Ferrari have changed, it's really tight