2016 Monaco Grand Prix - Monte Carlo, Thu 26 – Sun 29 May

[i70q7m7ghw]

I would like to congratulate Nico Rosberg on winning the 2016 WDC!

It's been shocking how unlucky Hamilton has been this year, but hey that's the way it goes sometimes.

[GrayGreat]

Aral wrote: Please knock off all this fanboyism . It has no place on this forum. The post has been removed.

[GPR-A duplicate2]

Stop hating other drivers when your favourite does not perform. Just shows how butthurt you really are.

A Nico fanboy !!! There you go. Talk about Nico and pops up the frogs.

Other than yapping, at least sometimes you should be objective in proving me wrong.

No one's talking about Lewis apart from Lewis fanboys. Why do you even care about Nico? All that jealousy and hate coming out of you, it's hard to believe. I cannot do anything other than feeling sorry for you. Carry on.

Is that how you admit, that you don't know how to even post something meaningful? Give up dude... you are just dragging on....

[GPR-A duplicate2]

- Check race and qualifying results yourself for some objectivity. Start with Russia '15. For a "second tier driver" (not objective) Rosberg has been doing a v. good job of out-pacing, out-racing and out-qualifying Hamilton for a long time. Which grade driver is Hamilton then?

A 3 time champion, who beat his team mate in the last two years to win 2 WDCs.

- Hamilton should consider himself lucky he didn't get a grid penalty thanks to lack of objectivity

As if Nico got in 2014, even though he purposefully caused yellow flag.

[Vasconia]

Hamilton will try to attack Nico but this season Nico is having much better starts than Lewis so he should be careful, and Sebastian will try something because. This is his only chance to reach the podium on this race.

[notsofast]

Let's say RIC manages to stay in the lead, and he pits before all the others, to avoid the undercut, and then does two stints on US while everyone else does one stint on SS. Could a strategy like that work? Could he build up enough of a lead in his second stint to still be ahead after his second pit stop?

[Silent Storm]

Did Kimi qualify on used US tyres?

[i70q7m7ghw]

Let's say RIC manages to stay in the lead, and he pits before all the others, to avoid the undercut, and then does two stints on US while everyone else does one stint on SS. Could a strategy like that work? Could he build up enough of a lead in his second stint to still be ahead after his second pit stop?

The SC will define who wins. It always does at Monaco.

[Nuvolari]

I did some back of the envelope calcs and here are my predictions for Monaco qualifying:

Mercedes: 1:13.2 - 1:13.4
Red Bull: 1:13.5 - 1:13.7 (PU upgrade lap time gain 0.2-0.3s included)
Ferrari: 1:14.0 - 1:14.2
McLaren: 1:15.1 - 1:15.3
Force India: 1:15.1 - 1:15.3
Torro Rosso: 1:15.3 - 1:15.5
Williams: 1:15.7 - 1:15.9

It will be very close between McLaren and Force India for Q3 spots. As much as I'd like it, there is no way McLaren are suddenly going to be fighting Ferrari.

Was pretty much on target with these predictions for McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari!!

Hamilton could've been on pole today, with the Mercedes car troubles, their Q3 runs wasn't optimised as well as they could. Congrats to Ricciardo though, great lap for his 1st pole!

The Force India and Torro Rosso were working better than predicted, but it was close between FI and McLaren for Q3. The TR seemed to have better race pace than Force India though.

Williams were also 0.5s faster than predicted, so may be they have made some progress.

[basti313]

Let's say RIC manages to stay in the lead, and he pits before all the others, to avoid the undercut, and then does two stints on US while everyone else does one stint on SS. Could a strategy like that work? Could he build up enough of a lead in his second stint to still be ahead after his second pit stop?

No way. The US will be used for 25 to 30 laps, then 50 laps on SS. Putting a gap on the US with the SS is not possible, it will be hard enough to avoid the undercut. So he would need to put a 25sec gap in 25 laps to gain the second pit stop...
As there will be not much SS starters like last year S starters, the Mercs will not be in traffic when they pit after 3 laps. So I think it will be more like a short, flat out SS stint and going for S once traffic allows it, and the US are done on the Mercs.

[nevill3]

No penalty for KMag for leaving the Pit when the red light was on, and no further action regarding Kyvat's car failing scrutineering (Floor Deflection test) because of damage sustained riding over a kerb. So the only penalty is Kimi due to a change of gearbox.

http://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-o ... rmation-16

[godlameroso]

Wait up, hold on one minute, how are you guys so certain that it's going to be a dry race with similar circumstances to today? I'm seeing changing conditions, with a fair chance of rain tomorrow, won't be too heavy but it will cause teams nightmares as many people go onto the wrong tire at the wrong time.

[flickerf1]

Wait up, hold on one minute, how are you guys so certain that it's going to be a dry race with similar circumstances to today? I'm seeing changing conditions, with a fair chance of rain tomorrow, won't be too heavy but it will cause teams nightmares as many people go onto the wrong tire at the wrong time.

My weather forcasting app is saying there's a 90% chance of rain.

[basti313]

Wait up, hold on one minute, how are you guys so certain that it's going to be a dry race with similar circumstances to today?

No one is certain about a dry race....be "It might rain, so we should not discuss dry strategies here" was never a good point...

[godlameroso]

It's a fair point, it's a one stop race, getting that stop perfectly timed will decide the race. The US tires can go ~22 laps, the SS can easily go half race distance and there's not much difference between the two compounds, the soft is useless. What we don't know is how good are the intermediates, or the rain tires around here because NO ONE has used wet weather Pirelli tires here, in fact I think the last wet race was 2008 back in the Bridgestone era. The race is most assuredly going to start wet, the highest probability of rain will be around 10 am - 2 pm local time, right when the race is scheduled to start, so conditions will slowly be improving, that said it may rain and drizzle throughout the race. So then do you stay on inters, take a chance on a dry line forming, use full wets due to conditions not really improving. And when do you switch, you could go on to dry tires because you see a dry line forming only to have the rain pick up again and put you in the wall. Or you could pit and luck into first because of a safety car when someone picked the wrong rubber to go on and plowed into the wall coming out of the tunnel.

Side bet bingo action:
2 safety cars, Massa crashes, Vettel will curse like a sailor, Kvyat causes an accident inheriting the title of crashtor. Hamilton will have a quiet podium, Riccardo wins, Verstappen finishes dead last.