Even though Circuit de Monaco is not my favourite, the race was so interesting for me :)
I'm Mercedes fan, so I was so nervous because of the situation between drivers. I was just praying "please, don't crash in first corner :/"
But let's starts from the real beginning.
FP1 and FP2 were on thursday instead of friday ( that's tradition).
In FP1 Mercedes on top and Daniel Ricciardo, but in FP2 on top was Fernando Alonso, then Lewis Hamilton, and Sebastian Vettel. The FP2 was quite surprising since we've watched total dominance of Mercedes.
After FP3 we had Lewis Hamilton on top, Daniel Ricciardo, and Nico Rosberg. Then few hours of waiting for quali, which brings some controversy...
Lewis Hamilton was on his last, but a good lap to improve his results (maybe even get pole position), when Nico Rosber went out of track (on purpose/accidentally). "Did he, or didn't he....?" That was the main questions after the end of quali. It was almost like that: Lewis fans said" That was on purpose!" any other F1 fan said"That was accidentally". On twitter there was almost a war between fans.... but many of you saw that, so I won't comment this. Anyway, FIA checked that accident, and no further action. That was a normal accident, Nico stays on PP..
So next day, sunday race, first lap and safety car, why? Because Perez slipped into wall. Monaco is such a tight track so any accident, event small may require safety car, because it is not so easy to clean the track so quickly like on the other tracks. A very similar collision had Sutil at 25th lap. What is more Maldonado, couldn't go on warm up lap, and had to back to pits thanks to helping of his mechanics.
Later on Vettel had some problems with his car, so he had to back to the pits. Such a bad season for 4times Champion. Also Kviat, Bottas, and Vergne had some issues with theirs cars. Then Guteirrez slipped and had flat tire, he couldn't drive on.
Speakning about tyres... Massa had his super softs for 46laps, which is incredible.
Also there was an unsafe release for Vergne right on Magnussen... that was close ;)
For the whole race Lewis Hamilton was trying to catch Nico Rosberg. He even managed to be so close, but immediately the gap between them strated growning. Moment later he reported on the radio that he can't see on his left eye, because he had some dirt. But still he tried to catch Nico. When his engineer told him about gap between Ricciardo, he was angry and said " I don't care about Ricciardo, I want to know the gap to Nico, please!" The irony is that Ricciardo got so close to Lewis, and Lewis had to compete with him not Nico.
The raced finished. Nico Rosberg won the Grand Prix like last year. Mercedes drivers cut themselfs dead. The atmosphere there is getting more intense. We'll see later on in the season, what will happen. It's getting interesting, isn't it?
Also we should focus on Marussia, because they finally got points, congrats ;)
And you? What are your thoughts of Monaco GP? Share your opinion, please!
Thanks for reading! Please excuse any grammatical mistake :)
There you go the results:
Maybe they should extend the qualifying session if there is a yellow flag in the last 5 minutes?
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