2012 Monaco Grand Prix (May 24 - 27)

[Wouter Melissen]

Traditionally, the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix starts a day early with the first practice sessions scheduled for Thursday. It will be interesting to see how ("Williams") will deal with scoring their first victory in many years and how they have recovered from the massive garage fire they suffered just a few hours after that historic win.

[kingofthering]

Is the mystery team Williams, by any chance?

[faksta]

Hope that the trend with different winners from different teams will continue, so looking for Lotus or Sauber victory. Pretty serious, it's about time for Kimi to finally win the race this year.

[Dino Scuderia]

Kobayashi FTW!

[RacingManiac]

Originally Posted by Dino Scuderia

Kobayashi FTW!

This plus a million...

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by faksta

Hope that the trend with different winners from different teams will continue, so looking for Lotus or Sauber victory. Pretty serious, it's about time for Kimi to finally win the race this year.

Oh, fo sho.

[csl177]

Yes! Kimi post-race interviews have been sorely missed.

[pimento]

Yes I am very excited for the day that Kimi wins again and can give us his usual gleeful post race interview.

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by pimento

Yes I am very excited for the day that Kimi wins again and can give us his usual gleeful post race interview.

"It was easy."

I used to notice he said that quite a lot when he was winning.

[Wouter Melissen]

Alonso tops first practice:

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m16.265s 22
2. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m16.630s + 0.365 17
3. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m16.711s + 0.446 19
4. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m16.747s + 0.482 12
5. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m16.760s + 0.495 20
6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m16.843s + 0.578 19
7. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m17.038s + 0.773 21
8. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m17.190s + 0.925 13
9. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m17.222s + 0.957 14
10. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m17.261s + 0.996 18
11. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m17.413s + 1.148 14
12. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m17.631s + 1.366 18
13. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m18.106s + 1.841 14
14. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m18.209s + 1.944 25
15. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m18.252s + 1.987 28
16. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m18.302s + 2.037 16
17. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m18.617s + 2.352 20
18. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m19.039s + 2.774 20
19. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m19.341s + 3.076 16
20. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m20.838s + 4.573 26
21. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m20.895s + 4.630 18
22. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m21.638s + 5.373 9
23. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m22.423s + 6.158 15
24. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1

Fernando Alonso tops first Monaco GP practice - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com

Button came out on top in the second, wet practice but Grosjean seems to be the one to watch.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m15.746s 14
2. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m16.138s + 0.392 17
3. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m16.602s + 0.856 19
4. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m16.661s + 0.915 21
5. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m16.820s + 1.074 18
6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m17.021s + 1.275 13
7. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m17.148s + 1.402 21
8. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m17.153s + 1.407 20
9. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m17.293s + 1.547 9
10. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m17.303s + 1.557 19
11. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m17.375s + 1.629 17
12. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m17.395s + 1.649 19
13. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m17.655s + 1.909 18
14. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m17.800s + 2.054 23
15. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m18.251s + 2.505 22
16. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m18.440s + 2.694 23
17. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m18.522s + 2.776 20
18. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m18.808s + 3.062 24
19. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m19.267s + 3.521 23
20. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m19.309s + 3.563 27
21. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m20.029s + 4.283 13
22. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m20.240s + 4.494 19
23. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m20.631s + 4.885 12
24. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m20.886s + 5.140 10

Jenson Button goes fastest in rain-hit second practice for the Monaco Grand Prix - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com

[faksta]

Originally Posted by Kitdy

"It was easy."

I used to notice he said that quite a lot when he was winning.

I even had his quote as my sig here for a while, an excerpt from his 2007 interview, something like this:

- 'Kimi, push, you're going to become a World Champion!' - What was going through your mind then?
- Not much really...

He's brilliant

On a sidenote, first one who wins for the second time this year will be an intrigue killer!

[malikinam]

i want to design a car which can cover 50km four laps in one hour, so am successful to achieve some information about that from this form.

[faksta]

Welcome, Malik! I, personally, am not good in tecnhical matters, but I think you may find some people to ask if you create a thread in Technical Questions, as here, in Monaco GP topic, it is less possible for you to find somebody you are searching for.

[henk4]

Originally Posted by malikinam

i want to design a car which can cover 50km four laps in one hour, so am successful to achieve some information about that from this form.

welcome, but for somebody based in Alderney, your English is quite rubbish. Perhaps you should work on improving that, in stead of trying to design a car that is already existing.

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by henk4

welcome, but for somebody based in Alderney, your English is quite rubbish. Perhaps you should work on improving that, in stead of trying to design a car that is already existing.

Pakistan IP too, so will be keeping an eye on it