Feck sake
F1 2023 Season
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Ocon starting beside Alonso will be fun.
Monaco baby
Better than anything this season, just incredible hot lapping. Max did something quite incredible in the last sector and Alonso has been on it knowing where he'd be.
This is why I can accept Monaco, it's just brilliant for testing the drivers which I can appreciate, driving on such a knife edge brushing the barriers at each corner, as a one off in the season. What we don't need is lots of poor additional street circuits.
Better than anything this season, just incredible hot lapping. Max did something quite incredible in the last sector and Alonso has been on it knowing where he'd be.
This is why I can accept Monaco, it's just brilliant for testing the drivers which I can appreciate, driving on such a knife edge brushing the barriers at each corner, as a one off in the season. What we don't need is lots of poor additional street circuits.
It was a stunning qually lap by max, probably the best of his career. The greats all have one.
Senna 1988. Monaco. Manual gearbox. Beats his teammate Alain Prost in qualifying by 2 seconds. Shame it wasnt caught on camera. Closest we have is an onboard of senna at monaco 1990. Its scary.
Schmacher japan 2000 was probably his greatest qually lap. Beating hakkinen time by 0.009 seconds with the last lap of qually and then going on to win his 3rd world title in that race. But there isnt an on board of that which is a shame.
We have hamilton in singapore 2018, under pressure from the oil burning ferrari bullet, he pulls out in his words "his greatest ever qually lap"
Going further back there are others from other drivers, but they lack onboard footage. We are lucky we get to see onboard footage now.
Alonso and Max qualifying lap comparison.
He gained almost 0,2 in the swimming pool chicane, incredible.
So excited for today. The most intriguing race on the calendar.
In a nutshell:
1. Aston has much better traction coming out of corners
2. Red Bull a lot better on the brakes
3. Max's final sector was fantastic
That's because it pretty much is the race, there's always so much more riding on qualification at Monaco and anywhere else
Your going to be very disappointed. When has there ever been a exciting race at monaco? Only when it rains.
Agreed. Qually is the highlight of the monaco weekend. Its a wierd one where qually viewing figures are higher than the actual race.
The race to the first corner could be fun.
so how is the weather forecast now? any chance of rain?
Only race i can think of where they should enforce the usage of all three compounds. At some risk with pitstops and more of a chance of things being mixed up.
It'll be another one stop strategy (the same as every other race this year). Silverstone can't come soon enough for the revised construction from Pirelli.
Mercedes-RB-Ferrari floors compared.
I wonder what Fernando and Max have been talking about during driver's parade.
Fascinating answer from Max on Sky to the standard "There's talk of you leaving after your current contract" type question. Rather than brush it aside with a default answer he basically said he does want to go race in other series such as Le Mans and wants to do it whilst still young enough and in his peak to perform. Pointed out his interest in other series/cars in simulators is an indication that F1 isn't everything to him.
That's nothing new though is it? He's always been fairly straight and consistent on that question, when asked.
Brundle is gold on the grid. Asking Thibaut Courtois if he is rooting for his fellow Spaniards Alonso and Sainz 
It not really, well only if it rains, otherwise is a just a procession.
Pole sitter is King here.
Expect to hear more of this in the future. Mental health awareness will create these all conquering athletes with view points similar to this.
Thunderstorms likely around 3:15 pm (the weather still changes by the minute?)
Interesting, but I wonder if copying just the floor without the suspension would get you anywhere.
Interesting tyres selection.
Interesting strategy for Alonso, hopefully he can keep Ocon behind after lap 1.
Mixed strategies, could be interesting.
clean getaway
Oh Stroll.
Going to be absolutely rubbish now.
That's smart from Red Bull (Pérez).
I guess Hulkenberg will be penalised for that, he was out of control.
early pit for Perez, barring rain that will be his only stop.
Russel out of postion at the start, 100% penalty coming his way.
Nico Hulkenberg gets a five-second time penalty for causing that collision on lap one.
Ocon already 4 sec behind Alonso.
Hülkenberg has too much experience to be panicking like that on Lap 1 (and spinning his wheels in the pits!)