2024 Monaco Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread ๐๏ธ
2024 Monaco Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread ๐๏ธ
ROUND 8:ย ๐ฒ๐จ Monaco
FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2024
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1950
- Number of laps: 78
- Circuit Length: 3.337 km
- Race Distance: 260.286 km
- Lap record: 1:12.909 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
Oh my god that was dangerous from Ocon, Gasly is absolutely right to be pissed.
Ocon literally did what he did to Perez back at Force India - overtake stupidly and leave no room for his teammate.
Haas and Alpines taking each other out. Typical Sunday.
Haas was a stupid move by Magnussen, he shouldn't have been there, Nico got caught in it. Ocon, what was he trying to do?
Oh look an overtake.....I have seen enough...Bottas DOTD
Vote him for the Overtake award.
Holy shit Perez's car. Thankfully he's out of the car.
Wow overtakes(plural)แ(แ)แ
Checo should do a Kimi and go straight onto a yacht to his family lol
Going by past evidence, it is more likely that he will go to a yacht with people who are not his family \s
Oof
The video editor's gonna have a hard time extending the race highlights over a minute
Haha the F1TV commentary just mentioned the exact same thing.
Hey, there was a Bottas overtake on Sargeant and now Stroll on Zhou in the tunnel. What an exciting race
Ah classic, Alpines bonking into each other. Huge lift off the ground.
Wow crazy management going on. This seems that it could be pretty dull.
As is tradition! This race needs to go, I get the tradition behind the race, but the cars are just too damn fast and large for this track anymore.
Everyone is trying to go slower than the next driver, that's not racing!
Finally a pass on track! Bottas just got ahead of Sargeant.
Red flag should be pretty good for the race leaders who started on mediums as they can slap on a set of hards now and likely go to the end of the race on them. Not so good for the Mercedes and Max behind starting on the hards, as they'll have to either stop for mediums later or stick on mediums now but these will likely not last until the end of the race.
Oh my god now the Alpines! Monaco 70 is quite a mess this far
First points for Williams, great job Albono.
An overtake? THAT COUNTS FOR THE STATISTICS
Tsunoda and Albon in 8th and 9th just got lapped by Russell and Verstappen in 5th and 6th..
And now Zhou and Sargeant have been lapped twice, I have not seen this in a long time.
The gap between the big four teams and the rest has absolutely blown up today
It has been a crazy race.
Russell taking it super slow with the medium tire. Guess the plan's to take it till the end.
He's finally done it! Well done Leclerc.
Quite surprised to see Russell hold off Verstappen until the end.
Well Verstappen was off it the entire weekend. I would say this was his worst weekend in the last 4 years. He was atleast hustling the car last year in Singapore, here he looked dead/uninterested.
Very happy for Charles!
But something needs to happen to this race. As it is now it is a Saturday race with qualifying, the race on Sunday is negligible, boring even.
They need to spray the track with water at a random time to give us wet racing ๐คช
Well, this is an old school track so how about we honor the old school 'adventures' that made racing so dangerous and exciting?
- The water spraying at unknown intervals as you mentioned
- Force all the drivers to drink a pint of whiskey and smoke a cigar before they are allowed to enter their cars
- Make the guardrails out of bails of hay
- Make sure that the runoff areas are running off into the harbour
- Mandatory faulty wheel nut, you just do not know which of the four it will be
- Helmets made from leather
- No visors allowed, just a ray-ban clubmasters
Perhaps if we introduce these rules the race will become more entertaining?
Damn it, a safety car was so close
Stroll nearly gave us some chaos.
He nearly gave us some overtakes and pit activity
At last some thing has happened with stroll pitting
Yay Red Bull floor pics
Sargeant seems to be dropping like a stone: he has been passed by Botas and Stroll, now Zhou is right in his gearbox...
How slow can we drive, and still not be passed. That seems to be the question.
Will be interesting to see if max can go forward somewhat
Highly improbable unless there is rain or an appropriately timed safety car.
Can't wait for the replay.
It kinda looks like a racing incident since the track is narrow or it's on both Checo and KMag
Oh great Sainz can attempt another assassination on Piastri...
Name a better love story than Ocon and penalties
Magnussen and penalties. Surprised he didn't wind up with a race ban after today.
Max is surprising slow after catching upto Russell. I thought he would all over his back
The cars are too fucking reliable to give an interesting Monaco race. The fact that there was a 1st lap red flag further diminished any hope of excitement.
Perez out of the GP
This race is just background noise while I do better things.
This could get tasty
Once the top 4 catch up to backmarkers they have to pit, surely?
No why. They will just lap them and continue as normal. No need to pit now as they have all used both compunds
Wtf is this race?
Mercedes you idiot sandwichs
Since Ocon is out this leaves Stroll to spice things up. Hereโs hoping for a classic Stroll overtake that takes several cars out of the race!
Stroll just had a puncture ๐ญ
Couldnโt have happened to a nicer guy!
Almost nailed it!
So many on the mediums? We betting on more safety cars?
Nah, they're betting on driving slowly, checkmate :D
Congratulations to Leclerc.
Wow Sainz starting from P3 for restart. Huge for him.
Coolcoolcool a second chance to run into Oscar ๐
edit - some salty ferrari simp has now disliked all comments referencing this lmao
It's races like this that make me question why sprints aren't more popular. Because some fans just don't seem to handle actual racing.
Sainz is taking that gunner role pretty seriously.
Does someone know the pit window for the hard runners ?
No need to pit. They have already changed to a second compound at the red flag. They are going to the end
Pit window is around 20 seconds. If you are asking for the lap endurance for the hard tires Iโm not sure, but none of them need to change since they already changed tires on the red flag.
Thanks that helps.
Standing start
Come on Piastri, send it.
Come on Oscar force Leclerc in the traffic.
This race is looking very good for Ferrari, McLaren need to do something now..