F1 2023 - Round 7 : Monaco

devnull

CHAOS

Worst track ever for no grip, no margin for error.

ctrl-alt-delete

Stroll on Inters and he decides to get rid of his front wing.

PsychoPete

Stroll playing bumper cars

klose

Stroll has some lowlights reel from today

devnull

Stroll looks like someone who won a competition to drive an Aston Martin for a day.

Terrible.

Itssoeasy

Stroll hitting barriers.

Andrew76

What’s K Mag at?

Itssoeasy

Full wets for Kmag.

klose

Alonsos gamble also giving max a free stop should they need full wets or it dries (unlikely) for slicks

Andrew76

Perez on full wets too.

Brief_Lives

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650363#Comment_120650363

😂😂

ctrl-alt-delete

So much happening!

PsychoPete

I can barely keep up with all this

deafroadrunner

Absolute carnage. Can see a safety car or red flag soon

Burkie1203

5 sec for Russell is very soft. That's lethal

Andrew76

Yeah it’s great! I hope AMKC is enjoying the sun, he’s missing a cracking race! 😂😂

ShamoBuc

Ridiculous by Russell. Shocking driving.

Monco is always boring.......

Lawlesz

Stop the race, it's too dangerous for Lewis!

Struggling to keep up with all this drama

shanec1928

Max still going full send like a mad man!

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650397#Comment_120650397

C4 are going to have to show extended highlights.

They'd fill the normal slot with just Stroll today.

Itssoeasy

Bit of strategy talk from Russell.

ctrl-alt-delete

lol at Yuki

Jordan 199

Hang on for third Ocon.

Ghost Train

Starting to dry a bit, wonder will see anyone try dry tires for the last few laps

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650456#Comment_120650456

Way too risky and the inters will still be well good enough even on a drying track.

Guffy

So bad for ferrari pitting Sainz so early on the hard tyres!! How do they fúck up strategy time and time again?

PsychoPete

Checo 2 laps down to Verstappen, a bit of an embarrassment

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650463#Comment_120650463

To be fair he’s been a guinea pig today in terms of pit stops. But for sure he was lapped once genuinely. Max a level above everyone today so far, fingers crossed. 😁

Ghost Train

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650460#Comment_120650460

For anyone outside the top 10, Bottas perhaps, might consider it

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650461#Comment_120650461

Ocon had a fluff in his stop so Ferrari tried to take advantage.

Andrew76

Merc must be getting closer to Aston Martin in the championship after this race maybe? Stroll really is being shown up this season.

Jordan 199

Well done Ocon.

klose

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650484#Comment_120650484

Yeah, Aston with a superior package but will ultimately finish behind merc cause Stroll is pretty average. Even a bottas in that car would go very well.

Saves mercs blushes though, not being beaten by a customer team.

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650406#Comment_120650406

Wouldn’t surprise me if some folks still give out and call it a boring race.

Brilliant qualifying yesterday, great race today - Monaco delivered this year for a change. Delighted for Max, too good again today in all conditions. Great drive from Ocon too tbf, shame for Sainz.

Brief_Lives

my link went on lap 78...

Ghost Train

Just a pity about the extra stop for Alonso but otherwise race was pretty good with a mix of medium and hard running at the front, most did well to keep going, only 2 retirements

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650506#Comment_120650506

Just saw the points tables, Merc are 1 point behind Aston Martin now. Daddy Stroll should be giving baby Stroll a bollocking.

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650682#Comment_120650682

He'll probably put it on the strategist who put Alonso on drys. Bernie (Collins) come back, all is forgiven.

dulpit

Decent race. I had to leave tv with about 3 laps to go, did we get any real explanation as to what Aston were up to with that decision to box for slicks?

Stroll and Perez were well poor today too.

There is an inevitability around Max now. Even today he was on medium tyres but somehow can get them to last as long as (or longer than) the hards. What's the earliest the championship has been decided by?

Captain_Crash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120651354#Comment_120651354

The earliest? Bahrain, 5th March 2023 😉

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120651354#Comment_120651354

Aston thought the rain wasn’t going to be as heavy or spread over all the track. I think Ferrari did the same? Can’t remember.

Captain_Crash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120651460#Comment_120651460

In a strange way, it was the right call at the time! Didn’t Apline pit Ocon just a lap before for Mids too?? Just 45 seconds later it wasn’t the case anymore! Cost him nothing tho, had he pitted for inters I still think Max would have got the overcut done

This is it

Just watched the highlights on Ch4. Interesting last 20 or so laps but never again will I listen to Alex Jacques (I think he's the lead commentator?)... I'd rather not watch at all.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120650514#Comment_120650514

Wouldn’t surprise me if some folks still give out and call it a boring race.

Brilliant qualifying yesterday

It was a boring race and a boring quali on Saturday.

Nothing much happened up front. I have not even finished watching the highlights yet and I have a fair idea that Max will finish first ALONSO in 2nd and Ocon in 3rd and I have not watched any sports news today or listened to any radio or seen anything about it on the net.

Maybe I just do not care as much this weekend because I have a cold or a flu. Have felt better so ye I watched it but it was not great.

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120651354#Comment_120651354

https://www.youtube.com/live/SDWRNsx0O3Y?feature=share

Time stamp 29:20

PsychoPete

Lol Alonso

2011

Another master class from Max.

A great drive from Alonso and Ocon too. I would love to have seen Alonso win this. He may yet win a race this year.

Schorpio

Managed to see the race on replay last night - so a but late to the party on this.

Alonso's pitstop was bonkers for me. At the start of the race the strategy seemed to be twofold -

• Get max off the line and keep him behind, or
• Keep the hard tyres on as long as possible, hope Max has to change his tyres, and the rain gives you a free pitstop.

Now, fair enough, Max did a monster stint on the mediums. AM probably didn't see that coming. But anyone could have seen that the new Mediums were the wrong call. The rain was falling at that stage.

Max's inlap was really slow. Had Alonso put on the inters, he would have had the pace in theory to have been ahead of Max (but we'll never really know because he may have had traffic on slicks to contend with).

P2 is obviously a great result - one AM would have taken in a heartbeat at the start of the weekend. But surely it's hard for their strategy department not to see it as a win lost rather than P2 gained.

If Ferrari did it, we would be absolutely crucifying them over it.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120653009#Comment_120653009

If Ferrari did it, we would be absolutely crucifying them over it.

Yes it was a crazy strategy and one that surely lost Alonso the win.

The difference between Ferrari and Aston Martin is that Ferrari have been around longer and are the bigger team with more resources yet they continually mess it up. It is easy to say Aston Martin should have done this or that in hindsight but in the heat of the race its a lot different. I am sure they will learn from it unlike Ferrari and will not mess up the next time a great opportunity like that comes along. Singapore maybe?

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120654002#Comment_120654002

Even Alonso said had they pitted for inters, it wouldn't have been enough. It wasn't a great call in hindsight and yes, the comparisons to Ferrari are there. However, it was a net neutral decision anyway, he was never going to beat Max unfortunately.