2012 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix

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Oops, bad lap for Williams in FP3...

Maldonado has cut the inside of the exit of Casino and then hit the armco on the other side of the track, losing his left rear wheel and red flagging the session in the process. It then looked like Senna hit Perez on the way back to the pits...
 
I'm surprised by Massa. Yes it's a practice session and he was using super softs, but there was a noticeable improvement in his pace by him.
 
Touring Mars
Oops, bad lap for Williams in FP3...

Maldonado has cut the inside of the exit of Casino and then hit the armco on the other side of the track, losing his left rear wheel and red flagging the session in the process. It then looked like Senna hit Perez on the way back to the pits...
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That was Maldonado aswell.
 
Liquid
How so?
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Di Resta hurt his car, Pastor hurt his car, several drivers cut corners, Perez almost ran into the back of Hulk due to being too slow. that's just from the feed I was watching.

XRFalcon
I'm surprised by Massa. Yes it's a practice session and he was using super softs, but there was a noticeable improvement in his pace by him.
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FP3 Usually tells a nice story to what we can expect come Quali. The other two practices I'd throw out if you were trying to gauge where this might go. Yet I still think a few drivers are just keeping quite right now.
 
I now hate the guy. Made my mind up. Watch him come up with some 🤬 excuse like he did last year.
 
Qualifying looks to be great, Massa to be the shock. 👍
 
So this is how I see it as of now. Ten drivers are in the real fight for this, Both Lewis and Button, both Kimi and Grosjean, both Vettel and Webber(more or less), both Fernando and Massa (shock of the season), Nico and Perez.

The way I see it though is Ferrari and Lotus are better long run cars as of now, and that will hurt Nico who seems to be quicker in the short. RBR are the dark horse of the race and have really kept quiet. McLaren have kept quiet more so Lewis than Button but FP2 doesn't really tell us much.

Perez seems to be a bit impatient in traffic which worries me, even though I will say people should attempt to move, but it isn't always so easy. This is Monaco after all.

I see McLaren at top and RBR vs Ferrari vs Lotus for the rest.
 
Liquid
Good question. I am indeed going to miss the race... BBC Red Button highlights for me it is then.
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Just as well it's on BBC - I also have Sky Go, but it's 'currently unavailable' :irked:
 
One word: tires.

If their management is the decider elsewhere, here it will be even more. No DRS and top speed differences, hard to overtake, drivers being stuck behind each other... Got to start well, pit late, save tires to do fast laps when you get a clear track ahead.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
I don't think Pastor did it on purpose, but more so just tried to go around him too quickly and misjudged it.
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That's my assessment of the incident as well - but I've already heard a lot of people demanding that Maldonado be banned for it, because they seem to think it was deliberate. When Maldoando hit Hamilton at Spa last year, it was obviously intentional. But the stewards clearly thought that he was retaliating against Hamilton for pushing him off the dry line and costing him a faster lap time. I can think of no other explanation for them reprimanding Hamilton and giving Maldonado a light sentence. If that is indeed the case - and this is the important part (so if you're just quoting me and looking to go three rounds over what happened at Spa, please stop seeing red and read on) - then we can extrapolate that Maldonado's behaviour has an antecedant. He hit Hamilton because he thought Hamilton cost him grid position. Therefore, if he were to repeat that behavior and hit someone else deliberately, then he would need an event to set him off. Having watched the video of the incident several times, I can see nothing from Perez that would provoke Maldonado. He is well and truly off the racing line, and is travelling considerably slower. He didn't block or impede Maldonado in any way.

I'm guessing that Maldonado encountered Perez in such a way that he couldn't actually see the apex at Portier because the Sauber was in his field of vision. He had to make an educated guess, at where to turn in, and called it too early.
 
Maldonado couldn't stay away from the armco outside the track,
a whole car in it is even harder to miss :D

He didn't do it on purpose though, and no penalizing should come from it.
 
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