FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2011 (Monte Carlo)

What an exciting Monaco race! It's been a while since a Monaco race could be described as exciting, but this certainly was one of it. Perhaps the new 2011 race regulations have some part in this & there were some very good racing which, once again, not something you'll expect in Monaco.

Nevertheless, all the good racing was effectively made null & void towards the end of the race when it was red flagged due to the scary visit to the tire walls by Petrov. Fortunately he was ok but the race was effectively over when the cars were all reset at the grid based on the current race positions, and making it worst, according to the regulations, there are actually allowed to work on the cars & change tires!!!

By allowing this, all cars were effectively 'new' & any chance of overtaking would certainly have been nullified. In any case, SV deserves the win for essentially holding off the challenge from the charging FA in the tight streets of Monaco. JB also did a very good job of staying near the top despite losing a position from qualifying. And what is going on in LH's head??!! As much as I do admire his skills, he seems be behaving like a street racer (which perhaps may not be inappropriate given that this is a street race!) bumping into both F.Massa and Pastor Maldonado earning a drive-thru for the first one and a 20second penalty for the 2nd as the race was coming to an end. He does appear to be more desperate and aggressive, although I suppose this is expected of any racer to some degree.

Anyway, here are the results for the race:

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	78	Winner	1	25
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	78	+1.1 secs	4	18
3	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	78	+2.3 secs	2	15
4	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	78	+23.1 secs	3	12
5	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	78	+26.9 secs	12	10
6	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	78	+27.2 secs	9	8
7	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	77	+1 Lap	14	6
8	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	77	+1 Lap	15	4
9	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	77	+1 Lap	11	2
10	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	77	+1 Lap	16	1
11	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	76	+2 Lap	7
12	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	76	+2 Lap	13
13	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	76	+2 Lap	18
14	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	76	+2 Lap	17
15	25	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	75	+3 Lap	21
16	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	75	+3 Lap	23
17	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	74	+4 Lap	22
18	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	73	+5 Lap	8
Ret	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	67	+11 Lap	10
Ret	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	66	+12 Lap	19
Ret	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	32	+46 Laps	6
Ret	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	32	+46 Laps	5
Ret	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	30	+48 Laps	20
DNS	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2011 (Monte Carlo)
	Choice						Points	Previous	Total	Pos
TC	SV	25	JB	15	MW	12	52	255	307	1
DF	SV	25	FA	18	MS	0	43	261	304	2
C&AL	SV	25	JB	15	LH	8	48	248	296	3
NF	SV	25	JB	15	FA	18	58	238	296	4
R&SW	SV	25	JB	15	FA	18	58	223	281	5
VF	SV	25	MW	12	FA	18	55	221	276	6
EDS	SV	25	JB	15	MW	12	52	219	271	7
CCK	SV	25	JB	15	FA	18	58	209	267	8