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Times
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:18.750 49 laps
2 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso 1:18.899 0.149 42 laps
3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1:19.086 0.336 27 laps
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:19.134 0.384 31 laps
5 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso 1:19.245 0.495 40 laps
6 Pastor Maldonado Lotus 1:19.454 0.704 35 laps
7 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull 1:19.520 0.770 33 laps
8 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1:19.679 0.929 31 laps
9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:19.762 1.012 47 laps
10 Felipe Massa Williams 1:19.766 1.016 32 laps
11 Fernando Alonso McLaren 1:19.791 1.041 28 laps
12 Jenson Button McLaren 1:20.202 1.452 15 laps
13 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1:20.274 1.524 34 laps
14 Sergio Perez Force India 1:20.619 1.869 35 laps
15 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1:20.784 2.034 34 laps
16 Felipe Nasr Sauber 1:20.857 2.107 24 laps
17 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1:20.917 2.167 36 laps
18 Marcus Ericsson Sauber 1:21.219 2.469 25 laps
19 Will Stevens Manor 1:23.234 4.484 28 laps
20 Roberto Merhi Manor 1:23.404 4.654 31 laps

FP2

Times
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:17.192 13 laps
2 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:17.932 0.740 16 laps
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:18.295 1.103 15 laps
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1:18.543 1.351 16 laps
5 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull 1:18.548 1.356 17 laps
6 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso 1:18.659 1.467 15 laps
7 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso 1:18.782 1.590 13 laps
8 Fernando Alonso McLaren 1:18.906 1.714 19 laps
9 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1:19.151 1.959 13 laps
10 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1:19.266 2.074 13 laps
11 Sergio Perez Force India 1:19.300 2.108 14 laps
12 Felipe Massa Williams 1:19.560 2.368 16 laps
13 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1:19.566 2.374 15 laps
14 Pastor Maldonado Lotus 1:19.577 2.385 13 laps
15 Jenson Button McLaren 1:19.606 2.414 15 laps
16 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1:19.639 2.447 14 laps
17 Felipe Nasr Sauber 1:20.263 3.071 11 laps
18 Roberto Merhi Manor 1:22.017 4.825 10 laps
19 Will Stevens Manor 1:22.943 5.751 14 laps
20 Marcus Ericsson Sauber No time 0 laps

[CigarGuy]

We can talk Q. I've seen it....

[darwin dali]

Bummer for VB

[CigarGuy]

Bummer for VB

Surprising, eh? My teams(Lotus, McLaren) continue to suck.
Romain with a 5 spot penalty. Yea.

[sagi58]

 wrote:">Full free practice results (3) for round six of the 2015 Formula 1 World Championship (F1), the Monaco Grand Prix

1. Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 16.143s
2. Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 16.361s
3. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 16.705s
4. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull-Renault 1m 17.120s
5. Carlos Sainz Jr ESP Toro Rosso-Renault 1m 17.256s
6. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 17.401s
7. Daniil Kvyat RUS Red Bull-Renault 1m 17.471s
8. Jenson Button GBR McLaren-Honda 1m 17.767s
9. Max Verstappen NED Toro Rosso-Renault 1m 17.788s
10. Romain Grosjean FRA Lotus-Mercedes 1m 17.806s
11. Sergio Perez MEX Force India-Mercedes 1m 17.832s
12. Pastor Maldonado VEN Lotus-Mercedes 1m 17.956s
13. Nico Hulkenberg GER Force India-Mercedes 1m 18.102s
14. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren-Honda 1m 18.197s
15. Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams-Mercedes 1m 18.212s
16. Felipe Massa BRZ Williams-Mercedes 1m 18.242s
17. Felipe Nasr BRZ Sauber-Ferrari 1m 18.767s
18. Marcus Ericsson SWE Sauber-Ferrari 1m 19.269s
19. Will Stevens GBR Manor Marussia-Ferrari 1m 21.093s
20. Roberto Merhi ESP Manor Marussia-Ferrari 1m 22.225s

all times unofficial

[sagi58]

 wrote:">Full qualifying results for the sixth round of the 2015 Formula 1 World Championship (F1), the Monaco Grand Prix

1. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 15.098s
2. Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 15.440s
3. Sebastian Vettel GER Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 15.849s
4. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull-Renault 1m 16.041s
5. Daniil Kvyat RUS Red Bull-Renault 1m 16.182s
6. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 16.427s
7. Sergio Perez MEX Force India-Mercedes 1m 16.808s
8. Carlos Sainz Jr ESP Toro Rosso-Renault 1m 16.931s**
9. Pastor Maldonado VEN Lotus-Mercedes 1m 16.946s
10. Max Verstappen NED Toro Rosso-Renault 1m 16.957s

11. Romain Grosjean FRA Lotus-Mercedes 1m 17.007s*
12. Jenson Button GBR McLaren-Honda 1m 17.093s
13. Nico Hulkenberg GER Force India-Mercedes 1m 17.193s
14. Felipe Massa BRZ Williams-Mercedes 1m 17.278s
15. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren-Honda 1m 26.632s

16. Felipe Nasr BRZ Sauber-Ferrari 1m 18.101s
17. Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams-Mercedes 1m 18.434s
18. Marcus Ericsson SWE Sauber-Ferrari 1m 18.513s
19. Will Stevens GBR Manor Marussia-Ferrari 1m 20.655s
20. Roberto Merhi ESP Manor Marussia-Ferrari 1m 20.904s

<>* denotes driver due to take five-place grid penalty for gearbox change
** denotes driver to start from pit-lane due to missing weighbridge check in qualifying

all times unofficial

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With Grosjean and now Sainz penalties it means that a McLaren will be in the top ten just as Alonso promised.

Except it is Button!

[darwin dali]

ESPNF1:
Williams head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley has offered some insight into his team's poor qualifying performance in Monaco.

Williams qualified 14th and 17th - although both drivers will move forward on the grid due to penalties further up - which is by far its worst performance of the year. Smedley said Williams was expecting more from the FW37 at Monaco.

"In low-speed corners we know that we have a deficit that we are working on. Coming here we didn't think it was going to be our best circuit, but we thought it would be better than it has been. There is a simple fact that we are not just generating enough grip in the tyres. We put the tyres almost certainly in the right working range in terms of temperatures, and we have been through various different temperature ranges to see if it's brought us any more performance, but it hasn't really changed anything.

"Whether or not we are generating enough indentation in the tyre is something we are going to have to go away and understand. Tomorrow when we put more fuel in it might tell us something, but it was a similar situation we had here last year and it's not an easy problem to solve. The good news is that it's one race in 19."

The team struggled at Monaco last year and Smedley said it had tried everything this year to get the tyres working but to no avail.

"We know we've got understeer and we've been working to get rid of the understeer, but when you are not generating actual mechanical grip from the tyres then it masks everything - you are putting a tiny sticking plaster on it," he said. "With the amount of grip that we have got, we have got the cars reasonably well balanced and they [the drivers] are not complaining of anything major. It's not in the car set-up per se, it's more in the way we are generating the mechanical grip in the tyre.

"The situation is exaggerated from the point of view that you have very low circuit roughness here, no high-speed corners, no straights within which you have load on the car, so it's a bit of a vicious circle. You have certain car characteristics, and to get out of it [what we need] with the tools that we have available here at the track is quite difficult.

"I've spoken in the past that we need to get on top of the tyre management here in the track when the tools are available and we haven't explored them enough, but I'm quite happy on this occasion to say we have done a reasonable amount of due diligence and there is nothing glaring there to make me sit at the end of qualifying saying, 'We should have done this, we didn't explore that or we didn't consider this'. In fact, in terms of what you can actually do here to generate grip, we've done a reasonable amount."
WTF is he saying here?? Either you did or you didn't!

[sagi58]

ESPNF1:
..."I've spoken in the past that we need to get on top of the tyre management here in the track when the tools are available and we haven't explored them enough, but I'm quite happy on this occasion to say we have done a reasonable amount of due diligence and there is nothing glaring there to make me sit at the end of qualifying saying, 'We should have done this, we didn't explore that or we didn't consider this'. In fact, in terms of what you can actually do here to generate grip, we've done a reasonable amount."
WTF is he saying here?? Either you did or you didn't!

My guess is that he's not sure himself, as he seems to say they didn't before; but,
this time they did!! Yet, it didn't make a difference, so maybe they didn't have to!

[oaba09]

That was a strange decision to pit lewis...

[Nin-Chin]

Thank you very much Mercedes. Doesn't take much to know track position is king here.

[stonemonkey]

What was that!

Lol @ lewis crashing into the number 3 marker, sums up his thoughts on that.

[gdh]

The conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one. Oh well an extremely boring race with a bizarre ending, with defeat ripped from the jaws of victory. Congrats to Nico for 3 in a row. Just goes to show that free air reigns at Monaco.

[Bladesman]

Lewis shafted by his team again theres a shock.

Rosberg gets another freebie to add to his collection. Mercedes should just go round to Lewis's house and give Rosberg last years World title while their at it.

Bunch of