2024 Monaco Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

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.

I am fairly sure this is the worst race I have ever seen. Might as well have called it 80 formation laps. Jesus.
- I think I counted like 5 overtakes that did not involve a crashed car. Ridiculous really. Last week at least there was some hope that one could pull a move. No such hope here
  
  5 is pretty high for Monaco. I'm sure there have been years with zero on track overtakes before.
- First race I've ever heard my mum call "boring"

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?

Leclerc says he'll bring the car home, proceeds to drive directly to his apartment parking garage.

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.

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

Wow overtakes(plural)ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Ah classic, Alpines bonking into each other. Huge lift off the ground.

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.
- They're just gonna do 5 mins of lap 1 replays lol
- Hey, there was a Bottas overtake on Sargeant and now Stroll on Zhou in the tunnel. What an exciting race

Finally a pass on track! Bottas just got ahead of Sargeant.

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!
- I wonder who’ll take the Overtake award if there are no overtakes. The safety car?
  
  I believe bottas. He "overtook" 3 cars when the Haas cars and perez went out

Oh my god now the Alpines! Monaco 70 is quite a mess this far

"Of the four of you, you are the best" - now there's some motivation for you, Piastri.

An overtake? THAT COUNTS FOR THE STATISTICS

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.

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.

First points for Williams, great job Albono.

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.
  
  It says more about the track than it says about Verstappen honestly. You're crazy if you think that Verstappen wouldn't be able to overtake someone with 51 laps of tyre delta if it'd be at all humanly possible.

Yay Red Bull floor pics

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 🤪
  
  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?

Perez out of the GP

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.

Leclerc's engineer kinda made it sound like Sainz was the cause of the red flag.
Leclerc: Is everyone ok?
Engineer: Everyone is fine. Sainz had a puncture.
- Wouldnt be surprised if the engineer didnt know the reason for the red flag yet
  
  Maybe, but then it would've been a bit hasty to say everyone is ok.

Russell taking it super slow with the medium tire. Guess the plan's to take it till the end.

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

Sargeant seems to be dropping like a stone: he has been passed by Botas and Stroll, now Zhou is right in his gearbox...

Name a better love story than Ocon and penalties
- Magnussen and penalties. Surprised he didn't wind up with a race ban after today.

How slow can we drive, and still not be passed. That seems to be the question.

Max is surprising slow after catching upto Russell. I thought he would all over his back

Mercedes you idiot sandwichs

Can't wait for the replay.

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?

This race is just background noise while I do better things.

Will be interesting to see if max can go forward somewhat
- Highly improbable unless there is rain or an appropriately timed safety car.
  
  Well, he already made it up one place, thanks to Sainz's misfortune.

It kinda looks like a racing incident since the track is narrow or it's on both Checo and KMag

Wow Sainz starting from P3 for restart. Huge for him.
- Coolcoolcool a second chance to run into Oscar 🙄
  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.

So many on the mediums? We betting on more safety cars?
- Nah, they're betting on driving slowly, checkmate :D

Since Ocon is out this leaves Stroll to spice things up. Here’s hoping for a classic Stroll overtake that takes several cars out of the race!
- Stroll just had a puncture 😭
  
  Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!
- Almost nailed it!

Standing start

Oh great Sainz can attempt another assassination on Piastri...

Congratulations to Leclerc.

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 I’m not sure, but none of them need to change since they already changed tires on the red flag.
  
  Thanks that helps.

Sainz is taking that gunner role pretty seriously.

Come on Piastri, send it.

This race is looking very good for Ferrari, McLaren need to do something now..

Come on Oscar force Leclerc in the traffic.

2024 Monaco Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️

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