Both HRT cars were more than 7% slower than the fastest car in the first practice session at Monaco.
Even with the use of super-soft tyres in Q1, they may struggle to make the cut for the race.
Here is all the data from the first practice session in Monaco.
Longest stint comparison
- The soft tyres held up well on a ‘green’ track. Daniel Ricciardo ran a 17-lap stint, setting his fastest time of the session on the 16th
- Longer stints from Jenson Button and Adrian Sutil showed little drop-off in the tyre’s performance
- As usual, no-one ran the softer of the two tyres (in this case, the super-soft) in the first session
https://www.racefans.net/charts/2011drivercolours.csv
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | |
Sebastian Vettel | 87.821 | 91.782 | 83.919 | 76.781 | 93.999 | 82.472 | 76.619 | 142.711 | |||||||||
Mark Webber | |||||||||||||||||
Lewis Hamilton | 80.168 | 78.77 | 84.861 | 78.136 | 87.117 | 80.484 | 89.109 | 84.978 | 77.35 | ||||||||
Jenson Button | 81.368 | 81.206 | 78.268 | 85.152 | 83.436 | 85.619 | 78.2 | 90.519 | 77.534 | 83.58 | 129.561 | ||||||
Fernando Alonso | 83.331 | 77.262 | 96.461 | 77.109 | 93.492 | 89.317 | 76.732 | 131.388 | |||||||||
Felipe Massa | 87.067 | 89.082 | 77.801 | 85.635 | 86.023 | 82.758 | 77.316 | ||||||||||
Michael Schumacher | 83.273 | 79.492 | 88.791 | 78.805 | 90.904 | ||||||||||||
Nico Rosberg | 77.518 | 81.082 | 77.139 | 95.412 | 84.459 | 84.41 | 82.149 | 81.51 | 117.817 | ||||||||
Nick Heidfeld | 82.848 | 90.833 | 87.843 | 81.228 | 96.363 | 80.704 | 83.73 | 80.27 | |||||||||
Vitaly Petrov | 80.718 | 79.229 | 85.92 | 79.36 | 78.733 | ||||||||||||
Rubens Barrichello | 88.185 | 89.812 | 83.404 | 86.881 | 79.442 | 95.3 | 91.546 | 79.395 | 140.274 | ||||||||
Pastor Maldonado | 79.912 | 78.856 | 94.169 | 78.527 | 98.087 | 79.373 | 78.967 | 136.079 | |||||||||
Paul di Resta | 82.801 | 84.203 | 88.6 | 80.394 | 85.147 | ||||||||||||
Adrian Sutil | 83.105 | 82.065 | 81.548 | 81.648 | 82.759 | 81.887 | 82.766 | 90.961 | 82.458 | 81.893 | 83.803 | 82.314 | 81.913 | 135.12 | |||
Kamui Kobayashi | 89.656 | 83.902 | 80.143 | 79.768 | 91.023 | 80.647 | 136.679 | ||||||||||
Sergio Perez | 81.295 | 80.763 | 117.956 | 89.951 | 80.926 | 79.924 | 101.598 | 89.231 | 80.471 | 95.533 | 86.762 | 79.792 | 85.729 | 79.927 | 107.866 | 158.914 | |
Sebastien Buemi | 79.921 | 79.536 | 87.555 | 79.619 | 79.586 | 79.234 | 90.173 | 86.34 | 80.246 | 85.828 | 79.282 | ||||||
Daniel Ricciardo | 83.112 | 81.582 | 83.866 | 80.559 | 80.295 | 83.114 | 80.361 | 84.023 | 80.318 | 86.095 | 89.432 | 82.035 | 83.03 | 80.066 | 86.417 | 79.463 | 153.275 |
Heikki Kovalainen | 81.209 | 80.538 | 90.372 | 82.912 | 89.378 | 91.944 | 80.799 | 80.083 | |||||||||
Jarno Trulli | 83.412 | 82.632 | 81.816 | 88.735 | 86.172 | 82.963 | 83.982 | 81.207 | 87.725 | 133.765 | |||||||
Narain Karthikeyan | 98.718 | 95.367 | 92.26 | 90.435 | 89.49 | 88.772 | 87.755 | 86.52 | 86.043 | 85.594 | |||||||
Vitantonio Liuzzi | 87.641 | 85.93 | 84.255 | 84.047 | 83.963 | 93.494 | 82.84 | ||||||||||
Timo Glock | 83.956 | 83.15 | 82.248 | 87.516 | 81.815 | ||||||||||||
Jerome d’Ambrosio | 90.389 | 89.449 | 86.827 | 91.127 | 85.699 | 84.522 | 84.163 | 99.368 | 83.903 | 88.891 | 83.011 |
Ultimate lap times
An ultimate lap is a driver’s best three sector times combined.
- Vettel’s fastest (actual) lap time would give a 107% time of 1’21.982. Both HRTs are outside this even on their ultimate laps
- Vitantonio Liuzzi has the greatest potential to improve as he crashed during the session
- The super-soft tyre is expected to be one second per lap faster, and on this data they will certainly need it to get into the race. Keep an eye out in FP2 to see how much faster teams are able to go with it
- Not being within 107% of the fastest time in practice is potentially a problem for the team if they are unable to set a time during practice, as they may not be able to make a case to the stewards that they deserve a dispensation
Complete practice times
- Teams often use less or no DRS in first practice which can distort the times. But in Monaco even those who were using it appeared to activate it very little
Speed trap
- There is a much narrower spread of fastest speeds on the slow Monaco track
# | Driver | Car | Engine | Max speed | Gap | |
1 | 14 | Paul di Resta | Force India | Mercedes | 280.8 | |
2 | 15 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | Mercedes | 280.3 | 0.5 |
3 | 7 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | Mercedes | 280 | 0.8 |
4 | 3 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | Mercedes | 279.9 | 0.9 |
5 | 12 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | Cosworth | 279.4 | 1.4 |
6 | 4 | Jenson Button | McLaren | Mercedes | 279.4 | 1.4 |
7 | 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | Renault | 279.1 | 1.7 |
8 | 8 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | Mercedes | 278.8 | 2 |
9 | 11 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams | Cosworth | 277.9 | 2.9 |
10 | 10 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | Renault | 277.8 | 3 |
11 | 19 | Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | Ferrari | 277.4 | 3.4 |
12 | 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | Ferrari | 277.2 | 3.6 |
13 | 9 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault | Renault | 277.1 | 3.7 |
14 | 24 | Timo Glock | Virgin | Cosworth | 276.9 | 3.9 |
15 | 22 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT | Cosworth | 276.5 | 4.3 |
16 | 21 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus | Renault | 276 | 4.8 |
17 | 6 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | Ferrari | 276 | 4.8 |
18 | 16 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | Ferrari | 275.9 | 4.9 |
19 | 18 | Sebastien Buemi | Toro Rosso | Ferrari | 275 | 5.8 |
20 | 20 | Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus | Renault | 274.7 | 6.1 |
21 | 25 | Jerome d’Ambrosio | Virgin | Cosworth | 274.5 | 6.3 |
22 | 23 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT | Cosworth | 273 | 7.8 |
23 | 17 | Sergio Perez | Sauber | Ferrari | 272.7 | 8.1 |
24 | 2 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | Renault | 259.4 | 21.4 |
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ankitpardeshi (@)
26th May 2011, 12:08
is adrian really 19th paul 9th
Bäremans
26th May 2011, 12:21
No, it’s the other way around.
Indicates they are on different programs or Paul is evaluating new parts or so.
This gap between them is not due to driver capabilities.
ankitpardeshi (@)
26th May 2011, 12:10
now corrected
Raunaq Kumaran (@raunaq-kumaran)
26th May 2011, 12:16
the mistake is still there in the Ultimate lap, adrian is supposed to be 9th and paul in 19th
BasCB (@bascb)
26th May 2011, 12:13
Looks like Ferrari are doing fine on the sofst, lets hope for them they can improve a bit on the super soft tyres.
Red Bull will have their customary 0.7-1 second in their pockets with turing on the aggressive mapping and full use of the DRS. McLaren might have something in reserve as well.
Nice to see the comparison of Narain and Tonio. I think it nicely shows the difference between going full on these tyres from the start and giving it a slower few laps at the start.
Certainly they will struggle again in Q1, as they did not even make that limit last year (that was about the time the FIA and teams started talking about reintroducing it).
Dave Starling
26th May 2011, 12:17
If HRT can’t get in the 107% at any stage, am I right in thinking that they can’t protest over the EBDs?
Robyn
26th May 2011, 12:24
They’ve said they’re going to hold off on that for now (Autosport).
Steve in Somerset
26th May 2011, 12:25
They’re not bothering now anyway…
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/91724
Fixy (@)
26th May 2011, 13:39
Aw, sad.
Bleeps_and_Tweaks (@bleeps_and_tweaks)
26th May 2011, 14:41
This might sound a bit cheap, but do you think Mclaren, RBR and Ferrari might have had a word with HRT and said that if they try and protest they’ll all put a set of softs on during Q3 and force HRT out of the 107%???
MVEilenstein (@mveilenstein)
26th May 2011, 16:33
No.
Mike (@mike)
26th May 2011, 12:19
I’m just noticing that Lotus are only half a second off Sauber. Well done Lotus.
I do hope HRT get through.
Fixy (@)
26th May 2011, 13:40
1 – Agree
2 – Agree
ads
26th May 2011, 12:23
to be honest, just this once id rather them not race. They’re just a very slow moving chicane. Normally i like to see them race but if ever there was a race that the teams are gonna be praying for them not to make the cut its this one.
Mike (@mike)
26th May 2011, 13:01
There wasn’t a problem last year.
If I remember right in qually last year the only guy who blocked someone was Massa.
Madman (@madman)
26th May 2011, 12:26
Hi Keith
Is there a chance you could omit the in-lap times of the drivers in your graphs (such as the longest stint comparison above) as it would enable the rest of the data to be seen more clearly as it could be spread out more?
Just a thought to make comparing easier. Great job as always otherwise :)
Dan_the_McLaren_fan (@dan_the_mclaren_fan)
26th May 2011, 12:26
Why do everyone have such a big loss of lap time after their long stint?
Is it because of the degradation of the tyre? Or because of a red flag?
TFLB
26th May 2011, 12:30
In the ultimate laps chart the Force India drivers are the wrong way round.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
26th May 2011, 16:20
Have fixed it, thanks.
Damon
26th May 2011, 14:47
If I was any of those top trams that is exactly what I’d be doing!
damonsmedley (@damonsmedley)
26th May 2011, 17:00
Please HRT; if you’re not going to be challenging for points, at least make the 107% rule. I was so disappointed in Melbourne… :(
box this lap
26th May 2011, 17:16
The 107% rule. A complete waste of logistics if they don’t make it.
Todfod (@todfod)
26th May 2011, 19:56
As a viewer, I think the 107% rule puts HRT into the limelight. Every team needs a goal.. for Ferrari, Mclaren, RBs its the WDC and WCC, other teams all have ambitions of beating their closest competitors and getting in the points, etc.
HRT are in a league of their own right now. Their goal is to make the 107% cut off, and try to get both cars home. Without the 107% rule HRT is aimless and lost, and I enjoy watching them give it their all just to race on Sunday.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
26th May 2011, 20:11
I can see the teams protesting about congestion again if HRT manage to not get into the 107% time for at least a couple of sessions.
Owen
26th May 2011, 22:37
Senna’s pole time in 1990 was 1:21.314, I wonder if HRT can beat that? :-P
wasiF1 (@wasif1)
27th May 2011, 2:20
As pointed out Three GP2 drivers were faster than Narain Karthikeyan,I really don’t want them & Virgin to get there in the race on Sunday even if they are inside 107%.