2012 Monaco Grand Prix grid
2012 Monaco Grand Prix
| Row 1 | 1. Mark Webber 1’14.381 Red Bull |
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| 2. Nico Rosberg 1’14.448 Mercedes |
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| Row 2 | 3. Lewis Hamilton 1’14.583 McLaren |
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| 4. Romain Grosjean 1’14.639 Lotus |
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| Row 3 | 5. Fernando Alonso 1’14.948 Ferrari |
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| 6. Michael Schumacher* 1’14.301 Mercedes |
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| Row 4 | 7. Felipe Massa 1’15.049 Ferrari |
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| 8. Kimi Raikkonen 1’15.199 Lotus |
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| Row 5 | 9. Sebastian Vettel No time Red Bull |
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| 10. Nico Hulkenberg 1’15.421 Force India |
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| Row 6 | 11. Kamui Kobayashi 1’15.508 Sauber |
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| 12. Jenson Button 1’15.536 McLaren |
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| Row 7 | 13. Bruno Senna 1’15.709 Williams |
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| 14. Paul di Resta 1’15.718 Force India |
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| Row 8 | 15. Daniel Ricciardo 1’15.878 Toro Rosso |
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| 16. Jean-Eric Vergne 1’16.885 Toro Rosso |
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| Row 9 | 17. Heikki Kovalainen 1’16.538 Caterham |
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| 18. Vitaly Petrov 1’17.404 Caterham |
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| Row 10 | 19. Timo Glock 1’17.947 Marussia |
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| 20. Pedro de la Rosa 1’18.096 HRT |
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| Row 11 | 21. Charles Pic 1’18.476 Marussia |
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| 22. Narain Karthikeyan 1’19.31 HRT |
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| Row 12 | 23. Sergio Perez** No time Sauber |
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| 24. Pastor Maldonado*** 1’15.245 Williams |
*Five-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Bruno Senna in the Spanish Grand Prix
**Five-place grid penalty for gearbox change
***Ten-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Sergio Perez during practice and five-place grid penalty for gearbox change
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me262 said on 26th May 2012, 14:49
question- why didnt Vettel post a time? Seeing his team mate on pole and how hard it is to overtake in monaco, why wouldnt u wanna post a time?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 26th May 2012, 14:50
It does look like he missed a trick. I’d be very surprised if saving tyres for the race pays as great dividends here as elsewhere. Tyre wear is just too low.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 26th May 2012, 16:42
@keithcollantine Maybe they’re thinking they can save a pit stop? Ambitious admittedly.
Nigel Bates (@nigel1) said on 26th May 2012, 16:46
No missed trick – I believe he’d used all three sets of supers getting to Q3 (one set in Q1 and 2 in Q2).
Stiffado said on 26th May 2012, 15:00
It’s slipping away from Lotus. You have yo seize your chances in F1, they don’t come round again usually.
In Bahrain an easy win was not achieved because Boullier was too concerned with promoting GRO and too slow to realise a win was on the cards.
Currently the team are not able to give RAI what he needs: they should have used the last test opportunity to fix the steering to Kimi’s satisfaction, instead it’s an ongoing prob still..
This weekend GRO might follow ROS and HAM past WEB into ste devote, But ALO may have other ideas about that !!!
Looks like a HAM ALO ROS podium, with RAI fourth.
Eleanore (@leucocrystal) said on 26th May 2012, 15:11
Not surprising, really. Their strategies were generally quite awful last year, at times baffling, and apparently that doesn’t go away overnight.
BBQ2 said on 26th May 2012, 18:42
When I write that Kimi is hard on his cars, his fans will not agree with me (obviously). You wrote the team could have used the test to correct his problems but you forgot kimi refused to attend the test!
His steering problem did not start today, he has always been hard on them during his McLaren years as was confirmed today by Johnny Herbert on Skytv. Who does he think he is???? Arghhhhh!!!
Stiffado said on 26th May 2012, 20:57
johnny herbert was at McLaren with KR? that’s news to me
dkpioe said on 26th May 2012, 15:14
webber and mercedes cars looked really fast today, i think webber will win the race, hes always been good at monaco. mclaren arent looking quick enough for a win, which is surprising considering how well they started the season and looked like the fastest car overall.
John H (@john-h) said on 26th May 2012, 15:29
Top 5 all in different cars. Has this happened this season at all? I’m guessing most probably.
TheJudge (@thejudge) said on 26th May 2012, 15:57
Rosberg and Hamilton will top Webber at the first 3 corners. My guess. AND IF schu can pull off a few good first laps,he could be on the podium.
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 26th May 2012, 16:35
The fastest 9 are covered by less than 1s. Nice!
Schumacher deserved the penalty but it is a shame that his best chance at vindicating his comeback will be most likely quashed. However, like the guys on Sky said, experience pays dividends at Monaco and I’d certainly fancy him more than some of his higher grid placed competitors. Plus, he is known to start well, but well enough to capitalise before the first corner, who knows!?
What’s going on with Button, he’s paling into obscurity this season? Sort it out Jenson!
Ed Marques (@edmarques) said on 26th May 2012, 16:57
I may be very wrong, but i think he’s back to normal. Lewis is a better driver than him.
lynnduffy (@lynnduffy) said on 26th May 2012, 17:39
Am I missing something? I saw the lap record listed as 1:14.439 (MS, F2004). Why is his time from today (or Webber’s, even) being counted as a new lap record? Was there a config change or something?
sumedh said on 26th May 2012, 18:28
Lap records can be set only in a race. The 2004 time has been set during the race.
Qualifying times do not count as lap records.
lynnduffy (@lynnduffy) said on 26th May 2012, 18:44
Oh Duh. /hits self over head with the stupid stick.
It’s just that lap records (or even times approaching them) have seemed so rare these days that I got ahead of myself. Thanks for not laughing at me for asking. :))
Sam (@samb91) said on 26th May 2012, 19:27
Wonder if Hamiton will try and look after his tyres, as Webber and the Mercs might have tyres issues!
manatcna (@manatcna) said on 27th May 2012, 3:33
Maldonado has had an engine change and will start last
manatcna (@manatcna) said on 27th May 2012, 3:34
Sorry, meant a gearbox change