Thursday, May 23, 2013

Red Bull concerns with single-lap pace


The Champions Red Bull racing not capable to beat Mercedes pace in Thursday free practices in Monaco Grand Prix, following the practice session Red Bull duo admits that they are struggled with single-lap pace.

In the morning session Mark Webber set seventh fastest with soft-compound and in evening session he took fifth fastest with super-soft.

The Australian, who win the Monaco Grand Prix two times, and he is not concerned about the long-run pace.

"If we could, we would have done it today, 1m14.7s is not hanging around but let's see how things go.” Webber said.

"We were not really in the window here last year up until my last lap in Q3, so we need to rediscover that if I can and be towards the front - you need to be there here. You will never come to Monte Carlo and have the perfect day or perfect set-up," The Australian added.

Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel struggled with KERS problem during the second practice, also the German admits that his RB9 showed very poor performance with super-soft.

"Unfortunately we had a big change and we lost quite a lot of time in the afternoon," Vettel said.

"Not completely ideal but that is Friday – or in this case, Thursday. We would like to be a little bit more competitive in low-fuel configuration so we need to try and find some lap time there.

"My run on super-soft was very poor, so we need to understand why. I wasn't able to improve which you should be quite easily. After that I did a long run on super-soft and it seemed quite OK."



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Hamilton: Single lap pace is good, still trying to improve race pace


Lewis Hamilton says that single-lap pace is good Mercedes, but still they are concerned about long run pace. Last two races at Bahrain and Spain Mercedes safely took Pole position but they are dropped down in the main race due to heavy rear tyre degradation.

Last two grand prix Pole sitter Nico Rosberg set top fastest lap-time for Thursday practice beside with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton took second quickest. Some news sources states that Mercedes not fixed rear tyre degradation issues.

"Some of the others are looking pretty quick, but we have good pace ourselves. We have been trying to improve our long run pace.” Hamilton told Sky Sports News

"I had a fairly decent long run so we'll have to wait and see. I had a bit of graining but otherwise it didn't look bad. I've got a bit of work to do this evening, then I can chill tomorrow and hit it hard on Saturday.

"We obviously have good pace and Nico is very quick this weekend, so it is looking good."




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Rosberg still top quickest in Monaco GP second practice


Mercedes duo showed aggressive performance in Monaco Thursday practice, morning pace-setter Nico Rosberg remain top fastest lap-time ahead of his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

The German took fastest lap-time less than half an hour into the session and his time stays on top in time-sheet, its unbeaten for the rest of the session.

After one hour into the session Lewis Hamilton set second fastest with Super-soft compound. The Ferrari duo Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa set third and fourth fastest respectively.

Double-time Monaco GP winner Mark Webber set fifth fastest for Red Bull ahead of Lotus duo Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean. The Lotus speedy Grosjean made the first crash in this Monaco weekend, the French man miss the breaking point, following skid into the Sainte Devote barriers at end of the start/finish strait.

McLaren’s Jenson Button set eighth fastest ahead of reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel. Force India’s Paul di Resta completed the top in the evening practice time sheet.



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Second practice results - 2013 Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix


#DriverTeamTimeGapLaps
1Nico RosbergMercedes1:14.75946
2Lewis HamiltonMercedes1:15.0770.31851
3Fernando AlonsoFerrari1:15.1960.43738
4Felipe MassaFerrari1:15.2780.51939
5Mark WebberRed Bull1:15.4040.64542
6Kimi RaikkonenLotus1:15.5110.75239
7Romain GrosjeanLotus1:15.7180.95910
8Jenson ButtonMcLaren1:15.9591.20040
9Sebastian VettelRed Bull1:16.0141.25533
10Paul di RestaForce India1:16.0461.28743
11Adrian SutilForce India1:16.3491.59044
12Sergio PerezMcLaren1:16.4341.67541
13Nico HulkenbergSauber1:16.8232.06443
14Pastor MaldonadoWilliams1:16.8572.09841
15Esteban GutierrezSauber1:16.9352.17645
16Daniel RicciardoToro Rosso1:17.1452.38638
17Jean-Eric VergneToro Rosso1:17.1842.42543
18Valtteri BottasWilliams1:17.2642.50547
19Jules BianchiMarussia1:17.8923.13341
20Charles PicCaterham1:18.2123.45344
21Max ChiltonMarussia1:18.7844.02541
22Giedo van der GardeCaterham1:19.0314.27231





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2013 Monaco Grand Prix Thursday practice in Pictures


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