Grand Prix De Monaco 2017 - Race

**Liscia** · 28th May 2017, 17:02

Thanks to the WHOLE team and BOTH drivers for delivering in today's race! All post-race questions are now moot as how it unfolded is there for all to see and draw their own conclusions. Furthermore, many races still need to be won before season-end and many more opportunities will present for all to shine ergo let's try to enjoy this win without doubts and recriminations or we'll be playing into our adversaries hands. FORZA FERRARI!!! FORZA VETTEL & RAIKKONEN!!!
I am a very happy man today and hope you all are as ecstatic now that our team is truly back!

**wisepie** · 28th May 2017, 17:33

Waited so long for this 1-2 and I wouldn't have minded if Kimi had won but Seb was the quicker driver overall and we need those extra points. Sky commentators and the constant talk of team orders/No2 driver was extremely irritating, the team did what was best at the time and deserve all credit for that. Race was a bit processional but what a result!

**Rob** · 28th May 2017, 17:38

had go out all day. Family stuff. Now watching the race i recorded earlier.

**Rob** · 28th May 2017, 17:41

Originally Posted by wisepie

Waited so long for this 1-2 and I wouldn't have minded if Kimi had won but Seb was the quicker driver overall and we need those extra points. Sky commentators and the constant talk of team orders/No2 driver was extremely irritating, the team did what was best at the time and deserve all credit for that. Race was a bit processional but what a result!

ts that football culture they bring to F1. Our team woudl never do that but the other teams are dirty and play dirty tricks cheats team orders blah blah blah. Merc race free and clean. Utter rubbish, they dont dare say the true hard fact that Merc wll and have used Bottas to help Lewis and will do again, Bottas #2.

**Rob** · 28th May 2017, 17:47

nice touch by Fernendo for JB, brilliant.

**nani_s23** · 28th May 2017, 18:05

Hamster started his mind games by saying Ferrari started to favour vet for WDC.
He also claims till now there isn't such scenario in mercs.

Has he lost his brain. Don't he remember Spain, Bahrain, russia etc where he was given free pass from bottas.

**Ferrarichamp** · 28th May 2017, 18:08

Originally Posted by nani_s23

Hamster started his mind games by saying Ferrari started to favour vet for WDC.
He also claims till now there isn't such scenario in mercs.

Has he lost his brain. Don't he remember Spain, Bahrain, russia etc where he was given free pass from bottas.

don't worry about it, the main thing is he isn't fooling anyone, except maybe Crofty

**Ed Harley** · 28th May 2017, 18:08

Of course they have started to favour Seb, why wouldn't they? It's been over for Kimi for a while now.

**Not my team** · 28th May 2017, 18:12

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

**Greig** · 28th May 2017, 18:22

Originally Posted by Not my team

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

Your crying more than Seb

Kimi was not fast enough to stop Vettel get over it.

**Greig** · 28th May 2017, 18:23

Originally Posted by nani_s23

Hamster started his mind games by saying Ferrari started to favour vet for WDC.
He also claims till now there isn't such scenario in mercs.

Has he lost his brain. Don't he remember Spain, Bahrain, russia etc where he was given free pass from bottas.

Not much of a mind game when it's clear Ferrari favours the faster driver and the one that is most likely to win the title. Just like his team does lol

**darkchild** · 28th May 2017, 18:25

Originally Posted by Not my team

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

Of course its not your team. Kimi fans don't care about Ferrari, they care about Kimi. Since you are from Netherlands, what do you say about Max getting shafted the same way even though, in comparison to Vet-Kimi, he was actually faster then driver behind him?

**ss-89** · 28th May 2017, 18:27

Originally Posted by Not my team

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

Right...of course you're a ferrari fan. No different to Rosberg moving over for Hamilton, bottas moving over for hamilton or in years gone past barichello for Schumi etc.

Vettel was simply faster on the day and when you have Hamilton as the other title challenger, you need to maximise the opportunities to increase the gap when they present themselves. It's very likely we will take engine penalties later this year and those 7 extra points may prove to be crucial in the WDC fight. If Kimi was in the title fight he wouldn't have been in this situation but one good weekend doesn't make up for a string of poor performances in the first 5 races. As a team we have to back the right horse and I think the team made the right call today.

**Fiondella** · 28th May 2017, 18:27

Originally Posted by Not my team

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

Ha ha that's right Kimi did his best and wasn't good enough. Great result for the team. What is your team not my team?

**nani_s23** · 28th May 2017, 18:30

Originally Posted by Greig

Not much of a mind game when it's clear Ferrari favours the faster driver and the one that is most likely to win the title. Just like his team does lol

I don't mind him saying Ferrari favours seb. But what's extra he's saying is his team doesn't do such things. They treat both their drivers equally. This is really hilarious statement. How many times bottas was told to move aways this season already ??

This guy is 3 time champion and talking all crap when he doesn't win or punched up by his team mate.
His quali record speaks this year with his team mate 3-3.

I'm sure if bottas is given same treatment as Lewis gets in mercs, he will show Hamilton who really the man is.

**Ed Harley** · 28th May 2017, 18:34

Originally Posted by darkchild

Kimi fans don't care about Ferrari, they care about Kimi.

Thank you so much for your generalization.

**Vettel165** · 28th May 2017, 18:34

Originally Posted by Not my team

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

Ok so we have a Verstappen fan on the Ferrari forum, you probably just register here to write this down. A Ferrari fan that wishes the other team to win the title is not a real ferrari fan. Get out of this forum if you have nothing better to say, then hating Vettel....

**zike** · 28th May 2017, 18:38

Originally Posted by Vettel165

Ok so we have a Verstappen fan on the Ferrari forum, you probably just register here to write this down.

Im just Imagining how I would I react if someone told me Seb would have 25 point lead six races in, after the last rece of 2016

**stefa** · 28th May 2017, 18:38

Originally Posted by Not my team

This was a total dissaster today. Favouring cry cry baby Vettel over his teammate. Have u seen those faces yesterday when Kimi got pole. I should have been the other way around. Today they made it. This is not good for the sport. I now sincerely hope that Hamilton gets WDC. Maybe Kimi should knock out Vettel, like Vettel did last year.

Nice post for 1st post.... You cannot be serious?! Get out of here!!!!

**nani_s23** · 28th May 2017, 18:40

Originally Posted by stefa

Nice post for 1st post.... You cannot be serious?! Get out of here!!!!

mad Max fans r really getting mad about ferrari

**stefa** · 28th May 2017, 18:55

Originally Posted by nani_s23

mad Max fans r really getting mad about ferrari

Don't give a @#%&

**aroutis** · 28th May 2017, 19:03

As far as I am concerned, we got 1-2 in Monaco after 2001; no Mercedes on the podium, everything is perfect.
All the moaning about who was #1 at the end is trash:
Even if Seb was put to a #1 status what is the problem with it?
Unless someone missed it, Mercedes plays a #1/2 policy so we need to do the same if we wish to get the WDC.

Get used to it.

And as far as whatever skysport or other "media" is reporting, I really could not care less. Should Mercedes were in our shoes, they'd be talking bout genius strategy.

Bravo to the team and the drivers, and roll on Canada!

**nani_s23** · 28th May 2017, 19:10

Originally Posted by stefa

Don't give a @#%&

I'm appreciating your reply to his post. I think u miss understood

**erinha** · 28th May 2017, 19:30

How weird some people are... Red Bull used the same strategy in this race, why has no one other than Max himself mentioned dubious strategy from RB? (Which is funny because his first win came under similar conditions. Only, that time around he and Raikkonen were on the winning side, so he wasn't questioning the very similar strategy.) Sometimes it's not clear which strategy is better anyway. Look at Verstappen with Bottas, they thought undercut was the best way, and the other team reacted thinking they'd get undercut.
Even Horner said the same thing. But Sky team (except for Symonds and di Resta) and Hamilton have to stir up trouble apparently...