2022 Monaco Grand Prix - Race Thread

[paolo lalli]

Ferrari could not organise a drunk festival in a pub no excuses useless, they are failing Charles and the titles with it lost for words pathetic.

[nani_s23]

4 wins in a row for RB. I come to conclusion, at this rate they can win championship easily.

[MSC Fan]

There are still 14 races to go. Just 9 points away from the top spot. Everything to play for, we need to fix this issue..but we have the car.

Well, I bloody well hope so. So far, this season has been reminiscent of 2017 and I don't like where this is going.

[jgonzalesm6]

There are still 14 races to go. Just 9 points away from the top spot. Everything to play for, we need to fix this issue..but we have the car.

15 races to go....there's 22 in the season. Monaco was race #7.

[RossTheBoss]

Ferrari race engineers are horrible, when Sainz was calling for slicks they denied his call & kept one more lap out. Which costed both drivers. Sainz & Leclerc. I don’t know how championships can be won if we are like this.

They can't.

When you have a car with a straight line speed deficit flaw in the design, Monaco is a track you don't let slip through your hands like the team did today.

Absolutely unacceptable. Should've been an easy win, and the team choked under the pressure. Ferrari are proving they are still the same team they were when they couldn't handle the pressure of battling Mercedes for the championship, and got behind in development and had poor strategy.

[Aziz]

There are still 14 races to go. Just 9 points away from the top spot. Everything to play for, we need to fix this issue..but we have the car.

Ma man we had 40 point lead just a month ago, imploding as usual

[aquaria]

Just saw that uncensored radio of Charles during the pit.... "what the f..k are you doing?!"...

This really makes you understand more the psychological effects that these pit-wall decisions had on Seb during his years with us. I must admit that I've put a majority of the blame on him, but now it grows on me how these things can take such a mental toll on a driver. It must be frustrating as hell having to deal with both the driving and worrying that your own team will likely screw you up.

[hakanabi]

There are still 14 races to go. Just 9 points away from the top spot. Everything to play for, we need to fix this issue..but we have the car.

With that pitwall, nothing is possible

[pesquisa_2004]

Well, I bloody well hope so. So far, this season has been reminiscent of 2017 and I don't like where this is going.

They don’t have that winning mindset anymore, unfortunately

[vecchiasignora]

Well, I bloody well hope so. So far, this season has been reminiscent of 2017 and I don't like where this is going.

But i dont feel like in 2017 we had the fastest car, this year i do.

[gmpe23]

The same mistakes, it was something who i was affraid, and what is doing fia with yellow line for Verstapen?

[MSC Fan]

Just saw that uncensored radio of Charles during the pit.... "what the are you doing?!"...

This really makes you understand more the psychological effects that these pit-wall decisions had on Seb during his years with us. I must admit that I've put a majority of the blame on him, but now it grows on me how these things can take such a mental toll on a driver. It must be frustrating as hell having to deal with both the driving and worrying that your own team will likely screw you up.

It was infinitely worse in Arrivabene's time but yeah, you're right. He got beat fair and square by Leclerc but the treatment he got from the fans (even I've been guilty of this in the past) is totally unfair.

[samboozik]

There are still 14 races to go. Just 9 points away from the top spot. Everything to play for, we need to fix this issue..but we have the car.

And how do you fix Stupid?

[tifosi1993]

Mattia will say: Season is still long.

It’s pretty simple, Carlos on radio was saying we need to go for Slicks 2Laps before his pit stop. By that time RB did pit inters.

When Perez did pit for inters, they should have called Leclerc into the pits for dry tyres. Bloody stupid strategy by team.

I've been dreading about our pitwall since Bahrain. Screw up after screw up, how can those clowns still keep their jobs?

Throw some money and hire some clever strategists from Red Bull. If they don't want to move in to Italy then fine, give them remote platform so that they can do their work.

[jgonzalesm6]

And how do you fix Stupid?

[Red is Best]

Boggles my mind that they still pitted Carlos for inters when asked for slicks two laps earlier. Amateurs.

[gmpe23]

And how do you fix Stupid?

+1

[nani_s23]

Just saw that uncensored radio of Charles during the pit.... "what the f..k are you doing?!"...

This really makes you understand more the psychological effects that these pit-wall decisions had on Seb during his years with us. I must admit that I've put a majority of the blame on him, but now it grows on me how these things can take such a mental toll on a driver. It must be frustrating as hell having to deal with both the driving and worrying that your own team will likely screw you up.

Most of the cases, Vettel used to make his own call. Where few turned out good for him.

[nani_s23]

Just saw that uncensored radio of Charles during the pit.... "what the f..k are you doing?!"...

This really makes you understand more the psychological effects that these pit-wall decisions had on Seb during his years with us. I must admit that I've put a majority of the blame on him, but now it grows on me how these things can take such a mental toll on a driver. It must be frustrating as hell having to deal with both the driving and worrying that your own team will likely screw you up.

Most of the cases, Vettel used to make his own call. Where few turned out good for him.

[MSC Fan]

But i dont feel like in 2017 we had the fastest car, this year i do.

Apart from Bahrain, Australia, Spain and Monaco, we never had the clear fastest car whereas, the RedBulls were appreciably superior in Jeddah, Imola and Miami. Spain was an in "if" factor with Leclerc destroying the field right up until the engine problem but the RedBulls were superior than Sainz.

[jgonzalesm6]

Leclerc doesn't deserve Ferrari..........and Ferrari doesn't deserve Leclerc.

Leclerc is better than Ferrari as opposed to Ferrari being better than Leclerc.

I wonder if these mishaps will start to eat away at Leclerc's frustration when these blunders start to mount over and over again.

[RossTheBoss]

Just saw that uncensored radio of Charles during the pit.... "what the f..k are you doing?!"...

This really makes you understand more the psychological effects that these pit-wall decisions had on Seb during his years with us. I must admit that I've put a majority of the blame on him, but now it grows on me how these things can take such a mental toll on a driver. It must be frustrating as hell having to deal with both the driving and worrying that your own team will likely screw you up.

People forget that while Vettel did wear clown shoes, he was under enormous pressure to totally carry a car that was underpowered compared to Mercedes, and a pitwall that screwed him constantly. He tried to make it up with overdriving.

[faloupas]

There is no point in having the fastest car if you cant win races.
Mclaren had the fastest car in 2005,and Red Bull in the second half of 2009.Renault and Brawn won that championships...because they won the races and took all the important points.
We gave Charles a good car, especially a good qualifying car...and he proves despite his mistakes that he can do the job.
The team cant do the job.
If things wont turn around in the next 2-3 races, championship is already lost.

[tifosi1993]

I can tolerate reliability issues, mistakes from the pit crew and the drivers. But I can't tolerate giving away an easy 1-2 in a track where overtaking is realistically impossible.

Not gonna lie, today's result is making my blood boil.

[aquaria]

Most of the cases, Vettel used to make his own call. Where few turned out good for him.

Charles will start doing that soon as well I assume. Since he obviously can't rely on his own team to make decisions that will benefit him instead of his opponents.

[stasera]

it was big disaster. I feel so sorry for Charles. poor him

[MSC Fan]

Leclerc doesn't deserve Ferrari..........and Ferrari doesn't deserve Leclerc.

Leclerc is better than Ferrari as opposed to Ferrari being better than Leclerc.

I wonder if these mishaps will start to eat away at Leclerc's frustration when these blunders start to mount over and over again.

Where would he even go? 90% of Mercedes staff that were responsible for their successes are in RedBull while McLaren is just as big as a mess if not slightly bigger than Ferrari. There's no way RedBull would offer him a seat. Ferrari will be his only choice and likewise Ferrari cannot fetch a better driver than Leclerc.

[samboozik]

I'm still baffled, how a company who has engineers who worked their asses to deliver a championship winning car and has a mega talented driver in Charles Leclerc, keeps these clowns on the pitwall? Does the pitwall crew have something on Binotto or Mr. Elkann?

[nani_s23]

Next two tracks are RB favoured. If we don’t counter RB at those tracks, I don’t have any hope going into the summer break where ferrari can strike back.

[jgonzalesm6]

Where would he even go? 90% of Mercedes staff that were responsible for their successes are in RedBull while McLaren is just as big as a mess if not slightly bigger than Ferrari. There's no way RedBull would offer him a seat. Ferrari will be his only choice and likewise Ferrari cannot fetch a better driver than Leclerc.

If the opportunity opened up if not know but maybe later, Leclerc would jump ship.......I know I would IF these pitwall blunders kept mounting.