Monaco GP - 20 more points, second in the championship
Monaco, 16 May
Felipe Massa started the sixth round of the world championship from fourth place and that’s where he finished the 78 lap race, which ended behind the Safety Car. Fernando Alonso came home seventh, having been sixth until the last corner, when he was passed by Michael Schumacher in a Safety Car period, so the Spaniard’s sixth place was restored to him. Fernando provided much of the action in a race dominated by Red Bull, who finished first and second courtesy of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Robert Kubica in the Renault completed the podium trio. The result sees Fernando keep third place and Felipe move up one place to sixth in the Drivers’ classification, while the team remains second in the Constructors.’
As the red lights went out, Webber maintained his pole position, while Vettel got the jump on Kubica, with Felipe running fourth. The Safety Car was immediately deployed after Hulkenberg destroyed his Williams in the tunnel. Fernando having started from pit lane, after not taking part in qualifying on Saturday afternoon, as a result of his accident in free practice, immediately made his one compulsory pit stop so that he would use both types of tyre. Button was another casualty, parking his McLaren at the side of the track. At the restart, Felipe was pushing Kubica, with Hamilton hot on the heels of the Ferrari. Meanwhile, Fernando began a climb up the order, sweeping by the slower cars one per lap, going into the chicane at the exit of the tunnel. He was up to sixteenth on lap 15 and then found himself behind Hamilton when the Englishman changed tyres. Felipe made his only stop on lap 19 dropping to ninth, by which point Fernando was up to twelfth place, before finding himself tenth two laps later, just two places behind his team-mate. The pair were fifth and seventh respectively on lap 27 and Felipe inherited his finishing position, fourth, when Rosberg was one of the last to change tyres one lap later, which meant Fernando was now sixth.
Yet another Safety Car was required when Barrichello crashed heavily on lap 31 and again on lap 43 when a drain cover in the track came loose and had to be fixed. Then, with just a couple of laps remaining the final Safety Car, caused when Trulli and Chandhok blocked the road at Rascasse, had an effect on Fernando Alonso’s brilliant performance. As the Safety Car peeled off into pit lane, just along from the corner in question, Michael Schumacher squeezed past the Ferrari man to drop the Spaniard down to seventh at the flag. However, the Stewards later judged this was an illegal move, penalising the German Mercedes driver: he was given a drive-through penalty, but as this cannot be purged on the final lap, it was converted to a 20 second time penalty.
Therefore the final order for the points finishers was Webber, Vettel, Kubica, Massa, Hamilton, Alonso, Rosberg, Sutil, Liuzzi and Buemi.
Felipe Massa started the sixth round of the world championship from fourth place and that’s where he finished the 78 lap race, which ended behind the Safety Car. Fernando Alonso came home seventh, having been sixth until the last corner, when he was passed by Michael Schumacher in a Safety Car period, so the Spaniard’s sixth place was restored to him. Fernando provided much of the action in a race dominated by Red Bull, who finished first and second courtesy of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Robert Kubica in the Renault completed the podium trio. The result sees Fernando keep third place and Felipe move up one place to sixth in the Drivers’ classification, while the team remains second in the Constructors.’
As the red lights went out, Webber maintained his pole position, while Vettel got the jump on Kubica, with Felipe running fourth. The Safety Car was immediately deployed after Hulkenberg destroyed his Williams in the tunnel. Fernando having started from pit lane, after not taking part in qualifying on Saturday afternoon, as a result of his accident in free practice, immediately made his one compulsory pit stop so that he would use both types of tyre. Button was another casualty, parking his McLaren at the side of the track. At the restart, Felipe was pushing Kubica, with Hamilton hot on the heels of the Ferrari. Meanwhile, Fernando began a climb up the order, sweeping by the slower cars one per lap, going into the chicane at the exit of the tunnel. He was up to sixteenth on lap 15 and then found himself behind Hamilton when the Englishman changed tyres. Felipe made his only stop on lap 19 dropping to ninth, by which point Fernando was up to twelfth place, before finding himself tenth two laps later, just two places behind his team-mate. The pair were fifth and seventh respectively on lap 27 and Felipe inherited his finishing position, fourth, when Rosberg was one of the last to change tyres one lap later, which meant Fernando was now sixth.
Yet another Safety Car was required when Barrichello crashed heavily on lap 31 and again on lap 43 when a drain cover in the track came loose and had to be fixed. Then, with just a couple of laps remaining the final Safety Car, caused when Trulli and Chandhok blocked the road at Rascasse, had an effect on Fernando Alonso’s brilliant performance. As the Safety Car peeled off into pit lane, just along from the corner in question, Michael Schumacher squeezed past the Ferrari man to drop the Spaniard down to seventh at the flag. However, the Stewards later judged this was an illegal move, penalising the German Mercedes driver: he was given a drive-through penalty, but as this cannot be purged on the final lap, it was converted to a 20 second time penalty.
Therefore the final order for the points finishers was Webber, Vettel, Kubica, Massa, Hamilton, Alonso, Rosberg, Sutil, Liuzzi and Buemi.
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