Monaco GP - That’s much better!
Monte Carlo, 23th May 2009
For the first time this season, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro has got a car onto the front row of the grid and it could not have come at a better race, given the huge advantage having no one in front of you in Monaco can bring. It was Kimi Raikkonen who set the second fastest time, just a couple of hundredths of a second slower than the Brawn of pole man Jenson Button, the Englishman securing his fifth first place start of the season. Felipe Massa had a more difficult route through to fifth spot on the inside of Row 3, as he wiped his nose out against the barriers on his first run, through a combination of new brakes and the harder tyres resulting in locked up wheels. But the team work went like clockwork to get him back in the fight, although traffic seemed to be attracted to the Brazilian’s Ferrari like a magnet. It’s a measure of how the F60’s performance has improved that Kimi was rather disappointed at not having taken the top slot and Felipe felt he should have been in the top three, at the end of a very exciting session. In fact, in the second part of qualifying, when the cars run with the lightest fuel loads and are therefore at their quickest, Kimi actually set the fastest outright lap of the day.
Starting just ahead of the Finn will be Jenson Button yet again, while the Englishman’s Brawn team-mate, Rubens Barrichello, who celebrates his 37th birthday today, is third. Fourth place went to the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel, while Felipe will have the Williams of Nico Rosberg alongside him when the red lights go out tomorrow afternoon for the 78 lap race. Will it match the excitement of this afternoon’s session? That is never an easy question to answer here, as literally anything can happen: the race has very often been a dull procession, but sometimes a surprise, a Safety Car period or even the weather can turn events on their head. Starting from the front, Kimi at least will be hoping for a dull afternoon, with the possibility of his KERS boosted F60 getting the jump on the non-KERS Brawn on the first run down to Ste Devote corner.
For the first time this season, Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro has got a car onto the front row of the grid and it could not have come at a better race, given the huge advantage having no one in front of you in Monaco can bring. It was Kimi Raikkonen who set the second fastest time, just a couple of hundredths of a second slower than the Brawn of pole man Jenson Button, the Englishman securing his fifth first place start of the season. Felipe Massa had a more difficult route through to fifth spot on the inside of Row 3, as he wiped his nose out against the barriers on his first run, through a combination of new brakes and the harder tyres resulting in locked up wheels. But the team work went like clockwork to get him back in the fight, although traffic seemed to be attracted to the Brazilian’s Ferrari like a magnet. It’s a measure of how the F60’s performance has improved that Kimi was rather disappointed at not having taken the top slot and Felipe felt he should have been in the top three, at the end of a very exciting session. In fact, in the second part of qualifying, when the cars run with the lightest fuel loads and are therefore at their quickest, Kimi actually set the fastest outright lap of the day.
Starting just ahead of the Finn will be Jenson Button yet again, while the Englishman’s Brawn team-mate, Rubens Barrichello, who celebrates his 37th birthday today, is third. Fourth place went to the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel, while Felipe will have the Williams of Nico Rosberg alongside him when the red lights go out tomorrow afternoon for the 78 lap race. Will it match the excitement of this afternoon’s session? That is never an easy question to answer here, as literally anything can happen: the race has very often been a dull procession, but sometimes a surprise, a Safety Car period or even the weather can turn events on their head. Starting from the front, Kimi at least will be hoping for a dull afternoon, with the possibility of his KERS boosted F60 getting the jump on the non-KERS Brawn on the first run down to Ste Devote corner.
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