F1: Monaco GP in six words
By Andy Darley
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
A rain-soaked, incident-packed race with thrills, spills and some pretty heroic driving – you’d need a lot of words to accurately describe the Monaco Grand Prix, but we’re doing it in just six per driver and team.
Overall race report
Everyone made mistakes – Hamilton’s recovery triumphed
Drivers
- 1: Lewis Hamilton
- Lucked into winning strategy after crash
- 2: Robert Kubica
- Did everything right, just lacked speed
- 3: Felipe Massa
- Fewest blunders on poor Ferrari day
- 4: Mark Webber
- Prospered despite premature dry tyre switch
- 5: Sebastian Vettel
- Untroubled race, strong on drying track
- 6: Rubens Barrichello
- Back in the points at last
- 7: Kazuki Nakajima
- Concentrated on not crashing, reaped benefit
- 8: Heikki Kovalainen
- Fought back well from grid disaster
- 9: Kimi Raikkonen
- Sutil crash was poor day’s lowpoint
- 10: Fernando Alonso
- Played dodgems after overambitious tyre choices
- 11: Jenson Button
- Poor start, two collisions – disappointing day
- 12: Timo Glock
- Spent day spinning like a top
- 13: Jarno Trulli
- Extreme wets, drying track – bad combination
- 14: Nick Heidfeld
- Is fading badly as season progresses
- DNF: Adrian Sutil
- Everyone’s choice for driver of day
- DNF: Nico Rosberg
- Pushed, pushed, pushed – and wiped out
- DNF: Nelson Piquet Jr
- Showing increasing signs of confidence failure
- DNF: Giancarlo Fisichella
- Lost lower gears, race consequently doomed
- DNF: Sebastien Bourdais
- Backed off at yellow flag, lost control
- DNF: David Coulthard
- Career ending with whimper, not bang?
Teams
- Ferrari
- Did everything right Saturday, wrong Sunday
- McLaren
- Raced with their brains, were rewarded
- BMW Sauber
- Must be getting worried about Heidfeld
- Red Bull
- Webber advantage over DC getting embarrassing
- Williams
- Nakajima plodding, Rosberg flamboyant – caution prospered
- Renault
- A race to forget for everyone
- Toyota
- Looking strong, then misjudged tyre choices
- Toro Rosso
- Their new car brought them luck
- Honda
- Rubinho’s success rescued average-looking weekend
- Force India
- So nearly a huge, huge celebration
Thumbnail image from http://wordle.net
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Author: Andy Darley. Ex-journalist, fan of David Coulthard and anyone who ever drove or tested for Minardi and didn't say rude things about the team afterwards. Owns a Triumph Spitfire and hopes that, one day, it'll be on the road again. Andy has written 606 articles for us.
