Monaco Qualifying Debate is Nonsense

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Published: May 12, 2010

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Heading into the Monaco GP, drivers and teams are concerned about weekend traffic. That’s not the normal everyday road traffic that circulates the streets of Monte-Carlo when F1 isn’t in town, but the potential threat that the new teams could ruin the laps of the frontrunners around the short and very narrow circuit.

The main area of concern is the 20 minute Q1 session where there will be 24 cars competing to get into Q2. If all 24 cars were on the track at the same time there would be an average gap of 139 meters between each car. Time-wise, there would be an average of 3.125 seconds between each car. Of course the cars won’t be spaced out evenly on the track so you get the potential for problems.

There were proposals over the Spanish GP weekend that Monaco GP qualifying should be split into two segments with 12 cars in each session.

Mclaren’s Martin Whitmarsh says: ”I think Q1 in Monaco will be very, very difficult and it's difficult for all of the cars. At the moment we have to accept that there are six cars that are very difficult to avoid."

He added: “When you're trying to open a gap you have cars behind you so you can't back off, and it's a circuit where you're going to catch cars and a circuit at which it's very difficult for those cars to get out of the way, even if they want to.”

Lewis Hamilton has suggested that backmarkers could make Monaco “a disaster” whilst Jenson Button opted to use the word “nightmare.”

It’s clear that the front teams are very nervous of messing up, and qualifying low down the grid, where due to the nature of the circuit, it would be almost impossible to fight back and score good points. Ferrari and Mclaren certainly don’t want to suffer the same fate they did in Malaysia and get eliminated after Q1.

Thankfully, Charlie Whiting has ignored the requests to alter the qualifyin...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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