The car had a lot of damage in it, to the point where we are having to change
the gearbox in it as well,” Williams’ chief operations engineer told
reporters. There was a significant amount of damage to the car, so the guys
did a really good job to even get it out for qualifying.”
Plenty of familiar faces in Monaco this weekend:
12:10 If you haven’t read or heard much since qualifying yesterday then
there is a little adjustment to make to the grid standings. As if a 10-place
penalty wasn’t enough for Maldonado he’s been handed a further five for a
gear-box change so things have altered a little since the end of Q3. The
Venezuelan is now starting from the back alongside Sergio Perez.
12:00 good morning/afternoon/evening depending on where in the world
you are joining me from for the Monaco Grand Prix the most glamorous race on
the F1 circuit. It’s been an action packed weekend on the Cote D’Azur
already so plenty to look back on before lights out at 1pm [BST]. Let’s be
honest the winner of this race is really anyone’s guess isn’t it? Almost a
case of put all the names in a hat and pull one out! You’ll all be well
aware that there have been five different winners already this season so to
add to the prospect of a record sixth, there have been five different
winners is as many consecutive years in Monaco…so as ever…it’s going to
be on heck of a race. As a footnote to the record and landmarks, today
celebrates the 70th time the Monte Carlos street circuit has hosted a Grand
Prix.
How the grid looks:
Webber, Rosberg
Hamilton, Grosjean
Alonso, Schumacher
Massa, Raikkonen
Vettel, Hulkenberg
Kobayashi, Button
Senna, Di Resta
Ricciardo, Vergne
Kovalainen, Petrov
Glock, De La Rosa
Pic, Karthikeyan
Maldonado, Perez