Sainz was the culprit, Ferraris mistake was they didn't know what to do when that asshole ignored orders, and second mistake is double stacking... they royally screwed Leclerc. and yes both RedBull and Ferrari fumbled with Max and Leclerc as they wanted to make it as safe as possible for them, Then RedBull pulled the trigger with Perez, Ferrari then wanted to counter with Sainz...but he ignored the call and from that point on it was a shitshow.
@@BuuGz86 strange take. Sainz made the right call and that's why he finished 2nd rather than 4th/5th. By the time he was called in Perez had made enough time to jump him the way he did Lecerlc!! Keeping the wets till taking drys meant keeping track position so even if Checo made the time up, all 4 drivers still had 1 stop to make. The only reason Sainz didn't win was dealing with a backmarker on his dry outlap.
I like the idea of the race directors having a media person whose whole job is to communicate with the media so that decisions can be explained better to the views.
There’s an article on PlanetF1 where Martin Brundle says that there is a WhatsApp group with commentators and the FIA in it. He also claims there was a huge argument in Monaco hence the delay.
I think the fact that fia Radio got cut shows that the fia isn’t particularly comfortable with unregulated access to their communication, tho id love the idea
@@DieSpeckBohne Well yes, but that would be the point of having a dedicated media person; right now their reaction to the FIA radio debacle seems to be to barely communicate externally at all, which I think most of us would agree is overshooting too far the other way, with the right balance between transparency and clarity being somewhere in between.
How would they explain not penalizing Albon, who held up Leclerc for a full lap under blue flags? And didn't even let him pass at all, he just botched the first turn...
I literally just dropped by coming from jolyons analysis, hoping chain bear could do a better job give us a visualization of how the strategy went down. Thankyou chainbear! You make complicated things easier to understand.
I found Palmer’s analysis spot on using his graph for top 4 showing the two stops and how Checo undercut Charles and overcut Sainz for the win (getting a bit lucky).
Palmer’s usually pretty good at the “moment things changed”, but even he was saying the TV footage available was hit & miss. It was Charles 1st stop (no footage) Palmer did do justice to Latifi though, he had 5 blue flags thrown at him when he was demonstrably increasing his gap to Sainz, so lot of unfair bully backchat from Carlos’ comments really. It took the second Ferrari to the Hotel Hairpin to fire up those cold hards in the wet.
Should add a orange flag for street circuits(given the frequency of red flags due to barrier repair and car removal) . This would essentially be a short red flag. Drivers keep seated in the pit lane and no work in the fastlane. Race can restart with 1min notice (just for starting engines)
11:40 If F1 was ever to drop Monaco I could see the FE race taking it's place immediately, it's no coincidence that they ran the same layout as F1 this year and the Gen3 cars are going to be much faster. Also with them going back to a winter calendar Monaco at the end of May would make for fitting season finale...
I don't think Sainz pit strategy was wrong at all, I think it was the best option, but he had bad luck by exiting the pits just behind Latifi who didn't let Sainz pass until the tunnel (if I remember well), if Latifi wouldn't stay ahead on the pit exit and let Sainz pass there Sainz probably would reach Checo exiting the pitlane after his dry tyre pit stop and be in front.
At the very least it wouldve been extremely close between Checo and Sainz, probably Sainz still coming behind Checo, but close behind and with the advantage on the warmer tires. But thats racing too. Sometimes u personally do everything right, yet through the actions of others end up going from 1st to 4th like Leclerc. Sometimes u and ur team do everything right, yet still need a little luck to get the win, like Checo. And sometimes a chance for a win turns into a frustrating almost thanks to a lapped driver ignoring blue flags for ½ a lap, like Sainz. While I do feel for Sainz, he really deserved his first win and needs it too after the awful season so far, overall I think, the race ended with the right winner, and I also really loved seeing Checo win, especially after the team order last week, and hes been clearly faster than Max all weekend and did a perfect race. But yeah, he needed a little help from Ferrari and Canadian Cash on Wheels to get there. But again, thats racing too.
loved the analysis as always! was hoping for a peek at just how much the Williams especially Albon ignoring blue flags ultimately impacted the race--if they pull over immediately would the ferraris possibly make up enough time to overcome the strategy errors, the way sainz seemed to imply post-race?
I don't agree with everything Martin Brundle says, but the one thing that almost never fails is 'always be on the right tyre at the right time'. You might need an extra stop but as we see here when you're 6 seconds a lap faster than the cars around you, you've soon made that extra stop back over those who waited to switch straight from wets to slicks.
Indeed, but in Monaco you also need the right gap to make up that time. Would be horrible if you're on the right tyre stuck behind a McLaren that is 3 secs per lap slower, and you still cannot pass him.
Sounds like you missed that Sainz got stuck behind Latifi for the first part of his outlap. He made the right call, just got a little unlucky with a back marker.
Yeah, well, my knowledge is kinda insufficient to make my own professional analysis, but it is something Palmer focuses in his analysis of the race. He said Sainz's idea was correct
Monaco GP is like visiting your Grandparents, you know it's not going to be super exciting. It's about the atmosphere and love and life isn't the same without it.
No mention of the Williams cars failing to yield to blue flag on Leclerc and Sainz's outlaps? Would be interesting to see how much of an effect that had. Strategy for Sainz might have worked pretty well and won the race if it wasn't for Latifi.
Mostly agree with your analysis, but it doesn't take into account that overtaking in Monaco is extremely hard. So pitting twice was very risky. Especially if you don't have gap to be put back in. Checo was lucky Lando pitted to clear to way for him.
Also doesn't account for Sainz being stuck behind Latifi for half of his outlap. I think RB's strategy for Perez was still stronger than Sainz's, but it would have been close.
@@lezhu6856 You can overtake a slower car but not without being held up. Every second counts in these in and out laps. Proven by the fact that both Leclerc and Sainz got held up by the Williams.
You either switch to Inters early on like Perez, or you wait and go directly to hards, like Sainz. It was hard to predict which strategy was better, and if Ferrari lost because it chose the wrong one, that would be fine. But pitting late for Inters, then double pitting almost immediately after for hards was just stupid. It clearly shows that Ferrari strategists were unable to predict even 2 laps into the future.
Not true, Ferrari did everything that they needed to do but got thrown off by Red Bull’s early and unexpected risky Checo attack with that tyre change to intermediates and putting a massive 7 second faster lap. They got knocked the fuck out and didn’t know where they were standing anymore. Even if they would’ve pitted Leclerc on the next lap after Checo, it would’ve been still game over for them.
@@LPChipi exactly, they didn’t know what to do anymore to get back at checo so what do they do? …they went and screwed it all up a little more and this time Verstappen took advantage of that. Monaco is a strategy race and all about the track position and Red Bull took all the risks aiming for a massive undercut since they were already behind and had nothing to lose so even if they wanted to, Ferrari wasn’t going to get that first position back after checo’s first stop.
Red Bull got a helping hand from Williams this weekend which made their strategy work. Checo was able to undercut Charles and overcut Carlos for the win.
lol what a theory, what if RB could watch where are the others and calculate in real time? Ferrari is so big they just slow in strategy as always, they f.ed it for themselves...
@@WalintHUN It’s not a theory but a fact. Albon impeded Charles for almost a full lap and Latifi impeded Carlos for almost half a lap on his outlap, which allowed both Red Bulls to gain positions. You can call it whatever you want.
@@M4NA5 and why Ferrari couldn't do a strategy or think ahead also? Do you know Haas has Ferrari engine? Sainz were in the Red Bull Junior Team and Albon too, hm-hm, but don't think Ferrari doesn't have connections, they are just couldn't react or even prevent this... now Ferrari has a competitve car, but sadly they are not there in mind to pick up the competition against RB yet which pretty hardened with Mercedes over the years.
Insofar as not allowing teams to work on the cars during a red flag how are you going to get around pit crews bringing 3-4 fans to avoid the engines and brakes overheating? Seems to me like hooking all that up and taking it off would be more complicated than swapping out a tire set and yet it's necessary.
Red Bull's knowledge on the pit exit lines/entry lines must have been from Saudi Arabian GP where they observed Leclerc running on the pit entry line and not getting a penalty.
Am I the only one that thinks that column chart is horrible to see time differences between cars? Why not use the normal telemetry with continuous lines? And as Palmer said, Perez wasn't the one that showed the inters were good, Gasly was the reference.
07:17 "any tyre of a car exiting the pit lane may must not cross any line painted on the track at the pit exit" If that's the new rule, no wonder they have trouble enforcing them, it makes no sense at all 😁
Frankly, it wouldn't be too hard to enforce it with an electronic sensor or two. Have sensors in the rims of the wheels and have sensors on the track. Once the wheels crosses(or touches) the line, it trips an alert at race control. There are a lot of ways to tackle the problem, but the FIA certainly isn't trying to solve stewarding problems with technology despite this sport being a multimillion dollar sport.
I love Monaco and hope it stays, especially after driving it with friends online, but the broadcast direction needs to be done by the F1 team, and not the locals. The F1 team is far from perfect, but they manage to miss a lot less than whoever does the Monaco broadcast... If Monaco won't budge on that, fuck em. F1 is for the viewers. Right?
Great summary of the event. I really feel like the Officials could do a much better job and keeping the viewers informed. There was even a lot of misinformation regarding the number of race laps - the additional formation laps effectively count as race laps, which even the commentators got wrong.
I think a Red Flag 'lite' could be added to the options. Under a Diet Red, cars line up in race order at the pit lane exit, no restart warning. Lights can go grees as soon as is safe. Teams can work on cars if they wish, but may lose position if they do. If you miss your place in the line because you took tyres, you cannot cut back in line, you must join the back of the line when you leave your box. Green lights will also not wait for boxed cars, box at yor own risk. This would result in position changes during a race stoppage, but I think it's fair.
@@pretzelhunt um.... ok... I only suggested stopping in the pitlane while marshals clear up, and having the drivers wait in their cars if the stewards think the restart might be sooner than 10 min. But you're entitled to your opinion.
@@Kris_T_ Oh you said something about working on cars which is a "non-starter" in the case you're now saying on your second comment but sure: change your plans whatever whenever, Shakira.
Even if Monaco gives dull races from a spectator POV, I think it's great to show how good drivers are, and this means that we should watch Monaco through another lens. Drivers have to be perfect to get a good result, and this is interesting on itself. Also, the strategy is key and has to be perfect, and this comes not only from the engineers and strategists but also from the drivers, case in point: Sainz telling his engineer why he thought that going straight to slicks was the better choice.
Sadly, a lot of spectators don't want to see Monaco GP through those lens. They want overtaking and overtaking and overtaking and nothing else. I see Monaco as an absolute test for F1 drivers, a test I couldn't pass even in a damn video game. Monaco is one of three most prestigious crown of motorsport and rightfully so. Having the chance to win Triple Crown is the right of every single racing driver, yet some of the spectators want the right to be abolished (and it's saddening).
@@adityairawan1843 it’s not about an overtake fest as that’s just not what F1 is at all. Seriously, that track is just not fit for the purpose and cannot be called a race track when a car going 5+ seconds off the pace of the leaders holds up a whole train of cars behind him…
Monaco’s problem is it hasn’t changed to keep up with the times. Other historic circuits like sliver stone or spa have had changes and updates to keep up with the needs of modern racing. For as historic as Monaco it hasn’t been that good for a long time and it doesn’t make sense to keep doing some just because history. Formula E should take up the race. Those cars are designed for the kind of close quarters racing that street circuits like Monaco have. F1 has just simply outgrown the venue.
I don't want Monaco to go. It's about prestige. It shows F1 can "race" anywhere. Every driver wants to win Monaco, the qualifying laps in Monaco might be THE qualifying of the year. It's about the thrill, like a rollercoaster. It's about being on a knifes edge knowing that the slightest lack of concentration will end up with a car in the wall. It's about turning a country into a race track. Don't let Monaco go, Monaco is F1 and F1 is Monaco.
Not sure why Monaco seems to be the only track which gets singled out for debate about whether it should be on the calendar. There are plenty of other tracks that offer extremely dull races that are never talked about, and if every track got replaced after a few boring races then pretty much none of the current tracks would be on the calendar now. Just keep fixing (removing) the disruptive aero on the cars and make them smaller and shorter again and less like the giant boats they've become.
Perez under-cut Leclerc during the first round of pitstops, and then both Red Bulls over-cut the Ferraris in the second round. I agree that in hindsight Ferrari's strategy looked much worse Also Perez's times looked slower when he came out behind Norris, and when he showed his true pace, it was already too late for Leclerc
Wouldn't it be a good idea to implement an extra ers deployment in the tunnel section? Like a drs advantage but without the danger due to loss of downforce. Of course the car Infront won't be allowed to use any ers when extra ers is given (in this section) I think this would make overtaking alot easier and the Monaco GP more existing
Gasly kicked off the intermediates stints followed by vettel, and it was the faster tyre then already, he was able to pass full wet running cars on track. (though vettel struggled to) Checos slightly later pitstop was still the perfect call as he lost track position to norris, who luckily came in right when checo was about to catch him, if he had pitted earlier he would have been stuck behind him for a few laps.
Chances are McLaren would have told Norris to let him past, I reckon. After all, Lando's race was with George, not with Checo, and losing time holding up the latter would only have compromised his own strategy.
@@rjfaber1991 i seriously doubt that. This is Monaco, 'defending' on this track is, in the vast majority of cases, accomplished by just driving like you normally would. Doing that would not have cost norris anything, in fact letting checo past would have been more of a time sacrifice. The pace difference must be enormous before defending is something norris would have to do here. You don't have to believe me, you may just have a look at how Hamiltons race went behind alonso after the red flag restart. Alonso was so incredibly slow that not long after the restart the car in front of him already had a free pitstop, which incidentally was norris I believe. And I for my part did not see alonso doing any defense moves at all, or better said, I didn't see Hamilton managing to mount even an attempt at overtaking him.
9:50 I heavily disagree with your conclusions here, the correct decision was obvious in my opinion. Imagine you are Ferrari (I know unfortunate) you have Leclerc in the lead by a huge distance from Perez. WHY respond to Checo pitting for Inters? In order to challenge Charles, he'd have to make up a pitstop's worth of time AND the ~10 second gap to Charles he had before pitting AND overtake Carlos AND overtake Leclerc for P1. You have information from you drivers that the track is drying out rapidly and a change in compound from Wet directly to hard is VIABLE. Taking Lap 22 as the optimal time to pit for dry tyres, Perez is NOT doing all the aforementioned in 4-ish Laps!! You had dry tyre data from ~ lap 20 from cars venturing out on dry tyres to inform yourselves on when the optimal time to make the switch to dry is. There is No excuse for their incompetence, you are making too many excuses for them haha. P.S- It's a shame you didnt mention anything about Albon blocking Leclerc on lap 21 for an entire lap nor Latifi blocking Sainz for half of his outlap P.P.S- Red Bull almost fucked over Checo, he would've got stuck behind Lando if the McLaren didn't miraculously pit for inters. Checo could've finished 4th but he won!!
Part of Monaco's problem is that it lost a bit of it's uniqueness of being a street circuit. In early 2000s, Monaco was pretty much the only street track (yes, yes, Melbourne, but Melbourne at times doesn't feel like a street circuit). Then by the end of the 2000s we had tracks like Valencia, Korea and Baku, now we have Jeddah (as disliked as it is) and Miami and we'll have Vegas. With more street tracks to compare it to, well ... not as special, other than the usually absolutely amazing Qualy session (just go watch the 2005 Q1). BTW, it was Gasly that went to inters first, struggled a bit, then started overtaking with the extra grip.
But why? Why not replace it with a circuit that has both good qualifying and a good strategy focused race? We need to get with the times and either adjust the circuit or make the cars smaller. Monaco doesn't deserve to be on the calendar just because of it's history. It should have to fight with every other circuit for entertainment purposes.
woah. Perez did an extra pit stop compared to Mercedes? amazing driving, and leave it to Red Bull to bust out those pit stops! street races... wish there were less of them!
Red Bull signing perez has proved to be one of the best driver moves for both team and driver in recent history, he's seriously closed the gap to Max this year. Done a better job than Gasly or Albon ever did, though I'd argue they both could've been given more of a chance...
I would say that the reason verstappen got away with the pit lane exit ordeal would be the "force majeure" aspect of the rule. Force Majeure means 'act of god' and rain could fall under that. it was a wet track and a wet pit exit and he oversteered and was correcting, so I would guess that the stewards utilised that part of the rule. same reason lando didn't get a penalty in russia last year when he was coming in to pit. He was on dry tyres on a wet track and crossed the line.
In my opinion Sainz also sabotaged Ferraris strategy a bit. If he had just covered Perez like his team told him to he could have slowed Perez down whenever it was needed to keep Leclerc in P1 and get the data on how the intermediate tire was working also.
Sainz is there to win and nobody told him to be leclerc's wingman. He does not have this obligation written in paper apparently. If it did, Ferrari would have put the order down and pitted him straight away.
@@gustavomarques4097 he hasn’t won anything yet has he? Nor has he ever even snatched a pole position so he’s a number two. I’m sure they’ll be straight about that from now on to not duck up both championships.
@@indiebekonn I agree, but maybe Ferrari don't. As I said above, Ferrari still holds Sainz and Leclerc on equal terms within the team and that's hurting their title run against RBR. And Sainz will not put himself into second driver duties. The whole philosophy of team management is not defined inside SF and they will suffer until they correct this situation. Sainz thought he was entitled to fight for the win and he did so because they allowed him to.
I was waiting for a video like this one to fully understand how the pitstops determined the race. Thank you very very much for your crystal clear explanation! 🙏
With Vertappen's lack of a penalty, I actually like that new rule a bit better. Sometimes drivers can't control if so much as a centimeter goes across the line, and it's so miniscule of a difference that it's silly to penalize someone for it. Also, the cars shouldn't be changed to keep Monaco. It's more Monaco than the cars at this point.
I agree about Monaco being Monaco, however, I think the cars should be changed to reduce weight and size. It makes racing so much better. I don't think it will happen though, because of the safety systems and crash structures.
Durign Mick's crash, the VSC-to-Safety Car-to-Red Flag, many F1 fans will find that odd... not for Motorsports fans in general tho. Those who watch WEC knows that's fairly standard, especially so since Freitas is the race director. Back on WEC they frequently use FCY or Full Course Yellow (their equivalent of the VSC) for crashes before deploying the safety car or red flag. Don't doubt Freitas, he's no Massi, and he knows what he's doing. Managing 20 cars is a piece of cake to him, he manages 40+ cars with 3 additional safety cars during a Le Mans 24 hours.
If the rain was that hard at 15:16 then the radar at 15:00 must've been ominous. The tentative way they tried to get going could just be weather radar saying "99% chance of mega rain in 60 seconds!" for 15 minutes, making it a weird/difficult decision.
Fantastic video as always. Absolutely love this channel. I honestly don't want Monaco to change at all. I love it the way it is - always have and always will. It's my favourite race weekend of the year.
because lapped cars are part of any race. It just happens to be Monaco where even getting out of the way intentionally is hard from how narrow the track is. Unfortunate for Sainz but as they say: "that's racing"
@@juanperaza3054 Sainz was in front of Latifi at pit exit, but he overtook him, then stayed in front all the way until after the tunnel, got tens of blue flags in the meantime. That is not normal, yet, nobody talks about it.
@@Ciaolo cars can unlap themselves. They have the right to. If the opportunity arises, they will take it. Sainz claims Latifi should have slowed down to ensure he came out behind him but that’s Sainz being bitter and believing he has some royalty status for being a Ferrari. Tough luck for him and Ferrari but I’m sure they wouldn’t have had a problem if the roles were reversed and the redbulls were in that situation. So I guess it’s a case of being angry that they didn’t get the result they wanted.
@@juanperaza3054 You have no idea about the rules apparently. The "opportunity" you mentioned can only happen when a lapped car overtakes WITHOUT slowing down the car that is 1 lap ahead. Royal status for being a Ferrari? Are you serious? Probably you are very new of the sport.
since people are talking about the future of Monaco, they could turn Monaco into somekind of special event in the calender, instead of a full on race it could be a time attack, quali in Monaco is always cool, so turn it into a full on time attack event, full of special and unique liveries and so on. :v even if the race around Monaco is boring, drivers still like to drive there, they like quali and the fans love it, so if they can have the best motorsport organizers to create a time attack format for a special event in Monaco, that would be awesome,
I like your theme, but the old version of the theme (the non 8-bit one) always ended on this really interesting chord, and the new one just ends on a regular octave chord. I miss that old theme, man.
I'm getting tired of the "more overtakes = better race" story. If you wanna see 100 overtakes go watch Nascar. I loved the final stint with the Red Bulls and Ferraris going around bumper to bumper. Yeah sure they didn't overtake each other but that didn't make the racing any less impressive.
Overtaking should happen when there is a pace difference between the cars, Monaco stops that. RB could just put their cars on the worse mediums to prevent being overtaken at the restart and then trundle home to an easy 1-3. That isn’t racing, it’s a log jam.
Why is nobody talking about Williams?? Is there a conspiracy of silence?? FIA didn't even penalize them. Albon ignored 20 BLUE FLAGS, a whole lap, ruining Lecler's crucial lap. Latifi didn't let Sainz go through before T3, blocking him until the tunnel. Williams did a dirty job for RBR this weekend, a complete scandal and whole F1 is ok with that?? I wouldn't be surprised with a merge between Williams and RBPT.
Imho this analysys is perfect in every track beside Monaco. At Monaco track position is too important, lap times are nealry irrelevant. Perez is faster than anyone else? yes, true, but if Norris doesn't pit exactly when he arrives behind him he would have been stuck in fifth, same as other in front, Leclerc pit? he would have been behind Verstappen, closed the gap and then what he would have do? nothing, just waiting for Verstappen pit for slick , same as Sainz , he would have exit behind Norris AND Verstappen. and because you are IN FRONT you don't know what people do behind, RB was lucky with Norris and then they had the full advance on strategy , Ferrari pit = Stay out , Ferrari stay out = Pit . After the Verstappen Pit they protect at least that position, because they had nothing to lose at this point (Sainz was in front) so it was still 1-2 for Ferrari, but then they had blue flags, Perez was just 1 second in front of Sainz, So Ferrari's strategy was a mixbag of good (track position) and then very bad calls (double pit stop), but they were unlucky. RB strategy was in part worse than Ferrari, just watch Norris, he lost the track position to Russell because Russell did the Wet - Slick thing. So RB just gambled 3 Perez points (they are less important than Max's points) at Monaco's Casino, and 3 points against Norris witch isn't a contender, so who care (If Ferrari did lose a position to RB they would have lost like 2x the points) and they were lucky 3 times, Norris, blue flag and at restart too , 5 second slower with graining, but Monaco is Monaco. And it's unique for this too, it's chaotic.
I disagree that Sainz got the strategy call wrong. You are focusing on Race Time, but this is Monaco; track position is more important. We saw in 2016; Ricciardo managed to jump Hamilton by skipping the intermediates, and would have won if it wasn't for RBs pitstop blunder.
Sorry, Peter Windsor was making the same mistake about Red Bull's strategy and tire calls. What happened in Monaco is unique to Monaco. Track position is supreme in Monaco and this is what Ferrari should've considered rather than "being on the right tire at the right time". If Sainz put the tires of a 1930s Soviet Union combine harvester on, he still would've won. Hamilton and Riccardo have previously proven that even I can win the Monaco GP in my diesel Kia Cee'd Family Estate once I'm already in the lead!
As always when we're talkng about the future of Monaco GP, I suggest to change format from classic GP race, to Hotlap Tournament acting Prologue of sprint season. Monaco is perfect to do so - tight, demanding track and suspense of 1v1 Hotlap Battles for each driver in the bracket. At the same time, we're determining starting grid order for the next Sprint Race, without ruining GP Race, as was done in Imola.
Gasly pits for inters on lap 2 and overtakes Zhou on lap 12 in Mirabeau, in comparable machinery. Later in this lap he overtakes Danny Ric in the swimming pool. At this point it should be crystal clear that the inters are way way ahead of the wets. RB acted on it, Ferrari didn't. One could have assumed by Gasly's pace that the inters were quicker. By lap 7 he was lapping quicker than Perez, Max and Sainz only being slower than the race leader, who's in clean air. Classic Ferrari MasterBlan clowning once again. I really struggle to understand what were they thinking. Look how they massacred my poor prince.
Prompted by Toto's comment about reconfiguring the track, I went to Google Maps to see what might be possible. It looks like the track could continue along the Avenue John F. Kennedy instead of turning into the Nouvelle Chicane after the tunnel. There's already a chicane of sorts just before Tabac where Route de la Piscine connects to JFK, and room for runoff. This extended straight would allow for a true, hard-stop overtaking opportunity (with the option of DRS if necessary) without onerous modifications to the circuit.
Re: red flag procedures and the VSC-SC-Red Flag thing after the schumacher crash, I feel like there's a pretty logical decision tree that could be created to cover 99% of situations. Is a barrier damaged? Consider red flag. Check if pit entry is blocked. If blocked, do not throw red flag! Etc. Multiple times this season, and a couple times in Monaco, the logical sequence of decisions just didn't seem to be followed. As for the rain messing with the systems, the way they dealt with it was pretty smart but those systems really should not get knocked out by some weather, F1 is a rain or shine sport.
I can’t stress enough that communicating a power cut that has disabled major services, when the command center has been affected by the power cut is one of the hardest things to do in Professional Communications. FIA race operations communications are probably controlled by email & tweet-deck with AWS cloud storage. Either from Race Control or the Geneva Operations Centre. If the local routers for Race Control had lost power, likely as the lost control of the start lights, they’ll have no network to access any of the comms contacts, templates or channels or to the Geneva Office. At that point they are part of the major incident and restoring comms is only item 3 on the list (after safety checks & main service restore). So unless they have a paper-based cellphone tree to hand, a 5G emergency dongles specifically prepared for this, or just spare staff who can be used as runners, all comms will be retrospective, no avoiding that. I’ve experienced this kind of issue twice in my professional life, once in a hurricane that was bringing down buildings nearby, so no one cared about service disruption comms & once under a supercell thunderstorm that surgically killed the computer network & local cellphone tower simultaneously (thanks gods). I know things weren’t as extreme in the pirate kingdom on Sunday, but the FIA runs a mobile operations center that relies on their host’s infrastructure, so the fact it happens so rarely itself is admirable. This is a perfect case study to put to Monaco for the FIA to have more control of the facilities for the F1 weekend. A heavy shower should not kill the electrics of a C21st global business. But Monaco has always looked C19th with upgrades.
Leclercs race was ruined the second he came in for inters. He came out behind Sainz and Perez all needing another stop. Had he stayed out and only done 1 stop he probably would have won. Sainz strategy would have worked had he not been stuck behind Latiffi for 3/4 of a lap. He came out 1.6s behind Perez and probably lost 4+ seconds behind Latiffi. The redbulls had nothing to lose by going to inters and basically panicked Ferrari into mistakes.
The regular F1 commentators are not good. Cracking dumb jokes to cover up their lack of knowledge and it’s just cringe everytime they’re on camera. If you want serious commentary with vast experience, knowledge, race analysis, a history lesson and a fair amount of humour watch an current Australian V8 Supercars Fox Sports race. I learn something about cars everytime I watch
I really think we should not be predictive about starting a race or not. Even if a torrential rain is about to hit the track, if it's 15;00 and track conditions are ok then you start! Doesn't matter if it's likely to be a red flag a few laps later. We don't want our (already bit incompetent) stewards to also take the role of being predictive meteorologists. I mean we'll never know for sure and Monaco was a fun race this year, but imagine if the race started at 15;00 and excitement we could have had (which team predicted the weather correctly a.k.a. inters vs wets. rapidly changing track conditions. risk/excitement. who pits v.s. who 'awaits' red flag. etcetera).
I've been saying Monaco was a boring procession race. It wasn't missed last year and this year is with meh even with rain. Monaco HAS to pay the same or more as everyone else to be an F1 venue and change that outdated, small track. I do NOT CARE how long the track has been like that and I don't care why, its boring for current F1 cars. Oh that's the rule now, we'll see how it's enforced at a different time and track...
Monaco looks nice, but It's always frustrating to watch because they can't really race, and we all want real racing. Tradition is nice, but it can stifle healthy evolution. F1 has moved to improve racing with the new car. Don't stop there, make every race count. Remove tracks that aren't suited for these cars. We should never look at the schedule and see a race we might be willing to skip because it's sub-standard, track-position-is-everything racing.
Red Bull were right to challenge the wording of the Dec 2021 version of the rule regarding crossing the pit exit lane, however what needs to be explained is why the rule was changed, because this new version of the rule increases the risk of a major collision, which is what the rule is supposed to prevent. This new interpretation of the rule is DANGEROUS and irresponsible.
As much as I always want the drivers to win their home races, I am so so so pleased that Perez finally has a Monaco win. He deserves it. He has always been fantastic in F1, just been in subpar cars up until Force India/Racing Point and now RB. If there is one driver who deserved that RB seat, it was Perez. And he is a superb teammate to Max. He accepts he is number 2 driver, he accepts that in situations, the team are going to favour Max and potentially cause him to give up positions (as has done) or to battle in order to get Max to catch up. Regardless, this deserves serious recognition, same goes for Bottas/Ham.
I think we should also explain that in these conditions on this track, the drivers behind have the advantage of choice, pit early for inters? ok the inters are 3/4s faster but now you're behind RB and they're not stopping until drys, good luck overtaking them, pit reacting to RB? good luck staying ahead as Perez eats your margin with his 3/4s faster outlap on inters, it is also to be noted that Sainz lost track position on Perez because he got impeded by Latifi for basically his entire lap Maybe the best solution was to pit Lec right away to cover for perez and let Sainz go straight to drys and then you can have them switch positions to give the lead back to lec once you swapped for drys, or, like Ferrari's original plan was, pit Sainz right away after perez for inters and hope he can come out ahead buying time for lec to swap directly for drys, but insight is 20/20
Monaco just needs two good overtaking spaces, that would fix the whole race. You know, good spaces without having to be on a 12+ second a lap advantage on the car in-front like Gasly had. The size of the card doesn't help, but if they could adjust the streets to help create a space for an overtake, Monaco would be staying for a long time. The track itself is unique and fantastic to drive, unlike most of the street circuits. Baku excluded, I love that circuit too.
Should Monaco stay on the F1 calendar? No, because the track has been illegally classed as a Grade 1 track despite having a lap distance 200m shorter than the minimum distance required. They need to bring an end to the Monaco GP being corruptly placed on the calendar like this.
This explains how Sainz is fully responsible of the Ferrari disaster for refusing to pit for intermedium. This video does not explain why Latifi can ignore 7 and Albon 16 blue flags.
Eduardo Freitas’ communication with the teams is broadcast during WEC races. The audience always knows what decisions race control makes and why. F1 could learn from their example.
Most people agree that qualy around Monaco is great, so why don't they remove a couple of practice sessions and make a more complex qualy format (something like the Indy 500? they almost always race on the same day too so...). Less practice often means crazier races, and more qualy at Monaco sounds like more interesting things to follow. I couldn't really tell what was happening with that graph. I think comparing race laps in once place and in /out laps in another one directly would be much more clear hmmm
Maybe we should do only quali laps in Monaco? Like do Q1, Q2, and then 5 Q3 during the weekend while allowing to change setup and so on. A best lap for a given Q3 is worth 5 points, etc...
Interesting, your view is a bit different from Palmer's. He said that Sainz's idea was really good but some misfortune, including Latifi blocking him on the outlap, resulted in not getting the win. Love your videos, but wish you had touched on that matter.
Great analysis as always. @2:00 "so the broadcasters don't have problems with subsequent programming" in the uk sky charge me £18 a month for 1 channel and for that I'd like to see a complete race.
Any tyre must not cross a line. The fact that they accepted RB's argument is... Because it's Max Verstappen. If I state that no person must cross a certain line and then some dude lays 99% across the line and leaves a toe on the correct side of the line, that guy has fucking crossed the line. It's beyond dumb to suggest it's the full tyre. What happens if 90% of the tyre is to the left of the line and another car (racing, not coming out of the pit lane) arrives. Can that car also go with 90% of the tyre on the right side of the line, invading the pit box lane? Is his crossing of the line to the right conceptually different? That line has a purpose, and it's to avoid collisions when there's a difference in speed, low visibility and, in general, there's a safety concern. Interpreting this rule like that basically renders the line useless. The inability to make clear rules in F1 and warrantee they are enforced is preposterous. No other sport has all this BS. The clearest way to define this rule and enforce it is: any part of the car touches the line, you are penalized. Done.
I think dropping the Monaco GP for USA street races would be F1 selling its soul, not to mention the unthinkable of getting rid of Spa. Let's not kid ourselves and say Monaco is brilliant, but it is more unique than Miami, Vegas, Singapore or any other street race, has history and prestige, so why get rid of it, to replace it with bang average races that have none of that. Excellent analysis as always, as a Leclerc fan this season is becoming tougher and tougher to watch, Ferrari really need to get some better strategists.
Regarding the VSC after Schumacher's crash, race control said after the race they called an initial VSC just while the leader got to the start/finish straight, then the full SC could pick up the leader straight away rather than having some backmarkers between them. That way, if it DID remain a SC and not a red flag, there would be no need for anyone to overtake the SC and things could be got going again quicker and safer.
