Although your link appears to be to an article by Andrew Benson. I would be interested to read the views of a trustworthy F1 journalist such as Nigel Roebuck or Mark Hughes. If Hamilton and Rosberg have reconciled their views after what happened in Spain it would be a surprise and a relief. We don't really want to see the kind of unpleasantness which escalated between Prost and Senna, for example.

 

i'm just watching the Drivers' Press Conference from earlier today.

For those who haven't seen one of these, six drivers are chosen by the FIA well in advance of the event, and are contractually obliged to attend. Questions come from members of the accredited F1 journalists in an open forum format. These are often interminably dull affairs, only enlivened if there has been some form of incident at the previous race.

For Monaco, the drivers involved are Jolyon Palmer, Romain Grosjean, Pascal Wehrlein, Max Verstappen, Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel. The event, and a similar conference for Team Principals, are broadcast live and in their entirety.

Nico Rosberg has, not surprisingly, been the recipient of most of the questions, and at one point he said that he and Lewis Hamilton have talked about the incident in Spain, but that it was "an internal matter".
A link to a transcript of the Press Conference: http://www.fia.com/news/f1-2016-mona...ess-conference

Paddy Lowe is on the panel for the Team Principal's conference scheduled for tomorrow. Let's see what he has to say.

 

Although your link appears to be to an article by Andrew Benson. I would be interested to read the views of a trustworthy F1 journalist such as Nigel Roebuck or Mark Hughes. If Hamilton and Rosberg have reconciled their views after what happened in Spain it would be a surprise and a relief. We don't really want to see the kind of unpleasantness which escalated between Prost and Senna, for example.
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The Senna Prost rivalry did no harm to the sport...."If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver."
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/25...9-japanese-gp/

 

Although your link appears to be to an article by Andrew Benson. I would be interested to read the views of a trustworthy F1 journalist such as Nigel Roebuck or Mark Hughes. If Hamilton and Rosberg have reconciled their views after what happened in Spain it would be a surprise and a relief. We don't really want to see the kind of unpleasantness which escalated between Prost and Senna, for example.
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The Senna Prost rivalry did no harm to the sport...."If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver."
http://www.motorspor...89-japanese-gp/
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Quite right, too much 'after you sir' these days not enough 'get out of my way I am here to race', Prost nor Senna took no prisoners and it was compelling viewing ... some peoples idea of racing appears to be 'lets sanitise everything, failing to realise sanitise = boring processional and repetitive'.

 

I agree. The actual racing has become a sideshow to the soap opera/business that has consumed Formula 1. By starting the fastest cars at the front the rules don't exactly encourage racing.

Wait until the wider cars appear in 2017. Monaco will become even narrower then!

 

A great lap from Ricciardo!

He has earned that.

And Max, like I said too much too soon for him. He has potential but he needs to be nurtured. I am worried about how he is treated with a couple of duff results.

 

 

Daniel Ricciardo has every reason to feel that he was badly let down by Red Bull. He had the race in his pocket, the Mercedes drivers, Rosberg in particular, were having trouble keeping the tyres in the "window" and his team messed up a pit stop.

For the second race in succession Ricciardo has been denied a win, firstly by wrong-footing themselves with tyre strategy in Barcelona and then the debacle at Monaco. Still, it could be worse. He could be in a Ferrari.

 

I wonder what Red Bull will practising this week? morse code - semaphore- carrier pigeon release, these may solve their communication problems, fortunately there are no more split level pit garages to create problems,or are there?

 

I wonder what happened with Rosberg, he was so much slower than Hamilton at the start of the race?

Hamilton was about 2 seconds a lap quicker once Rosberg let him past.