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MARK WEBBER WINS THE 2010 MONACO GRAND PRIX

WC2010 RACESNEWS 6:59 AM

Australian has been on sensational form all weekend and his two great wins in quick succession put him on top of the drivers' points. Vettel takes second place to make it a Red Bull one-two but he has been unable to keep up with pace of his team mate. Robert Kubica, again on podium, taking maximum from his Renault around this challenging circuit.

11 drivers retired from the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix.

Nico Hulkenberg set the tone for today's incident-filled race when he crashed in the tunnel on the opening lap. In safety car period Jenson Button retired when his McLaren overheated. Lucas Di Grassi and Timo Glock both retired with mechanical problems. Kamui Kobayashi stopped out on track when running well inside the top five. Rubens Barrichello crashed heavily at the Massenet after a great early stint. Kovalainen and Senna retired in the pits on the same lap. De La Rosa also retired in the pits after a poor race.

At the final laps Jarno Truli and Karun Chandhok caused third Safety car period in the race. Michael Schumacher passed Alonso in final lap but that is going to be investigated by stewards.

The Monaco Grand Prix
Monte Carlo, Monaco, Monaco;
78 laps; 260.520km;
Weather: Sunny.


Classified:
Pos  Driver        Team                       Time
1.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           1h50:00.000
2.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault           +     0.448
3.  Kubica        Renault                    +     1.600
4.  Massa         Ferrari                    +     2.600
5.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           +     4.300
6.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +     5.700
7.  Alonso        Ferrari                    +     6.300
8.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +     6.600
9.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes       +     6.900
10. Liuzzi        Force India-Mercedes       +     7.300
11. Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +     8.100
12. Alguersuari   Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +     9.100
13. Petrov        Renault                    +    4 laps

Fastest lap: Vettel, 1:15.192

Not classified/retirements:
Driver        Team                         On lap
Chandhok      HRT-Cosworth                 71
Trulli        Lotus-Cosworth               71
Kovalainen    Lotus-Cosworth               59
Senna         HRT-Cosworth                 59
Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth            28
Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari               27
Di Grassi     Virgin-Cosworth              26
Glock         Virgin-Cosworth              23
De la Rosa    Sauber-Ferrari               22
Button        McLaren-Mercedes             3
Hulkenberg    Williams-Cosworth            1

UPDATE: SCHUMACHER GOT 20 SEC PENALTY.

2010 MONACO GP: WEBBER ON POLE AND BIGEST CHANCE FOR WIN

WC2010 RACESNEWS 6:14 AM

Red Bull remains unbeaten in qualifying. Mark Webber starts from pole position for the second lap of the row. He beat Robert Kubica by almost three tenths of a second to take pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix. Webber’s team mate Sebastian Vettel starts third alongside Felipe Massa’s Ferrari.

Pos  Driver         Team                    Q1        Q2        Q3
1.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault       1:15.035   1:14.462  1:13.826
2.  Kubica         Renault                1:15.045   1:14.549  1:14.120
3.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault       1:15.110   1:14.568  1:14.227
4.  Massa          Ferrari                1:14.757   1:14.405  1:14.283
5.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes       1:15.676   1:14.527  1:14.432
6.  Rosberg        Mercedes               1:15.188   1:14.375  1:14.544
7.  Schumacher     Mercedes               1:15.649   1:14.691  1:14.590
8.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes       1:15.623   1:15.150  1:14.637
9.  Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth      1:15.590   1:15.083  1:14.901
10. Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes   1:15.397   1:15:061  1:15.170
11. Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth      1:16.030   1:15.317
12. Sutil          Force India-Mercedes   1:15.445   1:15.318
13. Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:15.961   1:15.413
14. Petrov         Renault                1:15.482   1:15.576
15. de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari         1:15.908   1:15.692
16. Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari         1:16.175   1:15.992
17. Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:16.021   1:16.176
18. Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth         1:17.094
19. Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth         1:17.134
20. Glock          Virgin-Cosworth        1:17.377
21. di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth        1:17.864
22. Senna          HRT-Cosworth           1:18.509
23. Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth           1:19.559
24. Alonso         Ferrari                No time

ALONSO: WE NEED PERFECT SATURDAY

WC2010 RACESNEWS 8:15 AM

Fernando Alonso:
"I think for sure this is a circuit you need to get confidence as soon as possible. It is a circuit that you need to feel okay in the car and to maximise the potential, and it is very good to start in a good way because you don't need to go crazy or change completely the set-up or find a miracle for Saturday. You just need continuity in the set-up and the way you do your runs, and overall I think we found a car very good from the beginning and a car that was very easy to drive.

"Felipe and I were happy with our session, but we know in qualifying it will be very close, as we saw in practice. Within three tenths of a second, there are seven or eight cars, so we cannot afford any mistakes on the driver side or the set-up side."

"I think we maybe did improve a little bit compared to Barcelona, and hopefully we are not one second behind the Red Bulls. Butt we need to wait until Saturday. We have seen some strong Fridays from us and strong Fridays from McLaren, and then on Saturdays Red Bull got the pole position very easy. So we need to be clever and do a good lap on Saturday. If not you can end up sixth or seventh."

Surprisingly times of the Ferrari cars in first free training session for Monaco Grand Prix. In previous friday sessions they never drove with so little fuel in cars, so Alonso today had the best time recorded in Monte Carlo, just slightly ahead of Sebastian Vetel and Robert Kubica. The difference between the three fastest was only 0.089 seconds. Session took place in perfect conditions. Fears that there will be chaos on the track because of the increased number of cars and the big difference in speed between the favorites and new teams have proven to be false, i.e. there were relatively few incidents.

Pos  Driver         Team                   Time              Laps
1.  Alonso         Ferrari               1:15.927            31
2.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault      1:16.000  + 0.073   26
3.  Kubica         Renault               1:16.016  + 0.089   28
4.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1:16.382  + 0.455   24
5.  Massa          Ferrari               1:16.517  + 0.590   29
6.  Schumacher     Mercedes              1:16.589  + 0.662   21
7.  Hamilton       McLaren-Mercedes      1:16.647  + 0.720   32
8.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes      1:16.692  + 0.765   29
9.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes  1:16.805  + 0.878   23
10. Buemi          Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1:16.857  + 0.930   30
11. Rosberg        Mercedes              1:17.149  + 1.222   14
12. Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth     1:17.331  + 1.404   28
13. Liuzzi         Force India-Mercedes  1:17.704  + 1.777   26
14. Petrov         Renault               1:17.718  + 1.791   38
15. Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1:17.991  + 2.064   36
16. Hulkenberg     Williams-Cosworth     1:18.397  + 2.470   39
17. de la Rosa     Sauber-Ferrari        1:18.434  + 2.507   37
18. Kobayashi      Sauber-Ferrari        1:18.547  + 2.620   32
19. Glock          Virgin-Cosworth       1:19.527  + 3.600   23
20. Kovalainen     Lotus-Cosworth        1:19.606  + 3.679   31
21. Trulli         Lotus-Cosworth        1:19.902  + 3.975   30
22. di Grassi      Virgin-Cosworth       1:20.566  + 4.639   18
23. Senna          HRT-Cosworth          1:21.688  + 5.761   27
24. Chandhok       HRT-Cosworth          1:21.853  + 5.926   6