MONACO GRAND PIX

Normally, I'd try to post my notes the day of the race, but it has taken me a full week to even be able to think about the events I witnessed at the Grand Prix of Monaco. Monaco weekend was supposed to be the best weekend of the year, and this is what happened? Disgraceful.

FP1 

- both Haas black flagged for a legal thing? A logo related court case? Or no it’s a telemetry issue? And now that can’t tell Kmags to pit cause his radio doesn’t work, but Grosjean is in the pits and they got him to come in. It’s all speculation right now 

- crofty got surprised by the 2nd commercial break 

- Charles special helmet is half his father's and half Jules design 

- All the technology in the Haas garage has frozen and it’s chaos in there and they can’t go back out 

- Carlos Sainz McClaren is not going out and we don’t know why

- Robert Kubica has a little spin and touched the barrier with basically no damage which is almost impossible 

- Ham was rage driving at Kvyat for blocking him through practice 

- Max’s car fell off the stand and they had to inspect it 

FP2

- Albon is ahead of both Red Bull’s at the midpoint of this which is so cray 

- There is something wrong with Max’s car and he’s out of his car and having a drink 

- Fanni got the most amazing shout out in this and she is Bottas lucky charm 

- Seb stopped like one inch from the wall when he locked up

FP3 

- SEB crashed into a wall and there was nothing he could do and now it is all on Charles shoulders but at least this shows that what happened to Charles in Baku quali could happen to a world champ too

- Lance stroll got in Charles way in the tunnel and Charles made a hand gesture like what the heck and then got in front of him and then returned the favor but it was Gio behind him

- Magnussen got majorly in Charles way and Charles was not happy 

- Charles fastest in this session then Bottas second 

- Lance Stroll had a big lockup and went off, I’m soooo surprised.... 

- CHARLES IS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR POSSIBLY SPEEDING UNDER THE VIRTUAL SAFETY CAR that happened because of Vettel’s crash, wow I wonder what happened BUT ACTUALLY it’s obvious Ferrari forgot about Charles because their star player Vettel crashed and they were so worried about him they probably forgot to even inform Charles and now he’s in danger of getting a GRID penalty

Quali 

- they didn’t give Charles a penalty for the speeding in practice 3 and thank God because it would have been completely unfair 

- 40% chance of rain for this sesh officially 

- in Q1, Gio impeded Hulk majorly and it’s under investigation 

- Charles had a big lockup and almost hit the wall but saved it

- Charles missed the weight bridge and then Ferrari wheeled him back so hopefully they didn’t work on it at otherwise they could get a penalty like LBP did that time for missing the weight bridge 

- No penalties for the weight bridge thing so it was fine BUT THEN THEY DIDNT SEND CHARLES OUT AGAIN and they DID send Seb out and then because of track evolution Seb knocked Charles out of Q1. This is the most embarrassing qualifying I’ve ever seen. HOW IS CHARLES OUT OF Q1??????????? It wasn’t Charles fault! He got out of the car and went up to a guy in the garage and asked why we didn’t go out again and look at his heartbreak. He was fastest in FP3, this makes no sense

- How could Seb knock his own teammate out of q1. Seb was only in that position because he clumsily knocked the swimming pool wall in a weird place earlier in Q1 

- Everyone has no idea why Ferrari didn’t send Charles out again. It couldn’t have been the weight bridge thing because he wasn’t in trouble with that, it just makes no sense at all 

- LBP getting in everyone’s way in Q2 and the stewards are gonna look at it, “it was Gasly of course” 

- Top 3, Ham got pole, Bottas second, Maxy third 

Pre-race

- AND NOW ESTEBAN OCON IS HERE HOW COULD THIS WEEKEND GET ANY WORSE

- sooo sounds like LBP did get a penalty and so thanks for adding to the pain LBP

- Daniel starts from P6 with the penalty so that’s nice 

- WHY ARE THEY FEATURING HAMILTON ON THE MONACO GRID WALK UGHHHHHH

- Charles has like 3 giant billboards with just his face on it over the grid which I love 

- This is the most congested grid ever 

- All the drivers doing a Niki Lauda tribute with red hats 

- They have like skydivers taking down the Monaco flag 

- Nice Nico is here!

- oooooo there’s a 90% chance of rain for the race right now 

Race

- oh Gio got a penalty too 

- FERRARI IS STARTING CHARLES ON MEDIUMS why would they do that everyone’s on softs and it’s going to rain

- Charles great overtake and then 2nd time he does it, it punctures the back tires and it blows out and there’s debris everywhere and now there’s a safety car and rush to the pits and it was one of the most horrifying limps to the pit I've ever seen

- Then there was an unsafe release at pit lane and Max and Bottas hit each other and Max gained a place

- Kubica and Gio hit and stopped everyone behind them including Charles 

- Why did they put Charles again after that

- Charles radioed in like why bother

- Max and Bottas under investigation for unsafe release 

- Charles retires on lap 19 

- Max has a 5 second penalty for the unsafe release 

- Gio got 10 second penalty for causing a collision in track which I totally agree with because he stopped everyone behind him including Charles

- Max is trying to overtake Lewis for 1st so that he can drive away in front and undo the 5 second time penalty addition at the end 

- Max pushes Ham to go faster and it wore out Hamilton’s tires and it could push him to the pits which could let Max into first 

- Lance Stroll hit Kimi and everyone is still going but honestly I wish Kimi didn’t have to deal with the likes of Lance Stroll cause it’s ridiculous. Kimi cussed him out 

- Kimi was making it hell for everyone behind him for fun and it was great. It held up the Renault’s 

- Half the field is in one place

- Lance stroll 5 second penalty for who knows something he did

- Max is scaring Ham so bad and Ham has been complaining on the radio CONSTANTLY 

- Kmags and Perez incident noted, Kmags didn’t give Perez his fair place 

- Hamilton was yelling at the guys about his tires and it was bad even though they’re like just do this because if you pit you lose position 

- ultimately, Ham won