2011 Monaco Grand Prix
The Monaco Grand Prix 2011 was held on 29 May at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo and was the sixth race of the Formula 1 2011 season.
- 3.1 qualifying
- 3.2 race
- 4.1 Drivers' Championship
- 4.2 Constructors' Championship
Reports
Background
After the Spanish Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel led the drivers' championship with 41 points to 51 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber before. Red Bull -Renault resulted in the constructors' championship with 47 points ahead of McLaren -Mercedes and 110 points ahead of Ferrari.
Pirelli introduced the drivers the soft tire compounds (yellow) and Super Soft ( red), as well as for wet conditions Intermediates (light blue ) and Full - Wets (orange ) are available. The tire compound Supersoft arrived in Monaco for the first time used.
At Ferrari, it came ahead of the Grand Prix to a personnel change. Aldo Costa, who held the position of technical director until then, was released from his duties. Pat Fry took over as technical director in the chassis area.
With Michael Schumacher ( five times ), Fernando Alonso (twice), Jarno Trulli, Hamilton, Jenson Button and Webber ( once each ) were six former winners of this Grand Prix.
Training
The first practice was held in Monaco usually takes place on Thursday. During the first free practice Vettel posted the fastest lap before Alonso and Nico Rosberg. In this training, Daniel Ricciardo took over the Toro Rosso of Jaime Alguersuari. Webber drove during the first training only three rounds, the transmission of his Red Bull stuck after leaving the pit lane firmly in sixth gear, so he put no lap time. During exercise, there was a five-minute break, because repairs were made to the start -finish straight.
In the second free practice Alonso took the lead ahead of Hamilton and Rosberg.
In the third free practice session on Saturday Alonso scored again set the fastest lap ahead of Button and Massa. The training had to be interrupted after accidents of Rosberg and Vitantonio Liuzzi. Both drivers were uninjured.
Qualifying
In the first phase of qualifying Hamilton posted the fastest lap. The HRT pilots did not occur at the qualifying. Liuzzi vehicle could not be repaired in time and in the cars of Narain Karthikeyan presented to a problem with the rear suspension fixed after his accident in free practice. Although they did not manage to qualify, they have been approved by the stewards of the race. In addition, the Virgin and Lotus pilots and Jaime Alguersuari not make the leap into the second segment. In this Hamilton fired again at the forefront of the field. The Force India and Renault driver, and Sebastien Buemi, Kamui Kobayashi and Rubens Barrichello retired from.
The final qualifying segment was overshadowed by a serious accident from Sergio Pérez. Output of the tunnel he lost control of his vehicle, turned and slammed sideways into the boundary wall of the harbor chicane. For the rescue of the pilot and repair work on the track, the training was interrupted. Pérez remained conscious and was taken to a hospital. According to his team, he suffered no serious injuries. Pérez is a concussion and a compression have contracted the thigh. The accident was similar to the accident Karl Wendlinger, the 1994 also crashed heavily in the Sauber. Wendlinger was after this accident for weeks in a coma.
Finally, Vettel finished the qualifying from first ahead of Button and Webber. Hamilton, who had scored in the previous sections, the fastest time, came to the restart of the session only to seventh place. Current fastest lap time was, however, deleted him because he had abbreviated the harbor chicane. He fell back to tenth place. As Pérez did not compete for the race, he moved ahead to ninth place.
Race
Shortly before the end of the race, there was an accident in which Vitaly Petrov needed medical care and the race was interrupted. Vettel eventually won the race ahead of Alonso and Button.
Message list
Classifications
Qualifying
Race
WM stands after the race
, The first ten of the race were 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s).