The Official 2016 Monaco Grand Prix Thread **Spoilers**
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great find.glazbagun said:
So I'm following that account on Instagram now, Max on the phone is a good one too 
Hope more appear on there.
https://www.instagram.com/formulawkward/
don logan said:
monamimate said:
What a great photo. Never seen Nice from that angle!
I'm not sure if you are being serious! ??PompeyM3 said:
wanacoop said:
Just out of interest, do you have any idea of rough costs for the whole thing? My mates want to go, we have been to Spa, but not sure if Monaco will be quite as reasonable.. Thanks.
As you can imagine the Sky is the limit with how much you could spend, but if you book things early enough, you can do it on a reasonable budget. The biggest cost is race tickets, but as this was my first time there, I wanted to get decent grandstand seats and was at a different stand each day.Thursday was Casino Square, Friday was a free day as it was non-F1 racing in the morning, so you could sit anywhere for free !. Friday I was in Rascasse opposite the pit entrance, then Sunday was in the big stand in Rascasse in the upper level, which also gives you a good view of the pit lane and all the F1 people coming and going. So you could do that cheaper, although I wouldn't been that keen on the general tickets which is on the hill.
Rough costs for the whole weekends (Wednesday to Sunday)
FLIGHTS TO NICE (EasyJet, Outward 14:00 Wednesday, return 22:00 Sunday = £240
RACE TICKETS (Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) = £660
HOTEL (4 Nights in Nice) = £375
TRAIN TO MONACO EACH DAY = £6 Return per day
Throw in some spending money for food and beer and you're looking at around £1500.
The thing that I liked was how close you are to the cars and you can wonder around the port and see drivers and celebs going to and from the pits to the motor homes giving autographs and photos etc. The track opens up to the public again at the end of each day, so you can walk it, stop for a beer, take some photos of Supercars and Boats.
If you can do it, I would well recommend doing it at least once.
ajprice said:
glazbagun said:
So I'm following that account on Instagram now, Max on the phone is a good one too Hope more appear on there.
https://www.instagram.com/formulawkward/
The "no leave a-da space, hey now!" Cracks me up!
I imagine there'll be more new videos during the next Grand Prix weekend
wanacoop said:
Thanks for that breakdown! Certainly something to think about. We have our 40th birthdays coming up in a few years, this could be the perfect excuse!
Or you could camp - http://www.campingf1.com/events/monaco_grand_prixI'm using this company to go to Spa, and it's £300pp for travel on P&O, 4 nights pitch, 3 day general admission race tickets. Bloody good price for all that.
I imagine they'll have some great deals for next years Monaco.
PompeyM3 said:
wanacoop said:
Just out of interest, do you have any idea of rough costs for the whole thing? My mates want to go, we have been to Spa, but not sure if Monaco will be quite as reasonable.. Thanks.
As you can imagine the Sky is the limit with how much you could spend, but if you book things early enough, you can do it on a reasonable budget. The biggest cost is race tickets, but as this was my first time there, I wanted to get decent grandstand seats and was at a different stand each day.Thursday was Casino Square, Friday was a free day as it was non-F1 racing in the morning, so you could sit anywhere for free !. Friday I was in Rascasse opposite the pit entrance, then Sunday was in the big stand in Rascasse in the upper level, which also gives you a good view of the pit lane and all the F1 people coming and going. So you could do that cheaper, although I wouldn't been that keen on the general tickets which is on the hill.
Rough costs for the whole weekends (Wednesday to Sunday)
FLIGHTS TO NICE (EasyJet, Outward 14:00 Wednesday, return 22:00 Sunday = £240
RACE TICKETS (Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) = £660
HOTEL (4 Nights in Nice) = £375
TRAIN TO MONACO EACH DAY = £6 Return per day
Throw in some spending money for food and beer and you're looking at around £1500.
If you can do it, I would well recommend doing it at least once.
Tuesday night tunnel, staying at the F1 hotel in Calais
Wednesday drive to Sospel, via Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and Italy (to avoid possible fuel shortages)
Thursday from the campsite in Sospel I get supplies and drive the Col de Turini - oh my god...just glorious.
Friday - train from Menton to Monaco 2euros?! 15 mins. Access all areas, GP2 etc etc
Saturday drive along the coast and spend the day in St Tropez and nearby beaches
Sunday, park at Menton station (6am) train to Monaco again, find my 'space' on 'Rocher', bed in for the day. After the race (brilliant!) drove to Milan and stayed over
Monday Milan to Lucern via Swiss passes....nuff said...
Tuesday Lucern to Calais via the Black Forest - amazing
All in food, tolls, accommodation, fuel and the F1 ticket - £800
fly or drive, do it.
Crafty_ said:
The Moose said:
Europa1 said:
As a couple of other posters have said, what on earth was Justin Bieber doing stood by himself next to the podium? That really jarred.
And whilst on the whole I'm a Hamilton fan, I thought him sharing the winner's champagne with a pop brat before sharing it with his team was poor behaviour.
It looked to me as if JB was Hami's guest at the race so not entirely inappropriate.And whilst on the whole I'm a Hamilton fan, I thought him sharing the winner's champagne with a pop brat before sharing it with his team was poor behaviour.
Certainly Brundle was only told he was doing the interviews mid-race, the jacket he was wearing was actually Simon Lazenbys and was sent up to the commentary box.
This would explain why Bieber was stood on the grid at the finish like a spare part.
tyranical said:
Vaud said:
Now you are just altering stats to suit an argument.
No he isn't... You don't say a footballer has played 6 games this season if he was injured for 2 of them - surely the same applies here? Lewis was not even on the track to compete for 2 poles due to reliability issues so how you can say Rosberg won the battle on those occasions? This is a perfect example of looking at a set of numbers in black and white and saying x is better than y without looking at the mitigating circumstances behind those numbers - You can make numbers tell you anything you like but it's the facts behind those numbers that tell the real story.
Scorecards only have numbers not pictures.
oyster said:
tyranical said:
Vaud said:
Now you are just altering stats to suit an argument.
No he isn't... You don't say a footballer has played 6 games this season if he was injured for 2 of them - surely the same applies here? Lewis was not even on the track to compete for 2 poles due to reliability issues so how you can say Rosberg won the battle on those occasions? This is a perfect example of looking at a set of numbers in black and white and saying x is better than y without looking at the mitigating circumstances behind those numbers - You can make numbers tell you anything you like but it's the facts behind those numbers that tell the real story.
Scorecards only have numbers not pictures.
Traditionally you'd consider a drivers impact on the car might cause them to have more mechanical failures than the other. Taking that viewpoint having to take grid drops or missing sessions due to broken parts shows that driver to be "not as good".
Not sure it 100% stacks up with the modern cars though.
Not sure it 100% stacks up with the modern cars though.
VladD said:
Slightly off topic, but if driver A out qualifies driver B, but driver A has a grid penalty due to a gearbox change, who is deemed the winner for the record?
Have a look:http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/res...
Qualifying and starting grid are both recorded. There is no "winner".
Similarly Schumacher took pole http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/18217660 but started lower due to a penalty. So no "winner" as qualify doesn't decide anything, but it still counts towards their pole stats.
VladD said:
Slightly off topic, but if driver A out qualifies driver B, but driver A has a grid penalty due to a gearbox change, who is deemed the winner for the record?
Depends on context; for me the typical backdrop for having the conversation would be assessing the drivers actual form to make predictions going forward, so the luck factor is set aside and driver A takes it but everyone will see things differently and too often whichever way paints their guy the besterest (even if they're argueing the opposite next week)record I guess is whatever the grid is decided upon
Munter said:
Traditionally you'd consider a drivers impact on the car might cause them to have more mechanical failures than the other. Taking that viewpoint having to take grid drops or missing sessions due to broken parts shows that driver to be "not as good".
Not sure it 100% stacks up with the modern cars though.
Are you suggesting that Hamilton's driving style is causing his issues this season?Not sure it 100% stacks up with the modern cars though.
swisstoni said:
Munter said:
Traditionally you'd consider a drivers impact on the car might cause them to have more mechanical failures than the other. Taking that viewpoint having to take grid drops or missing sessions due to broken parts shows that driver to be "not as good".
Not sure it 100% stacks up with the modern cars though.
Are you suggesting that Hamilton's driving style is causing his issues this season?Not sure it 100% stacks up with the modern cars though.
It's my mistake, I'm sorry to try and have an adult conversation in here. I'll go.
swisstoni said:
And with a flurry of chiffon he was gone.
It was a serious request for clarification.
Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick?
Apparently what happened was he posted a load of bIt was a serious request for clarification.
Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick?
ks, couldn't back it up then desided to get shirty with you for daring to ask, then backed that up with childish name calling and monkey comparisons (see post above).#stick grabbed and held onto i'd say, bet his fingers smell now
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