Jenson Button set the fastest time of the second free practice at Monaco on Thursday with a time that was four-tenths faster than Romain Grosjean’s Lotus. Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso were next for Ferrari, but the session was disrupted by a sprinkling of rain, which saw a few of the drivers sliding off, but no major damage being caused. The order should thus be treated with caution.
Pastor Maldonado was fifth ahead of Nico Roberg, Mark Webber and Kamui Kobayashi. Michael Schumacher set the ninth best time, ahead of Sebastian Vettel, with Lewis Hamilton 11th, ahead of Paul di Resta, Bruno Senna, Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez.
Vitaly Petrov was 16th in his Caterham, beating the two Toro Rossos of Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo, while Kimi Raikkonen was suffering from missing the morning session and was only 19th.
Timo Glock was next in his Marussia, ahead of Heikki Kovalainen, Charles Pic, and the two HRTs of Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan.
Pastor 5th, rain or shine? Bodes well for the lad and the team.
Ah, nothing and then a bomb. Shame the disposal rendered the contents unidentifiable. One of my purchasing managers, ex-NI bomb disposal, said they always used a bag full of water between the suspect item and the disposal charge, this then gently (relatively) scattered the contents but left them fully identifiable.
Why would anyone want to blow up the F1 media? That sounds like a serious case of news-creation
Terrorists often have very skewed ideas of what constitutes a legitimate target. Plus if it gets them publicity…..
An inside job then?
I take it the “suspect package” has been declared a none bomb then? You didn’t drop your lunch box did you Joe?!
I’m just starting to feel it’s all too choreographed, lately. Not moaning, blinding season, but how can you ignore Ross effectively telling Michael to shut up about the tires?
rpaco, I have totally lost what you’re on about. understand the water bit – excellent safety. I used to live in a building where the IRA had targeted a old hanging judge, and have experienced my windows blowing out. (thankfully, they had the wrong block) and later worked next to a guy who was discharged shell shocked from his NI duty. Awesome salesman, drill sergeant, simply drilled the pitch and dictated terms, funniest thing ever. Highly effective. But I simply don’t get the plot on dropping ordinance on the journos. I’m sure Bernie might like the last one standing to be a certain non journo puppet, but sounds a bit extreme!
Other silly thing I saw today, whilst Joe was busy, was Kimi being told not to rally. Really! Be bigger news if he was told not to party. But I rather think he’s grown out of that.
A bunch of wires it says on the news. Somewhere in the area of Monaco, a soundman is waking up, wondering where he left his headphones and cables…
I’m curious – what happens in Monte Carlo on a Friday? I was under the impression in the old days it was market day, and the roads needed to be open for that, but it doesn’t really strike me as a market town these days…
Looks like the weather could turn things upside down in both qualy and the race. http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:00000.1.WMONT.
If it’s gonna rain then maybe its best viewed from here on tv.
Saward is strangely quiet about this matter…hmmmm!
What matter?
I thought the matter of the day was the IPO is off.
More?