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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
OK. I'll eat my word's on this year's race.
Some actual passing occured along with a decent amount of flat-out driving - not usually a hallmark of Monaco.
Massa's attempted pass in the tunnel was truly fooolhardy but spectacular, so he wins big points for that. Very Senna-esque.
The red-flag finish was a real dissapointment though. It looked like we were going to have a good old scrap right to the end.
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Actually by what I saw it was the other way around. First up Hamilton barged Massa in the hairpin and then forced his way alongside him into the tunnel which forced Massa wide and on to the marbles. From there it was nearly a foregone conclusion what was goint to be the result.
The red flag was the low point of the race for me, it was shaping up to be a real fight for the poduim positions but as they all stopped and all dropped on fresh tyres it put paid to that and it was basically a procession out the front. The only high point of the finish was Webber getting the jump on Kobayashi into the chicane. Good racecraft to put him in a position where he had to either concede the place and drop in behind him, or try to hang on on the outside and and most likely (As actually happened) miss the chicane meaning that he had to concede the place anyway.
It is hard to imagine a place that would be more unlikely to get a GP if they made a pitch for one at FOM. If you proposed the Monaco layout as a new circuit you would hear nothing but howling laughter! But surely it would be the one GP that is safe as long as the city wants to keep on having it there. How do you ignore a history like that?