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Monday, 30 May 2016
Sebastian Vettel takes blame for missed Monaco GP F1 victory shot
Sebastian Vettel blames himself for missing out on an opportunity to challenge for victory in the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix because he did not deal with traffic well enough
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Daniel Ricciardo not sure how to move on from Monaco GP loss
Daniel Ricciardo says he is not sure how to move on from the disappointment of losing the Monaco Grand Prix due to a Red Bull Formula 1 team pitstop error
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Nico Rosberg: Letting Lewis Hamilton past in Monaco 'very painful'
Nico Rosberg has claimed it was "very painful" allowing by Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton during the Monaco Grand Prix, but believes it made the team's victory possible
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Arrivabene: There are 15 races to go which is plenty of time
Despite a nearly anonymous Monaco for the great Italian marque, Maurizio Arrivabene insists the world championship is still within Ferrari’s grasp.
However, after a poor weekend in Spain, the red cars were once again behind not just Mercedes but also a resurgent Red Bull and even Sergio Perez’s Force India on the streets of Monaco.
But boss Arrivabene denied that Ferrari is increasingly weak in 2016, “Only once have we not been on the podium, which is here.”
“I don’t want to go back over all the races, but we all know where and why we lost a lot of points and perhaps the chance of victory,” the Italian added.
“At the same time I do not want to give excuses. In Barcelona, we were just not good enough in Q3, and this was repeated here and we paid for it again in the race.”
Arrivabene said Ferrari’s problem is not some sort of ‘crisis’ but a matter of working on the setup so the car is always in Pirelli’s delicate tyre-operation “window”.
So when asked if the world championship is slowly slipping away, he insisted: “No! My responsibilities are to keep the team concentrated and focused as there are still 15 races to go which is plenty of time. But we need to find the reasons for the problem in the final qualifying session.”
Finally, Arrivabene defended Kimi Raikkonen at the end of a bad weekend for the Finn, whose contract is up for renewal at the end of the season.
“Each driver has tracks he does not like, and Kimi does not like Monaco even if he has won here. I see no reason why I should complain about Kimi — on other tracks he is driving as good as before,” he added.
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Marko: I don’t know when but Sainz will get his chance
While Daniil Kvyat’s place in the Red Bull future appears to be increasingly shaky, Carlos Sainz remains on track to progress.
That is the view of Helmut Marko, the chief of Red Bull’s controversial driver programme that is speeding Max Verstappen to F1 glory and putting Russian Kvyat’s future in jeopardy.
Now driving for Toro Rosso, Kvyat had a bad Sunday in Monaco, incurring a grid penalty for Canada in two weeks by crashing with Kevin Magnussen.
But his Spanish teammate Sainz, on the other hand, is still on track for a bright future, Marko told Movistar, “Carlos Sainz is doing a great job at Toro Rosso and I’m sure his chance will come. I don’t know when, but it will come.”
Some insiders believe that Red Bull could drop Kvyat at the end of the year in order to open a Toro Rosso seat for the next young hotshoe, Pierre Gasly.
“I’m not so pessimistic,” Igor Ermilin, a presidential advisor of the Russian automobile federation, told Ria Novosti news agency when considering Kvyat’s future.
“There are still 15 races, giving him the opportunity to demonstrate his talent, his ability to handle pressure and his desire to fight.
“I think he can prove that he still has a place in F1, all the more with the contracts of many drivers ending at the end of the season,” Ermilin added.
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Prost urges Renault to switch focus to 2017
Formula 1 legend Alain Prost thinks the time for Renault to switch its full focus to 2017 is now approaching.
The quadruple world champion, now an ambassador for the French carmaker and a paddock television pundit, hailed Renault for the improvements it has made to its power unit this year.
Prost was speaking in Monaco, where the Renault customer Red Bull was driven to pole by Daniel Ricciardo, who then only narrowly missed victory due to a pitstop bungle.
“This was an extremely fast turnaround by Renault,” Prost told Ouest France. “It’s pretty rare that it happened in a very calculated world like formula one. It can happen with something like aerodynamics but not so often with the engine. It’s good for the morale of the people working on the Renault project.”
On the other hand, Ricciardo’s Mercedes-beating pace in Monaco also demonstrated the shortcomings of the works Renault chassis, which is fitted with the same power unit, “It showed all the work that Renault must do with the chassis. Honestly, it’s a very big task.”
Team boss Frederic Vasseur has acknowledged that Renault has to work hard to get ready for 2017, but he also says the 2016 chassis will not be abandoned as it may affect the ‘competitive spirit’ of the Enstone based team.
“There is a choice to be made but it isn’t mine,” insisted Prost. “It’s a management decision. It is not easy but at some point, a decision has to be made. The important thing is to build for the future. This is precisely what Mercedes did for three years and then took advantage of the change in regulations.”
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