Preview Monaco GP: the most awaited Grand Prix is here

No time to rest after the Spanish Grand Prix as the F1 circus immediately makes its bags to head to the most exciting and awaited venue of the season: Monaco. The luxury of the Mediterranean city of Monte Carlo is one of the favourite venues of the pilots…we wonder why?

After five races the same question is on, can Sebastian Vettel and the RB7 be beaten. Until now the German is completely dominating the championship and he surely wouldn’t mind to have a spicier and more disputed contest.

As always, all teams will have specifically developed aero parts for their cars to generate the huge amounts of downforce needed to find grip around the tight bends of the Monegasque city circuit.

In Monaco we will be curious to see what the new regulations may bring to the Monte Carlo circuit, where overtaking is extremely difficult because of the narrow track. Will Pirelli tyres and DRS have a word to say on the final result?

There was much discussion about the DRS location in Monaco, and its exclusion was on the table as drivers opposed to the placing of DRS zone in the tunnel. It was then moved to the start/finish straight. We will have to wait to see if it will bring any advantage to drivers.

As for the tyres, Pirelli will bring to Monaco their soft ‘yellow’ tyre, but for the first time it will be the prime tyre rather than the option. Making its first appearance this season are the super soft red tyres which offer a huge amount of grip but should only last for about ten laps.

Thanks to the tyres we should definitely have many stops and many changes in positioning throughout the race, thanks to a wide variety of strategies brought to the race by the teams.

So we will have everyone in Monaco trying to beat the Red Bulls that will be trying to repeat the success of last year when Webber won ahead of Sebastian Vettel. The world champion has never won in Monte Carlo, but considering the form he is in at the moment, maybe he will have his first taste of victory there.

Qualifying should definitely be one of the focuses for McLaren. The team has already shown that they can fight with the RB7, but still they haven’t been able to match the Red Bulls in qualifying, which is of extreme importance in Monaco.

Ferrari and Mercedes have promised improvements for this weekend, and we should definitely not put away the possibility of a surprise winner as it happened with Jarno Trulli in 2004, Olivier Panis in 1996.

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