FORMULA 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2006

The millonaires playground of Monaco has played host to the most colorful and glamorous race on the calendar, the Monaco Grand Prix, every year since 1955. In a place where every other road car you see is a Ferrari, the most famous track of them all is built every Spring through the streets of Monte Carlo. Armco-barriers line the track as there is not space for gravel traps and engineers have to weld in place any gratings on the roads as a passing F1 car would literally suck them up off the ground!

It's a tough race for the mechanics, as instead of having grades and trucks next to one another, the trucks and working areas are down the hill in the paddock, so the cars have to be pushed up to the pit-lane for every session. The pit-line is extremly hazardous in Monaco as it is verry narrow so the crew members have to on their guard the whole time. It is also particularly loud in the Monaco pit-line. Engineer on the pit-wall often have to resort to wearing ear plugs as well as their usual headsets as the noise from the cars blasting past deafening!

Most of today's F1 drivers have made their home in Monaco so this race is effectively held in their backyard. They all want to win this prestigious Grand Prix but first they must master what is an unforgiving and demanding track which requires the drivers to have nerves of steel. The car will run with very high levels of downforce in order to negociate the tight turns where average speed are low and very heavy braking is required. Nelson Piquet even gone as far to compare driving around Monaco track to 'riding a bicycle around your front room'!. A good qualifying position is imperative here as it is high on imposible to get past the car in front if the driver in it doesn't want you to!

Prior to the race at Monaco the teams seek out tracks of similar configuration to test on (testing is not posible at Monaco as the track is just built for the race) in preparation for this event. The most popular choices are Valencia in Spain and Nogaro in Southern France, both tight and twisty tracks.

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Race times
Pos	Driver	Time	*P*	Laps	Gap	Hotlap		Pts
1	Emiliano	1:02:53.897		47	0	1:15.931		0
2	Paul	1:03:31.224		47	+37.3	1:15.835		0
3	Althor_GP4	1:02:51.010	+1:39	47	-2.8	1:17.707		0
4	JHN	1:01:31.073		45	+2 Laps	1:18.253		0
5	Skymota	1:02:23.895		45	+2 Laps	1:17.995		0
6	fabrikart	1:01:01.862	-1(+1:46)	46	-1:52.0	1:15.152		0
7	curisam	1:01:48.037	-4(+1:52)	47	+4 Laps	1:16.277		0
8	cuest	55:38.965		42	+5 Laps	1:16.142		0
9	bruno	57:18.543		42	+5 Laps	1:18.355		0
10	davidmd	1:01:31.435	-2(+5)	44	+5 Laps	1:17.834		0
11	Dimaro	1:01:50.340	-5(+1:27)	45	+7 Laps	1:15.475		0
12	ciro178	1:03:01.675	-9(+11)	47	+9 Laps	1:16.561		0
13	AleMaineri	47:48.323		35	+12 Laps	1:15.686		0
14	Kaiser_46	42:47.396		33	+14 Laps	1:15.025		0
15	Pipo2005	38:14.774		29	+18 Laps	1:14.467		0
16	gabriel_ms	36:14.745		27	+20 Laps	1:18.187		0
17	quideco	33:15.959		24	+23 Laps	1:18.610		0
18	mamego	34:56.058		23	+24 Laps	1:19.502		0
19	dviejo	30:32.112		22	+25 Laps	1:17.024		0
20	Rexakosix	5:25.465		4	+43 Laps	1:17.361		0

Qualification times
		Sectors			Partials
Pos	Driver	S1	S2	S3	P1	P2	Time	*P*	Gap	F		Pts
1	Kaiser_46	20.9	27.9	26.5	20.913	48.875	1:15.393	0	0.000	15		0
2	Pipo2005	20.8	27.9	26.5	20.886	48.871	1:15.418	0	0.025	16		0
3	fabrikart	21.1	28.2	26.7	21.195	49.434	1:16.188	0	0.795	16		0
4	AleMaineri	21.2	28.2	26.7	21.248	49.484	1:16.232	0	0.839	16		0
5	Dimaro	21.2	28.4	26.8	21.211	49.680	1:16.487	0	1.094	25		0
6	Emiliano	21.4	28.3	26.8	21.440	49.761	1:16.585	0	1.192	15		0
7	JHN	21.7	28.3	27.5	21.752	50.147	1:17.670	0	2.277	18		0
8	Althor_GP4	21.5	29.1	27.0	21.585	50.711	1:17.759	0	2.366	24		0
9	Paul	21.6	28.5	27.5	21.613	50.200	1:17.774	0	2.381	24		0
10	ciro178	21.8	29.3	27.0	21.821	51.194	1:18.213	0	2.820	13		0
11	dviejo	21.4	29.4	27.4	21.446	50.868	1:18.312	0	2.919	17		0
12	bruno	22.2	28.9	27.3	22.237	51.140	1:18.485	0	3.092	17		0
13	davidmd	21.6	29.6	27.8	21.666	51.343	1:19.168	0	3.775	23		0
14	gabriel_ms	21.9	29.4	28.3	21.912	51.358	1:19.715	6	4.322	12		0
15	mamego	22.1	29.4	27.8	22.134	51.575	1:19.424	1:35	4.031	20		0
16	cuest	21.1	28.6	26.5	21.185	49.825	1:16.346	2:56	0.953	16		0
17	curisam	21.1	28.8	26.6	21.162	50.002	1:16.696	5:00	1.303	19		0
18	raka100	21.0	28.2	27.1	21.093	49.359	1:16.503	0	1.110	14		0
19	Skymota	21.3	28.9	27.2	21.392	50.328	1:17.582	0	2.189	18		0

Practice times
		Sectors			Partials
Pos	Driver	S1	S2	S3	P1	P2	Time	Gap
1	Kaiser_46	20.2	27.3	25.4	20.274	47.601	1:13.064	+0.000
2	Pipo2005	20.5	27.3	25.7	20.544	47.923	1:13.642	+0.578
3	raka100	20.5	27.6	25.8	20.516	48.144	1:13.945	+0.881
4	AleMaineri	20.8	27.4	25.8	20.822	48.268	1:14.094	+1.030
5	Paul	20.5	27.7	25.9	20.531	48.294	1:14.244	+1.180
6	fabrikart	20.3	28.0	25.8	20.360	48.402	1:14.249	+1.185
7	Dimaro	20.6	28.0	26.1	20.617	48.618	1:14.802	+1.738
8	Emiliano	20.6	28.2	25.9	20.652	48.888	1:14.805	+1.741
9	curisam	20.8	28.4	25.8	20.814	49.277	1:15.121	+2.057
10	cuest	20.9	28.4	25.9	20.903	49.394	1:15.362	+2.298
11	ciro178	20.7	28.4	26.4	20.781	49.250	1:15.705	+2.641
12	davidmd	20.8	28.2	26.7	20.841	49.134	1:15.881	+2.817
13	JHN	21.1	28.4	26.3	21.117	49.549	1:15.909	+2.845
14	Skymota	20.8	28.1	27.0	20.803	48.923	1:15.931	+2.867
15	Althor_GP4	20.7	28.8	26.4	20.794	49.635	1:16.130	+3.066
16	dviejo	21.4	28.5	26.5	21.428	49.970	1:16.540	+3.476
17	mamego	20.7	28.4	27.6	20.724	49.206	1:16.853	+3.789
18	gabriel_ms	21.8	28.3	26.7	21.820	50.168	1:16.883	+3.819
19	bruno	21.7	28.4	26.9	21.708	50.130	1:17.082	+4.018
20	caspita	20.6	28.8	26.3	20.632	49.467	1:15.781	+2.717