Only a few hours left before the traffic lights go out and the start of the Monaco Grand Prix. Formula 1 stops at the Principality track for one of the most glamorous weekends of the season. Verstappen starts in front of everyone, followed by Fernando Alonso and Esteban Or with. Only sixth Charles Leclerc who hopes for some twist that even one wrong strategy can give away.
Pirelli, one-stop strategy favored in Monaco
Coming precisely to the possible strategy to be implemented, Pirelli suggests the option a stopover. On a track where overtaking is almost impossible, the fastest strategy for the Grand Prix involves a single stop, possibly as far forward as possible along the 78 scheduled laps. On paper the drivers should mount on the grid the medium P Zero Yellows and change them between the twentieth and twenty-fifth lap with the hard P Zero Whites to be the fastest. Another possibility is given by start on Soft and change to Hard between the fifteenth and twentieth lap, with the possibility of inverting the two compounds.
Isola: "Qualifying was great"
To present the race of the seventh round of the season, there was no shortage the words of the head of the motorsport area of Pirelli Mario Isola"One of the qualifications the most spectacular and uncertain in the recent history of Formula 1 was the one we saw yesterday in Monte-Carlo, closely fought from the first to the last minute. It was already seen in Friday's free practice that the gaps on this track would be very small and this was further confirmed in qualifying. In Q1 the top 15 riders were within 668 thousandths, in Q2 there were 469 thousandths between the first and tenth and in Q3 we had the top four riders, belonging to four different teams, in a space of time no longer than 168 thousandths. Congratulations to all twenty riders on the track who gave us an incredible spectacle and emotions, always driving at the limit throughout the session".
“There can hardly be various strategies”
“From a technical point of view, we had confirmation of the versatility of the Soft compound which made it possible to do more timed laps, interspersed with a cooling lap. The track evolved significantly throughout the day and within each session, which added even more uncertainty. Usually the Monaco Grand Prix offers the pinnacle of excitement on Saturdays but we can't wait to find out if that tradition can be broken. There will hardly be surprises from the point of view of strategies: the single stop is obligatory, with the Hard clearly indicated as the compound that will be the protagonist. There may be more uncertainties about which tire may be chosen for the start: on the one hand the Soft certainly offers more grip at the start, on the other the Medium increases the window of use and the possibility of better managing any neutralisations".
