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Don't know whether he's right or just grasping for straws but he claimed Grosjean hit the brakes 10-15 meters earlier than usual. Brake check for the new guy.

Grosjean, assuming he's actually innocent of such, was quite diplomatic. Said something like 'it's very difficult to pass at Monaco, maybe he learned that lesson.'

 

I wish this was in English. Max Verstappen driving his Dad, Jos, around Monaco.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djcJbMtRCQM"]Max Verstappen doet rondje Monaco met vader Jos - YouTube[/ame]

 

Nico Rosberg thought Lewis Hamilton would still win Monaco GP (skysports.com)

 

I haven't seen anything and I've been looking. Seems like they may be too busy with that other little bugaboo to deal with what looked like a DRS issue. In fact, though, I still haven't even seen anything that indicated he actually had a DRS malfunction other than the comments from U.S. announcers.

 

Four arrested in Red Bull trophies robbery (motorsport.com)

 

From FP2 today.

 

Quali might be interesting. FP1 ran okay but FP2 was mostly washed out by rain and FP3 shortened by a couple red flags.

One of the FP3 red flags was caused by Nasr hitting the wall (video below). He went to the medical center for checks, I don't know how that turned out plus the team will have to scramble to get his car back together in time to qualify. Button stopped during FP3 and due to a resulting engine change (or change to some other part of the power unit, not sure which) he will miss quali again. Verstappen had an engine change, add the resulting 10-place grid penalty to his 5-place penalty from Monaco and he will drop 15 places after quali. So, he'll likely start dead last and, if there aren't 15 places for him to drop, there will be time penalties added to make up for it. Hamilton crashed in the rain in FP2 and didn't get in a good lap in FP3 where he ended 20th on the time sheet. I think Alonso had an engine change that kept him out of most of FP3.

There were probably more issues I'm not remembering right now but it all adds up to no one being happy with the amount of running they got in during practice and a number of effects on the grid.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHlhitjgiWw"]F1 2015 Canada Montreal - Felipe Nasr Crash FP3 RED FLAG - YouTube[/ame]

 

Button.

 

This may be the starting grid...still confusion over who is supposed to be where as result of penalties and 'official' grid to be announced 1 hr before race start. I think Button starts from pit lane?