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It was interesting weekend in Monaco. What a pity that the rain that mixed up the free practice on Saturday did not last till the qualifying session …
The domination of McLarens did not come as a big surprise. The test in Paul Ricard indicated that the silver cars are best suited for this tight track. [...]

Little bit later this time, there are better things to do in Monaco after the race than write blog
1) F. Alonso – McLaren – 1:40:29.329
2) L. Hamilton – McLaren + 4.095
3) F. Massa – Ferrari + 1:09.114
4) G. Fisichella – Renault + 1 laps
5) R. Kubica – BMW + 1 laps
6) N. Heidfeld [...]

Looking at results in past 10 years, one must say, this is not most favourite track for Ferrari. They only won 3 times with last win in 2001 (1-2 finish though). McLaren recorded 4 wins here, 2 of them courtesy of David Coulthard. DC also gave Red Bull their first podium last year in Monaco. [...]

The times of the second day of testing are probably more accurate display of the current form. McLaren and Ferrari evenly matched, then a bit of a gap, and then 6 cars without too much between them. Yesterday saw a return of Sebastien Bourdais. Being only a second slower than Wurz, Schumacher and Barrichello in [...]

All the teams are back to work at the Paul Ricard test track. The Monaco style track configuration is used this week as the teams prepare for next weekend race.
James Rossiter ran for Super Aguri for the first time after his switch from Honda. Reanult, Honda, Spyker and BMW also used their test drivers yesterday. [...]

So, it is becoming a tradition:
Felipe Massa

Michael Schumacher

The qualifying results and the grid positions did not help much to make this race predictable. McLarens are still behind Ferrari on the race distance, but they can match them pretty closely on one lap pace. Both Alonso and Hamilton are pretty good starters. So we had 4 very closely matched cars close together on [...]