Monaco is the preening face of Formula One which is the only reason it has survived practically unchanged while the other great courses have been warped almost beyond recognition. It’s a short twisty funnel of doom where you start where you finish unless you park.
And by park I mean flaming chunks of twisted metal or mechanical failure.
The study of entrophy is hugely depressing-
The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations – then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation – well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
The thing about young people is that each slice of their existence represents such a large portion of the whole. It takes close study or direct comparison to detect the decline.
Nothing is what it was and implosion is never far away. We circle the drain. The makeup is cracking and the surgeon repaired throat wattles…
Well, wattling.
But the point is the decaying facade of western civilization is on display today.
‘I think it’s time I was thinking of getting back to New York. Let’s have a meal somewhere and I can phone the airline for plane times. What day is it, we seem to have lost a weekend. I need a drink.’
‘You need a lynching. You’ve upset my friends and I haven’t written a goddamn word. I’ve been too busy looking after you. Your work here is done. I can never come back here again. This whole thing will probably finish me as a writer. I have no story.’
‘Well I know we got a bit pissed and let things slip a bit but there’s lots of colour. Lots happened.’
‘Holy Shit! You scumbag! This is Kentucky, not Skid Row. I love these people. They are my friends and you treated them like scum.’
Pretty tables to come.
Pretty tables done.
Starting Grid
| Grid | Driver | Team | Q-Time | Q-Laps |
| 1 | Mark Webber | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 1:14.381 | 19 |
| 2 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:14.448 | 21 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:14.583 | 20 |
| 4 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 1:14.639 | 27 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:14.948 | 22 |
| 6 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:14.301 | 22 |
| 7 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:15.049 | 19 |
| 8 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus-Renault | 1:15.199 | 28 |
| 9 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | No time | 24 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 1:15.421 | 17 |
| 11 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:15.508 | 19 |
| 12 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:15.536 | 18 |
| 13 | Bruno Senna | Williams-Renault | 1:15.709 | 20 |
| 14 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 1:15.718 | 14 |
| 15 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR-Ferrari | 1:15.878 | 19 |
| 16 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Ferrari | 1:16.885 | 14 |
| 17 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham-Renault | 1:16.538 | 13 |
| 18 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham-Renault | 1:17.404 | 13 |
| 19 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Renault | 1:15.245 | 22 |
| 20 | Timo Glock | Marussia-Cosworth | 1:17.947 | 11 |
| 21 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT-Cosworth | 1:18.096 | 11 |
| 22 | Charles Pic | Marussia-Cosworth | 1:18.476 | 12 |
| 23 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT-Cosworth | 1:19.310 | 8 |
| 24 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | No time | 2 |
Driver Standings
| Rank | Driver | Team | Points |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 61 |
| 2 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 61 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 53 |
| 4 | Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus-Renault | 49 |
| 5 | Mark Webber | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 48 |
| 6 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 45 |
| 7 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 41 |
| 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 35 |
| 9 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Renault | 29 |
| 10 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | 22 |
| 11 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 19 |
| 12 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 15 |
| 13 | Bruno Senna | Williams-Renault | 14 |
| 14 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Ferrari | 4 |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 3 |
| 16 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR-Ferrari | 2 |
| 17 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 2 |
| 18 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 2 |
Constructor Standings
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 109 |
| 2 | McLaren-Mercedes | 98 |
| 3 | Lotus-Renault | 84 |
| 4 | Ferrari | 63 |
| 5 | Mercedes | 43 |
| 6 | Williams-Renault | 43 |
| 7 | Sauber-Ferrari | 41 |
| 8 | Force India-Mercedes | 18 |
| 9 | STR-Ferrari | 6 |
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Comparing it to Apollo 13.
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Perfection (might rain).
Familiar faces.
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Webber
Rosberg
Hamilton
Alonso
Massa
Vettel
Raikkonen
Schumacher
Hulkenberg
Senna
de la Rosa
Maldonado
Grojean out
Petrov in the pits.
Boom.
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Hamilton
Alonso
Massa
Vettel
Raikkonen
Schumacher
Hulkenberg
Senna
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Damage.
I imagine it in French- Da Maage!
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Alonso
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Or not.
Vettel on Inters.
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Rain? What Rain?
But Mark Weber did win driving for Red Bull followed by just six tenths of a second by Nico Rosberg in a Mercedes and 0.9 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari.