Monaco Grand Prix – Final Practice Results

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The final practice session at Monaco this morning proved to be a productive one for Kimi and Romain, with a good number of laps completed and some useful data gathered on the super soft tyres. The countdown is on to a crucial qualifying session this afternoon…

As the sun beat down on the Monaco paddock, Kimi and Romain flew out of the traps for their install laps moments after the green flags were waved; each on a fresh set of yellow marked soft compound Pirelli tyres.

Kimi remained on track for an early 10 lap stint, the Finn setting the first time of the day as he made up for the time lost in Free Practice 1 on Thursday morning. Romain meanwhile emerged shortly afterwards, firing his E20 straight to the top of the time sheets where it remained until the halfway stage of the session.

With 30 minutes remaining, Romain still occupied P1 with Kimi in P8 as both drivers emerged once more from the pits, this time on matching sets of the super soft tyres. A second and final run on the same scrubbed rubber for both followed, with 10 (Kimi) and 5 (Romain) minutes left to run.

Red flags halted the session a few minutes earlier than scheduled, with Kimi ending the morning in P12 with a fastest time of 1:16.301 from 21 laps, while Romain’s best effort of 1:15.445 from 18 laps saw him occupy P5.

Pos--Driver-------------Team------------------Time-------Gap-----Laps
 1.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes              1m15.159s            25
 2.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari               1m15.197s  + 0.038s  21
 3.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault      1m15.209s  + 0.050s  20
 4.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari               1m15.210s  + 0.051s  20
 5.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault         1m15.445s  + 0.286s  18
 6.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m15.471s  + 0.312s  19
 7.  Lewis Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      1m15.734s  + 0.575s  19
 8.  Michael Schumacher  Mercedes              1m15.893s  + 0.734s  23
 9.  Sergio Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m16.110s  + 0.951s  14
10.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault      1m16.219s  + 1.060s  19
11.  Jean-Eric Vergne    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m16.226s  + 1.067s  20
12.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault         1m16.301s  + 1.142s  21
13.  Kamui Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari        1m16.311s  + 1.152s  19
14.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m16.479s  + 1.320s  20
15.  Nico Hulkenberg     Force India-Mercedes  1m17.027s  + 1.868s  20
16.  Bruno Senna         Williams-Renault      1m17.055s  + 1.896s  26
17.  Heikki Kovalainen   Caterham-Renault      1m17.276s  + 2.117s  25
18.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes  1m17.390s  + 2.231s  19
19.  Vitaly Petrov       Caterham-Renault      1m17.404s  + 2.245s  22
20.  Timo Glock          Marussia-Cosworth     1m18.259s  + 3.100s  18
21.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault      1m18.488s  + 3.329s  22
22.  Charles Pic         Marussia-Cosworth     1m19.099s  + 3.940s  17
23.  Narain Karthikeyan  HRT-Cosworth          1m19.147s  + 3.988s  19
24.  Pedro de la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth          1m19.151s  + 3.992s  19