Force India drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta found themselves in the middle of a competitive field during qualifying in Monaco today, and qualified eleventh and fifteenth respectively for tomorrow’s grand prix. Thanks to a penalty for Pastor Maldonado, the two drivers will actually start from tenth and fourteenth.
There were contrasting fortunes for the two Red Bull drivers during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix: Mark Webber was second fastest but inherits pole position from Michael Schumacher, who serves a five-place grid penalty; Sebastian Vettel, on the other hand, chose not to set a time during Q3, and qualified only tenth.
Pastor Maldonado gave both his team and the race stewards some extra work to do today in Monte Carlo as he managed to heavily damage his car before qualifying and earn himself a ten-place grid penalty.
With Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa qualifying sixth and seventh for tomorrow’s Monaco Grand Prix, Ferrari got both cars into top-ten grid positions for the first time this season, and secured the best team qualifying result of the 2012 campaign so far.
Both Lotus drivers said that they had not qualified as far up the grid as they had hoped or expected today in Monaco in a close-fought session.
The two Marussia drivers had contrasting qualifying sessions today in Monaco. Although Timo Glock and Charles Pic were separated by only two places in qualifying – P20 and P22 respectively – their moods after the session, at least those conveyed by their analysis, were markedly different.
Marlon Stockinger scored his first GP3 Series win from pole position in a Race 2 in Monaco that was red-flagged early following a scary crash for Conor Daly.
Jolyon Palmer put his dreadful start to the GP2 season behind him and claimed his first win after a chaotic start to the Monaco sprint race.
Michael Schumacher came out on top in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix but the five-place grid penalty that he carries over from the last race in Barcelona will hand the pole position to Mark Webber.
Nico Rosberg of Mercedes was fastest in the final practice session for the Monaco Grand Prix with the lap of 1:15.159.
After victory in the ILMC LMP2 class and competing at 24 Hours of Le Mans last year Lucas Ordonez added another legendary endurance race to his racing CV as part of the Team GT Academy team at the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
In the car’s racing debut the Carvell Motorsport team of Rob Carvell, Nathan Freke and Colin White won their class at the Nurburgring 24 Hours driving a Jaguar XF-S.
Alain Menu will play the part of comic book character Michel Vaillant at the next World Touring Car Championship round in Portugal.
The 2012 Race Of Champions will take place in Bangkok, it was announced on Friday.
Without doubt, Californian rookie Josef Newgarden has been one of the revelations of the Indycar season so far. The likeable 21-year-old is among the dark horses to win Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, and starts as the highest placed Honda runner in a top-9 monopolised by Chevrolets for Sarah Fisher Racing on the inside of row three.
John Hopkins will make his return from injury at this weekend’s World Superbike meeting at Miller Motorsport Park in Salt Lake City
Josh Brookes is aiming to continue his impressive start to the 2012 British Superbike Championship at the Snetterton 300 circuit this weekend
