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Ad Stared Down
F1-Live.com 25 May
09 F1
drivers campaigned to have a huge billboard depicting an attractive
woman removed prior to Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix. The advertisement for
Martini stood right in the drivers' line of sight as they accelerated
out of the Loews hairpin and turned right. Race winner Jenson Button
admitted to the Bild newspaper: "Every time you passed her,
it was as though she was looking right at you."
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tell Mosley to tear up 2010 rules
F1-Live.com 25 May
09 As
night fell in Monaco and teams packed up after Sunday's Grand Prix, the
politics kept racing ahead. FIA President Max Mosley had been highly
visible in the paddock, telling reporters that a compromise was near.
But at the same time, a letter signed by every Team Principal was making
its way to the 69-year-old Briton, and its command was clear: tear up
the proposed 2010 rules or no FOTA member will meet Friday's deadline
for team entries.
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full of praise for Jenson Button
F1-Live.com 24 May
09 Jenson
Button had so much energy after winning the Monaco Grand Prix that he
managed to run the entire distance of the pit straight to get to the
podium ceremony in time. After winning the prestigious race, his fifth
from six starts so far in 2009, the Brawn driver mistakenly parked into
the pits, not further down the road on the straight where the top three
runners assemble for the festivities.
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Button eases to Monaco win
BBC.co.uk 24 May 09
Jenson Button took his fifth victory in six races this season as he led
Rubens Barrichello to a Brawn one-two in the Monaco Grand Prix. Button
sealed his victory in the early stages of the race, when he managed the
deteriorating tyres on his car far better than his Brazilian team-mate.
Barrichello was left to hold off the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and
Felipe Massa, who finished third and fourth. Red Bull's Mark Webber was
fifth with world champion Lewis Hamilton 12th. Williams's Nico Rosberg,
Renault's Fernando Alonso and the Toro Rosso of Frenchman Sebastien
Bourdais filled the remaining points places down to eighth place. Andrew
Benson.
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Albert: F1 can't afford to lose big names
Yahoo! 24 May
09
Prince Albert of Monaco has insisted that Formula 1 ‘cannot
afford to lose’ its major manufacturers like Ferrari and Renault
over the FIA’s controversial budget cap initiative – and is
optimistic that the ongoing row between the governing body and the
sport’s teams will not ultimately come to that.
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Monaco doubts for Bernie Ecclestone
F1-Live.com
23 May 09 Bernie
Ecclestone on Saturday played down speculation that this weekend's
famous Monaco Grand Prix could be one of the last in the
Principality. Recent reports suggested that race promoter Michel
Boeri would not seek an extension to the current contract should
Ferrari follow through its threat to quit the sport.
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takes gearbox change penalty
F1-Live.com 23 May 09 After crashing out of qualification, it
emerged that Hamilton's car not only sustained left rear
suspension damage, but also required a new gearbox. Hamilton
therefore incurs a gearbox change penalty and drops down to the
back of the field behind the struggling BMW Sauber and Toyota
teams.
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Button lands Monaco pole
BBC.co.uk 23
May 09
Championship leader Jenson Button landed the fourth pole position
of his sensational season after a dramatic Monaco Grand Prix
qualifying session. The Brawn GP driver came through late on to
pip Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen with a time of one minute 14.902
seconds. The session was a disaster for McLaren's world champion
Lewis Hamilton who will start in 16th after making a mistake to
crash out early on. Rubens Barrichello starts Sunday's race in
third for dominant Brawn. Chris
Whyatt.
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BBC
SPORT/FORMULA 1 |
Grand
Prix Monaco Site |
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F1-Live.com |
Automobile
Club de Monaco |
| Thursday
21 May 2009 |
Friday
22 May 2009 |
Saturday
23 May 2009 |
Sunday
24 May 2009 |
| 07:00am
Closure of track to road traffic |
07:00
Closure of
track to road traffic |
6:00am
Closure of
track to road traffic |
07:00
Closure of track to road traffic |
| 08:30am
to 09:15am Formula Renault 3.5
(Practice session) |
09:00am
to 10:15am Porsche
Mobil 1 Supercup (First qualifying session) |
09:00am
to 09:25am Formula
Renault 3.5 (Qualifying session - Even numbers) |
09:45am
to 10h15am Porsche Mobil 1 SuperCup (Course 16 laps) |
| 10:00am
to 11:30am Formula 1 (1st
practice session) |
11:15am
to 12:30am GP2
- First Race (45 laps or 75 mins) |
09:30am
to 09:55am Formula
Renault 3.5 (Qualifying session - Odd numbers) |
11:13am
to 12h00am Formula Renault 3.5 - (Course 25 laps) |
| 12:00pm
to 12:30pm GP2 (1st practice
session) |
13:30pm
Openning of
track to road traffic |
11:00am
to 12:00am Formula
1 - 3rd practice session |
12:30pm
Formule 1 - Drivers track parade |
| 14:00pm
to 15:30pm Formula 1 (2nd
practice session) |
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02:00pm
to 03:00pm Formula
1 - Qualifying session |
14:00pm
67th Monaco Grand Prix (78 laps) |
| 16:15pm
to 16:45pm Porsche Mobil 1
SuperCup (Practice session) |
04:00pm
to 04:45pm GP2
- (Course 45 laps) |
07:00pm
Openning of track to road traffic |
| 18:30pm
Openning of track to road traffic |
19:00pm
Openning of
track to road traffic |
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Times are likely to be modified. |
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Locals
are left in cold by the glitz of Monaco F1 Grand Prix
Belfast
Telegraph 22 May 09
As the Grand Prix nears, the cafes close, their view and access
obliterated by scaffolding. Not even the International School of
Monaco tries to compete on Grand Prix weekend. The school closes
down early for half-term because, as secretary Angela Godfrey
explains “We just cannot work while it is on. You cannot hear
yourself think for the noise.”
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A
Rebirth in Britain as a Driver Revives a Career and a Team
New York
Times 22 May 09
Whatever happens in Monaco, where Brawn is competing for its fifth
win in the season’s first six races, it is a story of another,
equally striking rebirth. Jenson Button, the 29-year-old
Englishman who is the team’s principal driver, alongside the
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, has won all four of the races Brawn
has taken this year, and finished third in the only race he
didn’t win. In nearly 60 years of the Formula One world
drivers’ championship, no driver who has won four of the first
five races has failed to win the crown. John
F. Burns.
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The
mystique of Monaco
The National
22 May 09
Chris de Burgh,the internationally renowned pop star,having just
flown in by private jet from a Save the Children Fund concert,
threaded his way through the celebrity-packed paddock formed up
alongside the quayside at the Monaco Grand Prix. The Irishman
side-stepped the throng surrounding Hollywood megastar Sylvester
Stallone who had travelled up the coast from the Cannes Film
Festival and nodded at Manchester United’s star footballer Ryan
Giggs. He adroitly avoided getting caught up in the melee of
cameramen and onlookers jostling around the movie actress Liz
Hurley. Ian
Ley.
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Even
Monaco F1 Race Feels The Pinch
PR-Inside.com
22 May 09
Stands are empty, hotel rooms available and tickets unsold.
Formula One's most glamorous race, the Monaco GP, is feeling the
pinch of the global financial crisis. AP.
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Rosberg
sets Monaco practice pace
BBC 21 May 09
Williams' Nico Rosberg set the day's fastest lap in the second
Monaco Grand Prix practice session as Brawn's Rubens Barrichello
went quickest in the first. McLaren's world champion Lewis
Hamilton showed some aggressive driving to post top-three lap
times in both sessions. Barrichello was also third in the second
session, just ahead of team-mate and championship leader Jenson
Button. Chris
Whyatt.
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I
Am A Boring B*****d
Mirror.co.uk
21 May 09 Jenson
Button admits Grand Prix domination has turned him into a right
bore. The 29-year-old is enjoying his season of superiority so
much he has ditched his fast-living playboy ways to focus on his
career. He arrives in his adopted Monaco hometown wielding a
14-point lead with the season not yet a third over. And he is
favourite to notch up win No.5 this Sunday on the Monte Carlo
streets. Byron
Young.
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