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• FOTA Member Teams Sign up for 2010 Season – Press Release http://grandprixtv.net/video.aspx?id=207 #

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• BMW dismisses Heidfeld exit rumours – Seriously BMW’s current problems are hardly related to their drivers – http://tinyurl.com/pqgogp #
• Cirebox’s view of the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix! – The Renault F1 team cartoonist puts a comic spin on Monaco 09 – http://tinyurl.com/pn8x66 #
• Button To Crash £10M Club – “fans would most like to see is Button partnering Hamilton at McLaren.” – Seriously? – http://tinyurl.com/oa5mdq #
• Williams suspended from teams’ association – FOTA is suddenly looking venerable. http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/5/9412.html #

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• She’s Looking At You Kid – Martini Advert Causes Havok In Monaco – http://tinyurl.com/omqy6l #
• Kovalainen Out, Rosberg In At McLaren? – The rumor mill is abuzz with news of Rosberg replacing Kovalainen http://tinyurl.com/p2vh2n #

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Pos  Driver        Team                      Time
 1.  Button        Brawn GP-Mercedes       1h40:44.282
 2.  Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes       +     7.666
 3.  Raikkonen     Ferrari                 +    13.443
 4.  Massa         Ferrari                 +    15.110
 5.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault        +    15.730
 6.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota         +    33.586
 7.  Alonso        Renault                 +    37.839
 8.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari      +  1:03.142
 9.  Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes    +  1:05.040
10.  Glock         Toyota                  +     1 lap
11.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber              +     1 lap
12.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes        +     1 lap
13.  Trulli        Toyota                  +     1 lap
14.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes    +     1 lap
15.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota         +    2 laps


Retirements:

Driver        Team                    On lap
Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes          52
Kubica        BMW Sauber                31
Vettel        Red Bull-Renault          16
Piquet        Renault                   11
Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari        11


Fastest lap: Massa, 1:15.154

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• Beyonce taking driving lessons from Hamilton- Ah well at least something memorable for the Briton this weekend http://tinyurl.com/po7mou #
• Theissen: BMW must improve quickly – They must, considering that they gave on last years championship for this one http://tinyurl.com/ps23gq #
• Teams demand FIA ditch 2010 rules – With the deadline for signing up fast approaching, something has to give http://tinyurl.com/r48h93 #
• Williams applies for 2010 championship – We should soon be hearing about changes to the budget cap for 2010 http://tinyurl.com/oogzb7 #

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• Pre-race weights & provisional grid – http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/5/9393.html #
• Hamilton to start from back of grid – More problems for the current world champ http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75562 #
• 30 min to go to the most glamorous race of the season. #
• Mc Laren and Ferrari will be the only cars using KERS this weekend. #
• Lewis Hamilton will be starting at the race on 20th. He received a gearbox change penalty #
• #f1 Getting knocked out early in quali might workout for #lewis He now has more sets of super soft tyres than his rivals #
• Race about to start #
• #f1 No incidents at the first corner. Barrichello leap frogs Raikkonen and Piquet moves up a couple of places #
• #f1 Monaco – Lap 4 – BUT BAR RAI VET MAS ROS KOV WEB ALO NAK PIQ BUE BOU SUT FIS HEI HAM TRU GLO KUB #
• #F1 Vettle is now 17s behind the top 3. losing almost 4s a lap! #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 11 – BUT BAR RAI ROS MAS KOV WEB ALO NAK BOU FISI HEI VET TRU GLO KUB SUT HAM – Ret – PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 20 – BUT WEB BAR RAI ALO MAS ROS NAK BOU FISI HEI TRU GLO KUB HAM SUT – Ret – VET PIQ BUE #
• #F1 Lap 27 – Alonso and Nakajima are the two drivers who qualified in the top 10 yet to pit. Alonso is 4th and Nakajima 9th #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 31 – BUT BAR RAI MAS WEB ROS KOV NAK BOU FISI ALO HEI TRU GLO HAM SUT KUB – Ret – VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 39/78 – BUT BAR RAI MAS WEB ROS KOV BOU FISI ALO HEI NAK TRU GLO HAM SUT – Ret – KUB VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 39/78 – BUT MAS WEB BAR ROS ALO BOU FISI NAK GLO HEI TRU HAM SUT – Ret – KOV KUB VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Fernando Alonso the fastest car on the track as he chases the Red Bull of Mark Webber #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 65/78 – BUT BAR RAI MAS WEB ALO ROS BOU FIS NAK HEI GLO TRU HAM SUT – Ret – KOV KUB VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 71/78 – BUT BAR RAI MAS WEB ROS ALO BOU FIS NAK GLO HEI HAM TRU SUT – Ret – KOV KUB VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 With 6 laps to go the race order seems mostly settled. The only unknown is when the super softs of the Ferraris will start graining #
• #f1 Alonso sets the fastest 3rd sector of the race. He is the fastest car on track by almost 1.1s #
• #f1 4 laps to go – Closest battles on track P3 Rai – P4 Mas (+2s), P6 Ros – P7 Alo (+3.0s) P8 Bou – P9 Fis(+1.7s) P12 Hei – P13 Ham (+0.5s) #
• #f1 Monaco Lap 76/78 – BUT BAR RAI MAS WEB ROS ALO BOU FIS NAK GLO HEI HAM TRU SUT – Ret – KOV KUB VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Jenson Button wins his the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix. Barrichello – 2nd, Raikkonen – 3rd, Massa – 4th #
• #f1 “Monaco Baby Yeah!” – Jenson Button #
• #f1 2009 Monaco Grand Prix – Results – BUT BAR RAI MAS WEB ROS ALO BOU FIS GLO HEI HAM TRU SUT NAK – Ret – KOV KUB VET PIQ BUE #
• #f1 Hamilton finishes his worst race at Monaco to date. The Champion never looked threatening. #
• #f1 Ferrari takes its first podium of 2009. Massa finishes 4th making this the best result for the Italian team #
• #f1 Drivers’ championship – BUT 51 BAR 35 VET 23 WEB 19.5 TRU 14.5 GLO 12 ALO 11 RAI 9 HAM 9 MAS 8 ROS 7.5 HEI 6 KOV 4 BUE 3 BOU 2 #

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The Grid for the 2009 Grand Prix of Monaco -

1. Jenson Button, Brawn GP, 1′14.902
2. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1′14.927
3. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 1′15.077
4. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 1′15.271
5. Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 1′15.437
6. Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota, 1′15.455
7. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes, 1′15.516
8. Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault, 1′15.653
9. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 1′16.009
10. Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota, 1′17.344
11. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari, 1′15.833
12. Nelson Piquet Jnr, Renault, 1′15.837
13. Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes, 1′16.146
14. Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari, 1′16.281
15. Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes, 1′16.545
16. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes, 1′16.264
17. Nick Heidfeld, BMW, 1′16.264
18. Robert Kubica, BMW, 1′16.405
19. Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 1′16.548
20. Timo Glock, Toyota, 1′16.788

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• F1 teams unite in pull-out threat – FOTA is united to get the 40m budget cap scrapped http://tinyurl.com/pekov6 #
• #f1 #monaco Grand Prix De Monaco FP3 Results – Alonso fastest followed closely by Button and Heikki. Ferraris are 5th and 6th. #
• #f1 #monaco Grand Prix De Monaco FP3 Results – ALO BUT KOV BAR MAS RAI HAM VET ROS WEB NAK SUT BOU FIS PIQ BUE GLO KUB HEI TRU #
• #f1 Hamilton crashes and stops on track. He is currently 7th with 8min to go in Q1 #
• #f1 Q1 session Red flagged. 8min 07sec remaining in the session #
• #f1 most runners are trying to save the soft tyre for later in quali. #
• #f1 Hamilton had set the fastest first sector before skidding twice and touching the barrier. The car stopped and he stepped out. #
• #f1 Current positions in Q1 – BAR, BUT, VET, RAI, NAK, SUT, HAM, KOV, ROS, WEB, MAS, PIQ, TRU, ALO, GLO, BUE, KUB, FIS, BOU, HEI #
• #f1 Bourdais knocks out Hamilton in Q1 #
• #f1 Lewis Hamilton will start the 2009 Grand Prix of Monaco in row 8! #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Q1 Results – ROS BUT WEB MAS BAR KOV RAI BUE ALO VET NAK PIQ FIS BOU SUT HAM HEI KUB TRU GLO #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Q1 Eliminated cars – HAM HEI KUB TRU GLO #
• #F1 Rosberg sets the fastest lap(1m15.094s) of the weekend in Q1 beating Alonso’s fastest in FP3 (1m15.164s) #
• #f1 5 min into Q2 – Alonso is the only driver still to go out on track. #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Q2 – Raikkonen pips Kovalainen for the fastest lap #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Q1 Results – RAI KOV WEB BAR ROS VET MAS BUT ALO NAK BUE PIQ FIS BOU SUT #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Q2 Cars Eliminated – BUE PIQ FIS BOU SUT #
• #f1 If PIQ had finished the lap he spun on, he would have managed to qualify in P10. That spin cost him a shot at Q3 #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Button Takes pole in style! #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification – Button’s Q3 lap was 0.1s faster than his Q2 lap! #
• #f1 Grand Prix of Monaco – Qualification Results – BUT RAI BAR VET MAS ROS KOV WEB ALO NAK #
• #f1 In the last 10 years, 9 of the drivers starting on Pole went on to win the race. Smart money would be on the Brawn of Jenson Button. #
• #f1 Alonso and Nakajima look to be heavily fueled. A long safety car period in the first stint would throw the race in their favor #
• RT @f1fanatic_co_uk Ross Brawn claims they’ve got 20 laps of fuel #

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• Tyre strategy key to Monaco qualifying – Bridgestone explain http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2009/5/9382.html #

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• Mosley accuses Ferrari of placing its own interests above those of the sport as a whole. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75444 #
• #f1 Barrichello goes fastest in first free practice session at Monaco. Massa is second followed by Hamilton. #
• #F1 #monaco Monaco GP FP1 Results: BAR MAS HAM KOV RAI NAK ROS BUT ALO WEB BUE PIQ VET BOU FIS KUB HEI SUT GLO TRU #
• #f1 Rosberg goes fastest in FP2 at Monaco. Hamilton second with Brawns of Barrichello and Button, third and fourth. #
• #f1 #monaco #grandprix #formulaone Monaco FP2 Results: ROS HAM BAR BUT MAS VET KOV RAI NAK PIQ ALO WEB SUT TRU BUE BOU HEI GLO FIS KUB #

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