Sauber: Safety car helps Kobayashi to best finish | 2011 Monaco GP team review

30 May 2011 by Keith Collantine

Sauber had only one car in the race after Sergio Perez was hospitalised on Saturday.

	Kamui Kobayashi[1]	Sergio Perez[2]
Qualifying position	13	10
Qualifying time comparison (Q2)	1?15.973 (+0.491)	1?15.482
Race position	5
Laps	78/78	0/78
Pit stops	2

Sauber drivers? lap times throughout the race (in seconds):

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2011drivercolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78
Kamui Kobayashi	96.472	83.874	82.856	82.614	82.222	81.838	81.833	81.661	81.282	82.011	81.852	81.981	81.944	81.631	82.044	81.952	81.492	81.324	81.565	81.953	81.934	81.443	81.172	81.614	82.467	81.611	81.776	81.898	81.975	82.363	82.077	83.135	82.172	119.4	105.72	88.464	91.893	114.166	84.694	83.246	82.923	81.764	81.379	81.562	81.182	81.212	81.386	81.196	80.962	80.549	80.468	80.819	80.449	80.586	80.341	80.461	80.28	80.347	80.331	80.943	81.578	81.236	81.421	82.623	80.971	80.451	80.46	79.913	104.927	102.204	95.242		121.284	84.769	80.959	78.308	80.818	78.96

Kamui Kobayashi, Sauber, Monaco, 2011

Kamui Kobayashi

Starting on soft tyres and running long on his first stint worked perfectly as Kobayashi was able to pit when the safety car came out for the first time, leaving him in fifth place.

He tried to pass Adrian Sutil^[3] for fourth on lap 64, knocked the Force India wide and took the place, for which the stewards later gave him a reprimand.

On the penultimate lap he cut the chicane while Mark Webber^[4] tried to pass, and yielded the position immediately as they ran towards Tabac.

Even so fifth place, with Hamilton on his tail, was the best result of his career so far.

Kamui Kobayashi 2011 form guide^[5]

Sergio Perez

Up until his accident, Perez had beaten his team mate for the fourth time out of six in qualifying and reached Q3 for the first time.

But on his first flying lap on super-soft tyres in the final session he crashed heavily at the chicane, suffering concussion which kept him out of the race.

He was released from hospital two days later with no broken bones.

Sergio Perez 2011 form guide^[6]

2011 Monaco Grand Prix

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References

1. ^{^} Kamui Kobayashi (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
2. ^{^} Sergio Perez (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
3. ^{^} Adrian Sutil (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
4. ^{^} Mark Webber (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
5. ^{^} Kamui Kobayashi 2011 form guide (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
6. ^{^} Sergio Perez 2011 form guide (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
7. ^{^} Browse all 2011 Monaco Grand Prix articles (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)

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