McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button have both expressed concern over traffic levels at this weekend’s Monaco GP after the idea to split qualifying was scrapped.
Hamilton lapped the slow Virgin of Di Grassi four times in Spain, and narrowly avoided a collision as he left the pitlane and re-joined ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
“It’s just very difficult when there is such a big difference. I lapped Di Grassi four times in Spain,” the Telegraph quote the Brit as saying. “That’s one of the biggest gaps I’ve had in Formula One.
“You catch them so quick, it’s unreal. When you see them you are second guessing where they will move out of the way, and then they move into the wrong position. They’ll go on the inside and be in the corner as you come up to them, so it gets quite tricky. So far, fortunately, there have been no incidents and it has been OK, but Monaco will be very tough. It could be a disaster.”
Jenson Button agreed with his McLaren teammate, saying the traffic could ‘be a nightmare’ in the principality.
“When they are fighting for 20th place they don’t want to let you past,” he said. “They are so much slower than us and if you are behind them for four or five corners you have lost seconds. I know they want to race but the important thing is that they let us past.”
