Finally! In the fifth season, has gained Marussia team points in Formula 1. Everyone heaved a sigh of relief. "After winning the overall tenth place in Brazil, we celebrated a lot, but wait today!" laughing with team boss John Booth.
The team started in Formula 1 as Virgin Racing, and then changed in 2011 to Marussia Virgin Racing. After the majority of owners, Russian automaker Marussia, pushed in the name of Marussia F1 Team. "It's been five long years, but today we are in seventh heaven, "said Booth.
Jules Bianchi finished the Grand Prize at the ninth and scored two straight points. For the French it is the first such success in his career. In the race but it was not at all easy.
Bianchi on Saturday was to qualify for nineteenth place. Due to the penalty for replacement gear but the race started to like at the start of the twenty-first and not from seeing. Throughout the Grand Prix but gradually moved forward.
Bianchi was the fastest of the four horsemen Marussia and Caterham that the two worst teams in Formula 1 that the show came together in 2010. Monaco superiority over its direct competitors confirmed in the 36th round when he could overtake experienced Kamui Kobayashi in Caterham. He caught it in the corner of La Rascasse.
This meant for him to thirteenth place, which was still far behind the body, and then he helped the series of outages riders in front of it. He jumped to tenth place and eleven laps to go; it seemed that passes checkered flag as the last rider scoring. But then came the bad news - for poorly executed five-second pit stop, he was given the wrong position at the start, was to be his final time attributed to five seconds. Eleventh Romain Grosjean was close, so the virtual sequence in the target was at that moment to eleven.
Vettel was again unlucky
Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull second car was out of luck. Soon after the start he had to defect to the Electricity boxes. "Come on, guys. We tried everything," complained a frustrated German rider. After a long pit stop he returned to the track as the last, but then complained that he could not sort, and on the eighth lap of the race it is terminated.
According to Red Bull went well in qualifying as a problem with the kinetic energy recovery unit. "How do I get out of this? Ship here anymore, but I will try to get away as quickly as possible home," said Vettel after its 100th anniversary race for Red Bull. The reigning world champion is to another loss this year. Chance for the title already moved in theory. In the championship dropped from fourth to sixth place.
He helped him but it was unfortunate race for the Finnish racer Kimi Räikkönen. He goes terribly wrong when overtaking maneuver shut ranking of walls not only themselves, but also Kevin Magnussen with McLaren. Both were suddenly behind Bianchi and he could rejoice in the ninth partitions.
"Finally a point!", BBC reporter yelled before. "We have waited so long and now it's here. Thank the team that prepared the car so well. Despite three penalties have a point, it's amazing and it shows how unpredictable Monaco," smiled Bianchi.
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