Monaco: Words and hats may have to be eaten along with the usual canapes and caviar if Lewis Hamilton wins the glamour race of the Formula One season in Monaco this weekend.
The sceptics who doubted McLaren's 2008 world champion would stand on top of the podium this season after his move to Mercedes face a moment of truth with Hamilton's team arriving in the Mediterranean principality on the back of three pole positions in a row.
Mercedes have faded in races so far, unable to control their car's insatiable appetite for tyres on a Sunday afternoon, but Monaco's tight and treacherous streets are kinder on the compounds.
Hamilton, a winner in what is now his home in 2008, loves the historic circuit that winds up through Casino square and blasts down through the echoing tunnel and out along the harbourside and the ranks of swaying super-yachts....
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01:17 PM, May 22, 2013
Monte Carlo: Adrian Sutil says the VJM06, launched for the 2013 season, is the best car he has driven for Sahara Force India and it would suit the street circuit for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, here. Asked if the current car is the best Force India has come up so far, he replied, "I think so, yes. Wherever we have gone so far the car has looked competitive and that...
07:01 PM, May 20, 2013
Barcelona: Nicolas Almagro and Juan Monaco both managed third-round wins at the Barcelona Open on Thursday before rain forced the postponement of matches. The two will meet in the quarter-finals after Almagro defeated fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers 6-3, 6-4 on the outdoor red clay. Monaco outlasted Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in a long second-set tiebreaker to win 6-0, 7-6 (11). The rain bumped Rafael Nadal's match against Benoit Paire to Friday....
12:32 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Houston: John Isner and Nicolas Almagro, two of the biggest servers in tennis, aced their way into the final of the US Men's Clay Court Championship. Top-seeded Almagro of Spain, the ATP Tour leader with 261 aces, needed only 58 minutes to beat American wild-card Rhyne Williams 6-2, 6-1. Isner, second in tour aces with 251, recovered from a slow start to top defending champion Juan Monaco of Spain 1-6,...
09:17 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Buenos Aires: Carlos Berlocq defeated Frenchman Gilles Simon on Sunday in the deciding singles match to put Argentina into the Davis Cup semifinals. Berlocq won 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to delight the rowdy crowd at Parque Roca, the outdoor clay-court venue on the outskirts of the Argentine capital. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France defeated Juan Monaco 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 in Sunday's first singles to force the decider following Argentina's victory in...
08:50 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Juan Monaco lost an opening-round match for the third time this season, falling to Simone Bolelli of Italy 7-5, 6-2. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Juan Monaco was the first seed to be knocked out of the Australian Open losing to Russian Andrey Kuznetsov 7-6 6-1 6-1 in the first round. ...
04:35 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Valencia: Former No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt beat Juan Monaco of Argentina 6-3, 6-4 in the opening round of the Valencia Open on Monday, ending a 10-match losing run against top-10 opponents. The Australian wild-card entry broke the 10th-ranked Monaco twice in the opening set and three times in the second at the indoor hard-court tournament. The loss makes it difficult for the Argentine to qualify for the season-ending ATP World...
11:09 AM, Oct 23, 2012
Kuala Lampur: Argentine Juan Monaco battled for more than three hours to defeat Frenchman Julien Benneteau 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the Malaysian Open final on Sunday for his fourth ATP title of the year. Monaco, ranked 11th in the world, kept alive his hopes of qualifying for November's season-ending World Tour finals in London as one of the top eight ranked players. "I celebrated with my team in the locker...
09:34 PM, Sep 30, 2012
London: Those who thought Mark Webber had blown his one and only chance of winning the Formula One title back in 2010 may need to rethink after the Australian's pole to flag Monaco Grand Prix victory. In this most unpredictable of seasons with an unprecedented six different winners in six races, Webber has become a contender again. With 14 races remaining, the 35-year-old is level on points with Red Bull...
03:22 PM, May 29, 2012
Monaco: Mercedes promised to provide Michael Schumacher with a more reliable car after the German's hopes of a return to the Monaco glories of his heyday ended in disappointment on Sunday. The seven times world champion had his sights set on a podium finish for the first time since 2006, after what would have been pole position was translated into a sixth place start due to a previous penalty. Instead,...
03:48 PM, May 28, 2012
Monaco: The start was poor, his pit stop disappointed and even the numbers on the pit board provided a slap in the face for Lewis Hamilton at his favourite Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday. McLaren's 2008 world champion started the race at his favourite track in the third place on the grid and ended the afternoon fifth, the two places lost in the pits. Before the weekend the 27-year-old had...
02:32 PM, May 28, 2012
Monte Carlo: Sahara Force India recorded their best finish of the season with Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg securing seventh and eighth position respectively at the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo on Sunday. It was the second double finish of the season for Force India since both its cars got into the top 10 at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia in March. Force India thus picked up...
10:54 PM, May 27, 2012
Monaco: Mark Webber won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday to make Formula One history, while Fernando Alonso moved narrowly into the championship lead. Webber, who started from pole position, is the sixth different driver to win in the opening six races of the season, a first for F1. With drivers favouring a one-stop tire strategy on the most difficult track for overtaking, Webber effectively needed to make it to...
08:04 PM, May 27, 2012
Monaco: Pastor Maldonado looked likely to start Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix from the back of the grid after collecting a 10-place penalty for causing a collision and then being told his car would need a new gearbox. That unscheduled change would entail a further five place drop for the Venezuelan who started on pole position in Barcelona two weeks ago and went on to secure Williams' first Formula One win...
10:29 AM, May 27, 2012
Monte Carlo: Nico Hulkenberg and his team-mate Paul Di Resta will start at the fifth and seventh rows respectively at the grid on Sunday as the Sahara Force India team had a decent qualifying session at the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix in Mnte Carlo on Saturday. Hulkenberg qualified in P11 ahead of Di Resta in P15. With a grid penalty for Pastor Maldonado of Renault, both the Sahara Force...
10:13 PM, May 26, 2012
Monaco: Veteran Michael Schumacher posted the fastest time in an action-packed qualifying session at the Monaco Grand Prix on Saturday, but a grid penalty means that Mark Webber's Red Bull will start Sunday's race in pole position. Webber beat Nico Rosberg's time on his final lap, only for the 43-year-old Schumacher to surpass Webber's effort just moments later in a thrilling finale. But the grid penalty Schumacher incurred at the...
07:18 PM, May 26, 2012
Monaco: Nico Rosberg posted the fastest time under blue skies in the third practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix, boosting his pole position hopes ahead of qualifying later on Saturday. Nico Rosberg posted the fastest time under blue skies in the third practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix, boosting his pole position hopes ahead of qualifying later on Saturday. The German driver, who won the Chinese Grand Prix...
05:14 PM, May 26, 2012
Monaco: Jenson Button posted the fastest time in a rainy second practice at the Monaco Grand Prix on Thursday, and French rookie Romain Grosjean impressed again for Lotus while Felipe Massa found some much-needed form. With the track slippery after a downpour briefly interrupted the second session, drivers switched to intermediate tires. But Button had already clocked 1 minute, 15.746 seconds for McLaren on dry tires and that marker was...
08:35 PM, May 24, 2012
