Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco Practise 1. In times past, Formula One drivers negotiated the Circuit de Monaco practically one-handed, their right palms rubbed raw by the thousands of gear changes required during up to 100 laps of the tortuous track in the Principality. Today's drivers may have a slightly easier time of it, in that they can at least keep both hands on the wheel, but those hands are also significantly busier in 2011.
FIA ban on the deployment of the Drag Reduction System (DRS) through the tunnel in Monaco this weekend, contending that the first driver to attempt to use it there 'would have put it in the wall' and arguing that the major aids to overtaking around the narrow streets of the glamorous Principality will be tyres and KERS.
