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Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix was potentially a lucrative result for the Caterham team.

The rebranded Marussia team were plagued with difficulties in the buildup to the 2012 season, with the MR01 failing the 18th and final official crash test.

The Marussia F1 Team's Monaco Grand Prix got off to a flying start and continued that way for much of a race that saw Timo Glock equal his highest finish of the season, P14.

As we start the session and I switch on the television Sergio Perez bangs into the wall and loses his rear suspension and a rear tyre.

Marussia F1 Team's Timo Glock and Charles Pic will start tomorrow's Monaco Grand Prix from P20 and P22 respectively after experiencing different fortunes in this afternoon's qualifying session.

By PaddockTalk.com Staff Writers Somewhere somebody is singing "rain, rain, go away" as 2012 Formula One qualifying for round six is underway for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix is underway with no sign of the highly probable rain forecasted.

The softest compound in Pirelli's Formula One range - the P Zero Red supersoft - makes its first appearance of the year at the famed Monaco Grand Prix circuit: the slowest, tightest but also most prestigious race of the season.

GLOCK FP1 P22 1:21.638 9 laps FP2 P20 1:19.309 29 laps PIC FP1 P21 1:20.895 18 laps FP2 P22 1:20.240 21 laps The much-anticipated first free practice sessions for this weekend's 70th Monaco Grand Prix got underway today, where the Marussia F1 Team made the best of the changeable conditions to complete as much of the planned programme as possible.

As we head to Monaco, just about the only thing we can predict with any certainty about next weekend is that Michael Schumacher won't be starting from the first five places on the grid, the former World Champion having picked up a penalty for pushing Bruno Senna off the road in the Spanish GP.

The softest compound in Pirelli's Formula One range - the P Zero Red supersoft - makes its first appearance of the year at the famed Monaco Grand Prix circuit: the slowest, tightest but also most prestigious race of the season.

Both DA rr Motorsport McLaren's secured Top 30 positions in the qualifying session of the 40 fastest cars.

Bruno Senna on spinning and beaching his Williams in the gravel; Charles Pic on a speedy Q1 run which saw him outpace his team mate Timo Glock for a second race in succession; McLaren’s Jenson Button and Red Bull’s Mark Webber on failing to make it through to the top-ten shootout; Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi on his hydraulic leak; ... (more)

The Marussia Formula One team's drivers were split over the car's performance in Friday practice for the Spanish Grand Prix with Charles Pic proclaiming himself happy, but Timo Glock lamenting severe handling trouble.

And when your office job is racing Formula One cars for a living, the leap between the daily grind and bouncing baby feels even wider.

The Spanish Grand Prix, Round 5 of the 2012 Formula One World Championship, heralds the start of the sport's European season, when everything seems to move up a gear.