- Monaco Grand Prix
Traffic is not a big deal - Sutil
- Race:
- Monaco Grand Prix
- Championship:
- FIA Formula One World Championship
- Drivers:
- Adrian Sutil
- Teams:
- Racing Point
Adrian Sutil has played down concerns that traffic chaoscould taint this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix.
With 24 cars on the grid this year, and six of them circulating at vastly slower pace, some leading drivers are worried they will be held up - particularly in Q1.
But Sutil told Motorsport-Magazin.com: "Some years ago it was normal that cars were within five, six seconds and someone was often held up. At that time nobody complained while today a big drama is being made of it. You have to take the situation as it is."
Lotus' Heikki Kovalainen will be driving one of the six slow cars this weekend and warned that he will focus on the track ahead and not his mirrors while on flying laps in qualifying.
"I have a job to do," said the Finn.
His Lotus teammate Jarno Trulli, meanwhile, echoed Sutil's comments about the past, reminding reporters that 22 cars headed to Monaco in his rookie season 1997 with a similarly big gap between the fastest and slowest cars.
"I don't have a solution," he said. "I don't care, I just want to go out in qualifying and do a quick lap."

