Pirelli's tyre choice for this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix has been blamed for a spate of 'traffic' issues in qualifying as surprisingly cool conditions forced drivers to work harder in search of suitable working temperatures. The sole supplier of rubber could not have gone any more aggressive in its choice, having provided its soft and supersoft compounds for the blue riband event, but even the supersoft tyre was taking several laps to reach optimum conditions, prompting several drivers to voice the opinion that perhaps the construction had gone too far in the opposite direction. "I am sure, if you ask any driver, the tyres are too hard for this circuit," Williams' Valtteri...
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