The best the web has to offer on Monaco 08

A whole bunch of cool Monaco links for you to enjoy…

• Mark Webber’s Monaco photo diary, in which he reveals that he told a make-up artist to “poke it” (that’s Aussie for “get lost”) before Petra Ecclestone’s fashion show. [BBC Sport]

• Kimi Raikkonen speaks about his disastrous race. Read our verdict here. [The Prancing Horse]

• James Allen’s review of Monaco ‘08, which he ranks as one of his top three GPs that he’s commentated on. [ITV Sport]

Watch McLaren’s flying Finn play hide and seek in a tyre wall

Proof that a modern Formula 1 car is almost indestructible. Ten years ago, this incident may well have cost Kovalainen his life; F1’s zero-tolerance attitude to safety in the 21st century means that a driver can almost walk away from a huge crash like this. As a precaution, the Finn had to be airlifted to hospital, but he suffered no injury apart from minor concussion after the smash.

Martin Brundle and co. win award for Canadian GP show

ITV Sport’s F1 team have won a second successive BAFTA, this time for their coverage of the incident-packed 2007 Canadian Grand Prix. Montreal ‘07 saw Lewis Hamilton’s first ever F1 win, four safety cars, and Robert Kubica’s spectacular crash (which you can enjoy here from a great angle, safe in the knowledge that the Pole walked away).