22 May 2012

Senna will use his regular car at Monaco

1:29 pm on 22 May 2012

Bruno Senna's Williams car came through the Spanish Grand Prix garage fire relatively undamaged and the Brazilian will use it in Monaco again this weekend.

The car had been in the Circuit de Catalunya garage when the fire broke out as the team posed for a victory photograph following Pastor Maldonado's first Formula One win eight days ago.

Photographs showed it surrounded by charred debris and covered by extinguisher foam but a team spokeswoman says the chassis is fine.

Williams' chief operations engineer Mark Gillan says while preparations for Monaco have been "somewhat hampered" by the fire, the team is ready to go racing.

Maldonado's win, from pole, in Barcelona was the first for Williams in nearly eight years and made him the fifth different winner in five races this season.

Both the Venezuelan and Senna have strong records on Monaco's tight and twisty streets in the junior GP2 series and will be aiming for another solid points finish in the season's glamour race.