Rain did not put a dampener on Max Verstappen in Monaco, who drove with precision to victory, and a healthy 39-point World Championship lead. F1 MonacoGP 🇲🇨
Max Verstappen survived the chaos of a rain shower to win the Monaco Grand Prix where, despite the wet-weather induced drama, the top three on the grid were the top three at the chequered flag.
Further back Nico Hulkenberg had a flier as he made up four places, at least one of those at Lance Stroll’s expense with the Canadian dropping four. Hulkenberg’s efforts were undone by a puncture suffered in his battle with Logan Sargeant and Stroll at Mirabeau, the Haas driver then penalised five seconds for causing a collision. Zhou Guanyu and Sergio Perez from the back of the field also pitted.
Behind them the other Ferrari of Leclerc was chasing Hamilton for fifth place, the Mercedes driver hitting the debris of Sainz’s endplate. They had Pierre Gasly and George Russell running three seconds behind them.Back at the front Verstappen began to stretch his legs and easily put 10 seconds between himself and Alonso. Ocon continued to run third ahead of Sainz with the Ferrari driver told there could be rain late in the race.
Pushing hard on his medium tyres to keep Alonso roughly nine seconds at bay, Verstappen told Red Bull “I don’t know how long I can keep this up for”. Another driver struggling was Leclerc, the local favourite in on lap 45 for fresh mediums. He came out 10s behind Hamilton but on fresher tyres. Gasly was the next in with Verstappen, Alonso and Russell the top three on lap 50.
As the chaos played out Verstappen was P1 ahead of Alonso, Ocon, Hamilton, Russell, Leclerc, Gasly and Sainz had fallen down to eighth. Stroll, another in the barrier, was in the pits for a new front wing, so too was Magnussen and then Sargeant also hit the barriers, twice, as too did Perez, who bounced off them, while Russell was given a five-second penalty for returning to the track in an unsafe manner that led to contact from Perez and Stroll retired.
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