Review of the Monaco GP by Pedro Cunha
“We’ve lost this, haven’t we?”
Normally Monaco is a “box of surprises”, but this year we’ve watched real drama.
Hamilton (after another pole) was quietly leading the race when on lap 64 (of 78), Verstappen with a wrong move hit Grosjean’s car and crashed into the wall, forcing the Safety Car to come out.
Mercedes ordered Hamilton to come into the pits to change tires and the English driver not only lost the 1st place to Rosberg. He also lost the 2nd place to Vettel, having Mercedes to admit that they “screwed it up” for Hamilton after a very wrong tactical decision.
With the victory Rosberg became the 4th driver to win at least 3 straight races at Monaco, succeeding Graham Hill (1963-1965), Alain Prost (1984-1986) and Ayrton Senna, who won five times in a row (1989-1993).
It was a good performance from Red Bull with Kvyat in 4th and Ricciardo in 5th (a strategy of “gentlemen”, that is where, first, the Russian was asked to let the Australian go for him to try to chase Hamilton, but when the team realised that Ricciardo would not succeed, he was asked to let Kvyat through.
There were the first points for McLaren with Button in 8th place, as Force India returned to the points with Pérez in 7th, as well as Sauber with Nasr in 9th. Raikkonen in 6th and Sainz in 10th, scored equally.
It was a bad weekend for Williams as Bottas was in 14th and Massa 15th (after an incident on lap 1 with Maldonado (who else?) that ruined his race) and for the first time since November 24, 2013, the team did not score.
Maldonado (brakes), Alonso (gearbox) and Verstappen (accident) were the 3 drivers out of the race.
Within two weeks we will have the Canadian GP.
Here are the current standings:
Drivers: Hamilton (126), Rosberg (116), Vettel (98), Räikkönen (60), Bottas (42)
Constructors: Mercedes (242), Ferrari (158), Williams (81), Red Bull (52), Sauber (21)
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