Although Max Verstappen won from pole position for his fourth victory of the season, the streets of Monaco turned into a slip ‘n’ slide during the late stages to add a bit of chaos and drama. (By JonathanBrazeau)
There’s nothing like just a little rain to upset what looked to be another routine parade around the historic and iconic street circuit.
Verstappen crossed the finish line in his Red Bull with a nearly 28-second advantage over Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, whose team gambled and lost by switching from hard to medium tires only to have to pit again in quick succession to slap on a set of intermediates to deal with the rain. Although Alonso and Aston Martin lost the pit stop gamble, they at least didn’t lose ground as they were well ahead of Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, who finished a distant third.
There was also a close call with George Russell although the Mercedes driver was found to be at fault for that incident and penalized. Alpine is now trending in the right direction — having also scored double points in Miami three weeks ago — and leapfrogged McLaren for fifth place in the constructors’ standings and “best of the rest.” It’ll be interesting to see if they can maintain that momentum next week in Spain.Oh Ferrari, how did you disappoint this time? How about before the Grand Prix even started?
On a positive note, Ferrari did manage to pull off a clean double-stack pit stop so there’s at least that going right for them.• Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton flew under the radar going about his business as he finished in fourth and also snagged the fastest lap bonus point. You don’t need to remind Hamilton how much every point matters.
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