Sergio Perez won a rain-disrupted Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday as pole-sitter Charles Leclerc suffered another dose of ill luck on his home circuit. | Sport24news
World champion Verstappen extended his lead over Leclerc to nine points in the drivers' title battle. Perez moved up to only six points behind Leclerc in third.
Leclerc was furious at seeing a winning hand collapse after losing time on one of the many pit stops.George Russell took fifth for Mercedes ahead of Lando Norris for McLaren, Alpine's Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in the other Mercedes.The seventh round of the championship was hit by a deluge before its scheduled 15:00 start, the downpour creating scenes of chaos in the crowded confines of the narrow harbourside pit lane.
After three days of perfect Riviera weather, the anticipated rain clouds arrived and burst immediately after the national anthem, sending Race Control into safety overdrive and creating chaos on the grid. But no sooner had the cars gone out for a formation lap over an hour behind schedule than more heavy rain fell, leaving a lot of water on the narrow stretches of asphalt on the barrier-lined street circuit. This resulted in the race being red flagged and all the cars and drivers returned to a saturated pit lane before the rain relented allowing racing t go ahead under a rolling start.