MONACO GP - RACE - RE-CAP & RESULTS
The Australian made a good start from pole position but reported a loss of power not long after the pit stops. Sebastian Vettel was able to close in on the back of his former team-mate but Ricciardo gave him no opportunity to pass.
Though his team told him there was no way the problem could be resolved, Ricciardo managed to problem and began to build a gap to Vettel in the closing stages of the race. He finished more than
seven seconds ahead of the Ferrari to take his second victory of the season.
Lewis Hamilton spent the majority of the race worried about tyre wear. The championship leader was the first of the front runners to pit after starting on the softest compound of tyre. He felt as if he weren’t able to push and allowed Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas to close in on the back of his Mercedes, but managed to make it to the end of the race and claim third, his championship lead narrowing to just four points to Vettel.
Raikkonen and Bottas took fourth and fifth ahead of Esteban Ocon.
Renault opted for an alternative strategy with Nico Hulkenberg, pitting the German far later than most of the field. After starting 11th, he’d managed to climb up to sixth before his pit stop, and came out just ahead of the recovering Max Verstappen, who started from the back after a crash in FP3.
Hulkenberg was allowed past team-mate Carlos Sainz to take seventh and set about attacking Pierre Gasly for sixth. The Renault ran out of laps before he could find a way past Gasly and the pair finished seventh and eighth.
Verstappen pulled out some stunning moves, including one around the outside of Sainz at the chicane, to finish ninth. He lies sixth in the championship standings but 25 points behind Raikkonen and three points ahead of Fernando Alonso.
Alonso could have overtaken the Red Bull in the championship standings were it not for a gearbox problem that brought his race to a premature end. He had been fighting to keep Gasly behind him when he pulled to a stop at the side of the track, taking his first retirement of the season.
Charles Leclerc and Brendon Hartley also retired after coming together in the closing stages of the race. The Sauber’s brakes failed and he hit the back of Hartley at the chicane, bringing out the virtual safety car.
Team-mate Marcus Ericsson finished just outside the top 10 in P11, ahead of Sergio Perez, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne, and Romain Grosjean.
After a promising start to the weekend, Williams suffered another disappointing race. Sergey Sirotkin was handed a drive through penalty after mechanics were forced to change a wheel on his Williams less than three minutes before the race. He struggled to make improvements and finished 16th, ahead of team-mate Lance Stroll, who suffered two punctures.
RESULTS:
1. Daniel Ricciardo / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Australia / + 25 Points
2. Sebastian Vettel / Ferrari-Ferrari / Germany / + 18 Points
3. Lewis Hamilton / Mercedes-Mercedes / Great Britain / + 15 Points
4. Kimi Raikkonen / Ferrari-Ferrari / Finland / + 12 Points
5. Valtteri Bottas / Mercedes-Mercedes / Finland / + 10 Points
6. Esteban Ocon / Force India-Mercedes / France / + 8 Points
7. Pierre Gasly / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / France / + 6 Points
8. Nico Hulkenberg / Renault-Renault / Germany / + 4 Points
9. Max Verstappen / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Netherlands / + 2 Points
10. Carlos Sainz / Renault-Renault / Spain / + 1 Point
11. Marcus Ericsson / Sauber-Ferrari / Sweden /
12. Sergio Perez / Force India-Mercedes / Mexico
13. Kevin Magnussen / Haas-Ferrari / Denmark
14. Stoffel Vandoorne / McLaren-Renault / Belgium
15. Romain Grosjean / Haas-Ferrari / France
16. Sergey Sirotkin / Williams-Mercedes / Russia
17. Lance Stroll / Williams-Mercedes / Canada
RETIRED - Charles Leclerc / Sauber-Ferrari / Monaco / Collision
RETIRED - Brendon Hartley / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / New Zealand / Collision*
RETIRED - Fernando Alonso / McLaren-Renault / Spain / Gearbox
* - (Hartley) 5-Second-Time-Penalty for speeding in the Pit-Lane
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