Bojan Vrbnjak
Today's race started with close encounters in The Source, where he collected it the most Max Verstappen, which is at the top Eau Rouge resigned with a damaged left front suspension in the guardrail. Guilt for a close encounter with Kimi Raikkonen he can largely attribute it to himself, as he wished to wrap himself in this hairpin in the narrowest possible part.
V The Source however, there has also been a change among the top three racers as well Lewis Hamilton managed to overtake Sebastian Vettlwhile Charles Leclerc retained his place and was the first to give in eau rouge. But the German quickly returned the blow and on the plane Kemmel overtook Hamilton, so they are behind the safety car - due to Verstappen, who resigned - classified Leclerc, Hag, Hamilton, Bottas, Norris, Grosjean, Magnussen, Perez, gasly in Stroll - to name the top ten.
In the fifth lap, the safety car swerved off the track and Leclerc managed to defend the city from a teammate who is in The Source made a brake error. Leclerc it was slowly receding, and the order behind it remained unchanged. Vettel failed to completely detach itself from Hamilton, followed by him with a lag of about a second. She obviously is Hag in the error of braking the principles of his tire, so already in the 14th lap he had to turn into the pits for a change.
He is wearing a medium rubber compound Hag drove great times, enough to be in front of a teammate even when he came back to the track after his stop. Mercedes the duo took a little more time and the racers turned to the stops later. The order after the first stops of the leading four was as follows: Hag, Leclerc, Hamilton, Bottas, Norris, Giovinazzi, Ricciardo, Perez, Grosjean in gasly.
But young Leclerc has 6 laps younger tires with big steps approached a teammate Vettel in v round number 27 a team command followed. Leclerc he dared before Vettel, and the latter turned to the side on the finish line to Monachan he did not lose speed. Hag he then complained to the team that his tires would most likely not hold up until the end of the race, even though he is his racing engineer Adami said the fight with the racers behind him will last until the finish.
So that Vettel at first there was nothing left but to move on he fights with rivals and his tires. A few laps he managed to keep behind Hamilton, which helped in terms of the outcome of today's race Leclercthat he had accumulated a large enough time advantage. One might also think that this may have been a tactic as well Ferrari. Because he's in the 32nd round Hamilton v Lec Combes however managed to overtake Vettel and go hunting for Leclerc. Two laps later he did Vettel approached further Bottas, but at that time the German was called to the pits to put on a soft mixture of tires.
We were expecting a hunt Vettel behind the first three racers, but none of that. V 36th round he made a braking error again and his fresh soft tires were enough to drive him an extra point for the fastest lap of the race.
In the middle of the field, however, we could see something interesting duels and overtaking maneuverswhile Leclerc had a six-second lead over the top Hamilton. But the advantage of the young Monaco she landed from lap to lap because the lap before the end of the race he had Leclerc only a second and a half advantage. In the last lap, he resigned in the protective fence Giovinazzi, and the bitter end of the race was still great today Lando Norris, which got stuck on the finish line after the penultimate lap, is said to be an engine failure.
That's right Leclerc in the end, however, he looked forward to his first career victory Formula 1, which he dedicated to his tragically deceased friend Anthoine Hubert. He won second place Lewis Hamiltonand the third was his teammate Valtteri Bottas. He won fourth place Sebastian Vettel, he was fifth Alexander albon, sixth Sergio Perez, seventh Daniil Kvyat, eighth Nico Hulkenberg, ninth Pierre Gaslyand won the last point Lance Stroll.
