Marko Hanželic
Race for GP Monaco is for Charles Leclerc finished even before it began, as Monaco allegedly damaged gearbox he couldn’t start, which of course saddened Ferrari and home fans, who had high expectations of the XNUMX-year-old from Monte Carlo.
With this, the pessimistic predictions came true Mattie Binotta and continued Leclerc's curse on home soil, as he has never seen a checkered flag in a home race either in Formula 1 or before in Formula 2. Leclerc said otherwise during the race that the problem most likely not in the gearbox and that they are still researching what is wrong.
The fastest ten in qualifying started the race on soft tires, and behind them, the choice of tires was quite colorful. Or with and both Haas racers also started on soft tires, Stroll in tsunoda they chose the hard ones, the other five started on medium tread tires.
From the forefront are both ob absence of Leclerc started Max Verstappen in Valtteri Bottas. The Finn managed a significantly better start than the Dutch, but the latter had enough maneuvering space, that Bottas, which of course started from the third position, closed before importing into Saint Devote. There were no major changes in the order after the start, he gained the most Fernando Alonso, who advanced from the seventeenth to the fourteenth.
For the next twenty-seven laps, we watched the goose ride, but it is Verstappen slowly increasing the advantage over Bottas. In the thirtieth round, he was the first to decide to go to the pits Lewis Hamiltonwho tried with undercut against Gasly, but he failed to overtake the Frenchman, so he asked his engineers on the radio if anything had gone wrong. Things got much more complicated with his teammate, with whom he is blocked by the nut on the front right wheel. After a good half minute in the pits it was clear he was for a visibly enraged Finn the race is over.
If Hamilton the undercut failed, the more it succeeded overcut by Sebastian Vettl, which gained places against The British in Gasly. After all the racers lined up in the pits, he had Verstappen in the first place just under five seconds ahead of Sainz, followed him Norris, Perez, which also gained a good number of overcut sites, and Hag.
We did not experience any major changes in the last part of the race. In the 59th round, he also made his first stop in the pits Lance stroll, which started on hard tires, and is three laps ahead Daniel Riccardo in 12th place for the round overtook his teammate Lando Norris, who was increasingly in third place on Sergio Perez’s strike. Ricciardo did not find himself in Monaco this year, where he celebrated three years ago, and will try a racing weekend in the principality forget as soon as possible.
The same is true for Lewis Hamilton, who did not manage to gain anything at the start, and then he did not even get a strategy with an undercut against Pierre Gasly, after which he then drove most of the race, but failed to seriously threaten him. Ten laps before the end, the Briton turned into the pits again for a fresh set of soft compound tires, which eventually brought him point for the fastest lap.
It's at the end Max Verstappen celebrated a sovereign victory as he led from start to finish. He won second place with an unobtrusive but extremely smart ride Carlos Sainz and Ferrari drove the first podium this year, and is in third place Lando Norris withstood the final pressure Sergio Pereza, who may also be pleased to have won five seats.
He can be very happy with fifth place as well Sebastian Vettel, the same is true for Pierre Gasly on the sixth, and much less will be satisfied with his achievement in Monaco this year Lewis Hamilton, who finished seventh, place before Esteban Ocon. They finished ten point winners Lance stroll in Antonio Giovinazzi. Interestingly, they are both Haas racer he was three laps behind the winner, and for the first time this year he was mazepin better than Schumacher. The German is said to have problems with the powertrain.
