Lando Norris resisted intense pressure to win a well -deserved victory for McLaren before the local hero of Ferrari, Charles Leclerc, in the Monaco Strangely Chaotic and Tactical Monaco Grand Prix. The Briton returned home in 3.131 seconds from last year’s winner with the championship leading the teammate of McLaren, Oscar Piastri, taking third place. The quadruple champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull then came to the second times the champion Lewis Hamilton in the second Ferrari. Norris became the first winner of McLaren in Monaco since Hamilton, during his first winning season in 2008. It was his first triumph of Monaco, his second this year and the sixth of his career.
The French recruit Isack Hadjar finished sixth for the RB team in front of Esteban Ocon de Haas, Liam Lawson in the second RB and the Williams pair Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz.
“Monaco baby, yeah baby!” Shouted Norris of his car in his slowdown after finishing less than three points of Piastri in the title race.
“It’s incredible. It’s a long and exhausting race. I was nervous in the last turn and we pushed, but we won in Monaco, so no matter how you do.
“I had a dream today.”
The race started with a clear, dry and sunny afternoon with the teams choosing a wide range of tires before the first compulsory race for two stops.
Norris made a solid start from the post, but approached to slide to Ste Devote. It was held to resist Leclerc before a quartet of tail purposes – including Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly made early stops.
A skirmish involving Kimi Antonelli and Gabriel Bortoleto was followed by early use of a virtual safety car (VSC) which caused the first judgments, but most of them stayed with Norris hung in front.
– Lane to Pit chaos –
The yellow flags made a sign of the eighth tour when Gasly lost control of her new alpine alpine and heurled Tsunoda Red Bull, damaging her left front wheel. He goes back to the stands and withdrew.
The disturbed order was affected by offbeat strategies while the teams sought to control the pace of a car to create a space for a stand at the stand for the other.
This stratagem forced Hamilton, Lawson and Sainz, among other things, to sacrifice their races, in the process, slowing down the field and creating traffic jams.
Hamilton opposed the Tour 18 and to Norris out of 20, the leader of the race reproducing in fourth as Hadjar, drawing the best party of RB tactics, opposed the second time and returned to eighth.
On the 30th round, despite the chaos of the standard way, it was “as you were” at the front with Norris Leclerc, Piastri and Verstappen – and Hamilton Fifth, despite his three -seater penalty.
By obeying the team’s orders, Hamilton built a 14 -second deficit behind Verstappen, to create a gap for the second judgment of Leclerc before Also retired in the Rascasse.
After more stand stops and with 25 rpm, Verstappen led Norris de Leclerc and Piastri fourth, but the champion had a stop to pay attention to the incidents that saw George Russell and Antonelli cut the chicane to pass a deliberately slow Alex Albon.
Russell refused to give the place and received a driving penalty. “I prefer not to speak,” he said, clearly furious.
For Mercedes, it was a day to forget.
“This is not the way we want to run,” admitted the head of Williams, James Vowles, having completed his men with ninth and 10th.
Verstappen hung on in front of his old tires, hoping that a red flag stop giving him a cheap stop as he retracted and compressed the front group in the closing towers.
He also knew that he was facing a 30 -second penalty if he did not stop again and would end up fourth anyway before the last round to reach the top trio.
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