Local favourite Charles Leclerc won the Monaco F1 GP for Ferrari to cut the gap to world championship leader Max Verstappen to 31 points
Charles Leclerc won the Monaco Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver taking his first victory at his home race and becoming the first Monégasque to win here since the Formula One world championship began in 1950.
The home crowd clearly were not bothered at how the win came as they celebrated and Leclerc was unsurprisingly absolutely joyous with his first win at his home race coming at the sixth attempt having never managed to make it to the podium previously. It has become known as the 26-year-old’s Monaco curse, a series of races where even his best chances seemed fated to fail.
Pérez had started in 16th but going up Beau Rivage was clipped from behind by the Haas of Kevin Magnussen and as he slewed sideways, he was catapulted into the one wall then the other, leaving all but the reinforced cockpit of his car smashed to pieces strewn across the track with only one wheel left attached to what was left of his ride. Both the Haas cars were collected in the crash and all the drivers emerged unhurt but it led to a lengthy red flag period.
This was very much a case of tyre and pace management prompted by the nature of the track and ensuring the rubber would make the distance and was very much the nose to tail procession that implies, as Leclerc controlled what was a very slow pace.
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