Tuesday, 29 May 2018

2018 Monaco Grand Prix Review

Review of the sixth round of the 2018 F1 season on the streets of Monte Carlo, for the Monaco Grand Prix.

Overall the race itself was a good race to watch, despite limited overtaking. Daniel Ricciardo was on pole for Sunday's race, and a race for redemption after missing out the win back in 2016. This time for Ricciardo he controlled it throughout despite losing his ERS-H system in the middle of the race, took the lead at the start with Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel behind him and didn't look back leading all of the laps to conclude with a famous race win in this seasons Monaco Grand Prix for Daniel Ricciardo's second race win of the season. For Red Bull their first race win at Monaco since 2012.



While, Sebastian Vettel finished in second place in the Ferrari, Vettel was seven seconds behind Ricciardo at the end.

Meanwhile, Current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton finished in third place in the Mercedes to complete the podium, Hamilton was seventeen seconds behind Ricciardo at the end of the seventy-eight lap race.

Highlights of the race below, enjoy.




Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 7
Lewis Hamilton - 8 (finished third)
Valtteri Bottas - 7 (finished fifth)

Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 8 (finished second)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (finished fourth)

Red Bull Racing - 9
Daniel Ricciardo - 10 (pole, race win)
Max Verstappen - 8 (finished ninth, fastest lap)

Force India - 7
Sergio Pérez- 5 (finished twelfth)
Esteban Ocon- 9 (finished sixth)

Williams - 4
Lance Stroll - 3 (finished seventeenth, two laps down)
Sergey Sirotkin - 5 (finished sixteenth, lap down)

Renault - 7
Nico Hülkenberg - 7 (dinished eighth)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 7 (finished tenth)

Toro Rosso - 7
Pierre Gasly - 9 (finished seventh)
Brendon Hartley - 6 (DNF, Collision with Leclerc)

Haas - 4
Romain Grosjean - 4 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished thirteenth)

McLaren - 5
Fernando Alonso - 7 (DNF, Gearbox)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 4 (finished fourteenth, lap down)

Sauber - 6
Marcus Ericsson - 7 (finished eleventh)
Charles Leclerc - 5 (DNF, Collision with Hartley)


Next stop Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix in two weeks time.

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