2024 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix Highlights

Introduction

Charles Leclerc has lastly gained the 2024 System 1 Monaco Grand Prix. He loved a largely serene drive to P1 in entrance of his residence followers regardless of early drama firstly.

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The purple flags have been thrown earlier than the primary lap of the enduring occasion had even been accomplished after an enormous collision between Sergio Perez’s Crimson Bull and the 2 Haas vehicles of Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg, placing all three out of the operating.

Leclerc led away cleanly when proceedings have been restarted – minus Esteban Ocon, who was pressured to retire following heavy contact with Alpine teammate Pierre Gasly on Lap 1 – as a race of technique performed out, with all eyes on whether or not the main vehicles would pit or make it to the top of the occasion.

However all through all of it, the Ferrari driver stored a cool head and remained forward of his rivals to take his first win on the streets of Monte Carlo, beating his earlier finest results of P4.

Leclerc crossed the road seven seconds forward of Oscar Piastri, who put in an assured drive within the McLaren and held off a late problem from Carlos Sainz, with the Spaniard making it a double Ferrari podium in third. Sainz likewise was being chased down by Lando Norris all through a lot of the latter levels, the second McLaren ending the day in fourth.

George Russell – operating an upgraded entrance wing this weekend – was the lead Mercedes in fifth, having held off a charging Max Verstappen in what has been a difficult few days for Crimson Bull. Lewis Hamilton adopted in seventh so as to add to the Silver Arrows’ factors tally.

Yuki Tsunoda had one other strong day, ending eighth within the RB, whereas Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly each scored their first factors of the 12 months for Williams and Alpine, ending ninth and tenth, respectively.

Fernando Alonso recovered considerably following a troublesome day on Saturday however simply missed out on factors, having completed in P11 for Aston Martin, forward of Daniel Ricciardo in P12 for RB and Valtteri Bottas because the lead Kick Sauber in P13.

There was disappointment for Lance Stroll, who ended the occasion in P14 for Aston Martin after struggling a puncture following a pit cease within the second half of the race, whereas Williams’ Logan Sargeant adopted in P15.

Zhou Guanyu grew to become the final categorized driver for Kick Sauber, ending sixteenth. 4 vehicles didn’t make it past the primary lap.

The aforementioned Ocon retired following his collision with Gasly, which has additionally earned him a five-place grid drop for the subsequent race in Canada.

Perez, Magnussen and Hulkenberg joined him as the opposite retirees following their dramatic crash on the opening lap of the occasion.

Mario Isola, Motorsport Director, Pirelli:

Before everything, congratulations to Charles Leclerc and Scuderia Ferrari on their win. We are able to solely start to think about what it means to Charles to have triumphed on the streets of the town the place he grew up!

On the tyre entrance, the Monaco race doesn’t normally current many choices, and immediately, even these few potentialities have been virtually worn out by the purple flag on the opening lap. As defined beforehand, the race being stopped meant {that a} pit cease was not required. We knew that each the Onerous and the Medium may go the entire distance if appropriately managed, and that’s what virtually all of the drivers did. Teams have been fashioned in line with what compound they have been operating. Inside these teams, some cat-and-mouse video games have been aimed toward getting different drivers to make errors, however this by no means actually created any overtaking alternatives or probabilities to alter methods to combine issues up. Those that did pit did so “free of charge,” in different phrases, with out dropping monitor of place. They may then push forward with a transparent monitor for a short time, lapping as a lot as complete seconds faster than these managing their tyres. However then, as soon as again in visitors, they needed to accept having an in depth view of the automotive in entrance. This explains why the highest ten locations by no means modified from the primary to the final lap.

The day on the monitor:

For a begin, the drivers have been cut up virtually equally between the 9 who had opted to run the primary stint on the Medium, specifically Leclerc, Sainz, Norris, Piastri, Albon, Ricciardo, Tsunoda, Zhou and Hulkenberg and the remaining eleven who went with the Onerous, these being Perez, Verstappen, Russell, Hamilton, Stroll, Alonso, Ocon, Gasly, Sargeant, Bottas and Magnussen. Nevertheless, the purple flag on the opening lap following a collision between Perez and Haas drivers meant that every one remaining drivers have been absolved of the necessity to make a pit cease to make use of two totally different compounds. Ocon was additionally unable to take the restart after colliding together with his team-mate. This meant that those that had began on the C3 switched to the C4 and vice versa, and all of them may get to the chequered flag with out stopping.

The one exception was Sargeant, who stored the identical set of Hards that he had used for the primary begin. There have been some pit stops, however these solely occurred when home windows opened within the visitors so that they might be accomplished with out dropping monitor place. Those that took benefit of this state of affairs have been, so as, Bottas, Stroll, Hamilton, Verstappen and Sargeant, who went from Medium to Onerous and Zhou, who switched from Onerous to Tender. The one driver to make two stops was Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, however solely as a result of he sustained a puncture after hitting the barrier.

What’s subsequent?

After two races in Europe, System 1 crosses the Pond as soon as extra for the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, within the province of Quebec, from 7 to 9 June. It’s been a historic fixture on the System 1 calendar since 1967.

Earlier than heading for Canada, Pirelli has two days of testing deliberate this coming Tuesday and Wednesday at Le Castellet’s Paul Ricard circuit in France. This time, Scuderia Ferrari is the staff concerned, with race drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz sharing driving duties. New compounds and building for each slick and moist climate tyres shall be examined.

2024 System 1 Monaco Grand Prix Race Outcomes

2024 Constructor Standings

Listed below are the team-by-team highlights: