If Hamilton pits soon, he might be behind Ocon, which would be huge. Ricciardo still managing well. Bottas under a second behind Raikkonen, still working on that move. Williams drivers still at the back of the grid. Vettel closer to Ricciardo now, 0. Verstappen sets a new fastest lap of the race from ninth, and is 1. Ocon is 8. Sainz is holding up his teammate, Hulkenberg, who has Verstappen sticking right behind him.
It sounds like Sainz has been told to find the right moment to let Hulkengerg through without letting Verstappen through as well. A couple laps later, Verstappen is still trying to make that move.
Sainz seemed to cut the track, and may have to give the place to Verstappen. Or not. Verstappen makes the move on Sainz — why wait for the stewards? And nearly goes too far wide himself. Verstappen gets the place. Ricciardo still up on Vettel, less than a second, and at times around 1. Hamilton still 2. Vettel is back into DRS range of Ricciardo. Sirotkin pits again, and Hulkenberg pits for the first time.
Hulkenberg rejoins in 10th, behind Sainz and ahead of Verstappen. Gasly is chasing Alonso for seventh. Yellow flags in Sector 1. Gasly is gaining on Verstappen, who is losing pace. Ricciardo still up 1. Vettel seems to be pushing again, though. Red Bull comes out of the garage. He fits the hypersoft tires, which should struggle to make it to the end.
Verstappen rejoins in 11th. Vettel sneaks to under a second to Ricciardo, but drops back again right after that. Seven seconds cover the top five. Hamilton is sneaking up back of Vettel, less than two seconds behind now. Bottas is still 1. Raikkonen is 3. Verstappen may be pitting soon. Stroll has to pit again with another puncture to his front left, and the terrible day for Williams continues. Gasly, running in sixth, finally pits after 35 laps on the hypersofts, and fits the supers, which seem to be out-performing the hypers.
Bottas is 1. Ricciardo keeps ahead of Vettel. Whatever the issue is, he stays ahead. Vettel locks up a bit around the chicane, and may have flat-spotted one of his tires. Ricciardo gets back up to a 1. MonacoGP F1 pic. Hamilton is 7. Hamilton is struggling with grip on his tires, the front left is graining pretty heavily. Raikkonen is right behind him. Verstappen is having issues with his gears, and he complains to his team.
His team comes over and tells him to keep at it. The Monaco GP was cancelled last year due to the Covid pandemic and did not feature on the F1 calendar for the first time since It is back for with limited fan attendance of 7, people per day. Here is one of the greatest moments in Monaco Grand Prix history: Daniel Ricciardo redemption victory in By race day, the Australian F1 driver had done everything he needed to make him the clear favourite as he was the quickest through practice and untouchable in qualifying.
However, the race was far from straightforward for Ricciardo. Ricciardo began the race well from pole position and built a comfortable lead in front until he suffered a power problem on lap 28 in the MGU-K.
Unable to use the seventh and eighth gears, he saw his lead decrease lap by lap before Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel eventually got on his tail. RIC: "I felt a loss of power and I thought the race was done Ricciardo's Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen started from the rear after crashing in practice but was able to climb inside the top 10 to finish ninth. Towards the end of the race, the virtual safety car had to come out onto the track. The safety car forces drivers to slow down and was sent out after Charles Leclerc suffered a brake issue and crashed into Brendon Hartley.
By Matthew Mayer.
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