Team by team analysis of Monaco Grand Prix
MONACO : Team by team analysis of Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, round six of the 22-race Formula One season (Listed in championship order):
RED BULL (Max Verstappen 1, Sergio Perez 16)
Verstappen's fourth win of the season, second in Monaco and 39th of his career. The double champion is now 39 points clear of Perez at the top and also the 'winningest' Red Bull driver, surpassing Sebastian Vettel's 38 for the team. Verstappen started on pole with medium tyres and finished 27 seconds clear of Alonso. Perez started last after his qualifying crash, made five pitstops and was lapped twice.
ASTON MARTIN (Fernando Alonso 2, Lance Stroll retired)
Alonso, 41, continued his great run of form with a fifth podium in six races to keep Aston Martin a single point clear of engine provider Mercedes. He started on the front row with hard tyres, pitted for mediums and then again for intermediates - a decision that cost him time. Stroll was in the wars from the start, dropping three places, hitting the wall and suffering brake issues before becoming the first to retire.
MERCEDES (Lewis Hamilton 4, George Russell 5)
Hamilton took a bonus point for fastest lap. Russell was hit with a five second penalty for an unsafe return to the track, nearly taking out Perez, but pulled out enough of a gap on Leclerc to make it immaterial. The pair started fifth and eighth respectively and both pitted for inters on lap 55, that being Hamilton's second stop and Russell's first.
FERRARI (Charles Leclerc 6, Carlos Sainz 8)
Local hero Leclerc was handed a three-placed grid drop after qualifying for impeding Norris, and started sixth. They ran in their fourth and sixth grid positions initially. Leclerc did not pit until lap 44, when he switched from hard to medium.