Max Verstappen Triumphs in Rain-Soaked Monaco GP on Final Stretch

Verstappen wins rain-hit Monaco GP on final stretch

After taking the lead at the first corner with pole position, Max Verstappen defeated Fernando Alonso, who was a great threat to him in qualifying, in the Monaco GP affected by rain in the final stage of the race. Carroll wins.

Alonso missed his best chance of a win this season at the hands of the Red Bull Racing driver, who had to pay an extra race after misjudging the rain and putting the Aston Martin driver on slick tires in a crucial pitstop. The stop was changed to semi-wet tires, and the runner-up finished with a gap of nearly 28 seconds.

Esteban Ocon showed once again how important qualifying is for the Monaco GP, although his Alpine was clearly not as fast as the Ferrari and Mercedes AMG drivers, but being able to start in front of them and not make a mistake got a good result, The French rider ended up being the third person in the race to see the checkered flag.

The official race of the Monaco GP started under cloudy weather. Half of the drivers started with medium tyres. Except for Zhou Guanyu who was equipped with soft tyres, the rest were equipped with hard tyres.

As soon as the five red lights went out, Alonso, who started with hard tires, did not attack Verstappen. He focused on keeping the second seat, and his ranking in the rear scoring circle did not change. There were only a few minor collisions in the first lap. The race went well.

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Verstappen在末段賽事受雨影響的摩納哥GP中獲勝 — Verstappen wins rain-hit Monaco GP on final stretch

Then Verstappen, who took the lead, started to leave everyone behind, and Alonso also opened up the gap with the other drivers, and the two formed a group each. Ocon and Carlos Sainz gradually formed the third group, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc not far behind them, then Pierre Gasly, George Russell, Yuki Tsunoda and the two McLaren drivers.

Afterwards, the race proceeded as in previous years on the Monte Carlo circuit, without many overtakings. Even if he took action, he would damage his car like Sainz did on lap 11. It wasn’t until lap 30 that someone started to stop to change tires, and the ranking within the points circle did not change.

According to the weather radar, it will start to rain in the 50th lap of the race. The drivers who have not changed their tires at this time choose to hold on to the field as much as possible until the rain finally comes around the 50th lap. At the beginning, only part of the track had rain, and most drivers chose to stay on the field and wait and see. Although the slippery road section caused confusion, there were no accidents requiring the deployment of the safety car.

At this time, the drivers stopped to change tires one after another. Due to different opinions on rain assessment, some drivers still chose to change dry tires, but they all had to make additional pit stops and then changed to semi-wet tires or wet tires, such as Alonso and Russell, because the rain intensified later and there was rain all over the track.

Although Verstappen lost a lot of time on slippery roads by pitting later than Alonso, he benefited from the direct change to semi-wet tires, which saved him from the risk of being overtaken by Aston Martin drivers. After the wet tyres, the Red Bull driver was still ahead with Alonso nearly 20 seconds behind him.

Later, as the rain eased and the race gradually stabilized, Verstappen slowly opened up the gap again, and finally crossed the checkered flag with an advantage of nearly 28 seconds to win his fourth win of the season, benefiting from the Qualifying crashed, and teammate Sergio Perez, who was also in trouble in the official race, failed to score points, allowing him to widen the gap in the driver standings to 39 points.

Alonso, who finished the race steadily, won his best runner-up position so far this season. Except for the Azerbaijan GP, he was on the podium in every race. Ocon, who made no mistakes and had the right timing to stop, successfully won the third place. This is his second time on the podium since his debut in F1.

Relying on more appropriate pit stops, Hamilton and Russell of Mercedes both surpassed Leclerc and Sainz of their main competitors, Ferrari, and took the fourth and fifth seats. The Ferrari driver who chose to start on hard tires but pitted earlier than his opponents, and lasted longer than others in the rain, only finished sixth and eighth in the end.

Steady and steady, Gasly passed the finish line smoothly in seventh place at the start, helping the Alpine team to both score points at the Monte Carlo circuit. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri of the McLaren team overtook and struggled with braking problems at the end of the race. Yuki Kakuda, who ran ninth in most of the race, occupied the last two positions in the scoring circle, and both won integral.