2024 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix Highlights

Introduction

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

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Mario Isola, Motorsport Director, Pirelli:

First and foremost, congratulations to Charles Leclerc and Scuderia Ferrari on their win. We can 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 often current many choices, and as we speak, even these few potentialities have been virtually worn out by the pink flag on the opening lap. As defined beforehand, the race being stopped meant {that a} pit cease was now not required. We knew that each the Hard and the Medium may go the whole distance if appropriately managed, and that’s what virtually all of the drivers did. Groups have been fashioned in line with what compound they have been working. Within 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 who did pit did so “for free,” in different phrases, with out shedding observe of place. They may then push forward with a transparent observe for a short while, lapping as a lot as complete seconds faster than these managing their tyres. But 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 observe:

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, particularly Leclerc, Sainz, Norris, Piastri, Albon, Ricciardo, Tsunoda, Zhou and Hulkenberg and the remaining eleven who went with the Hard, these being Perez, Verstappen, Russell, Hamilton, Stroll, Alonso, Ocon, Gasly, Sargeant, Bottas and Magnussen. However, the pink flag on the opening lap following a collision between Perez and Haas drivers meant that each 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 along 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 solely exception was Sargeant, who saved 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 in order that they may very well be accomplished with out shedding observe place. Those who took benefit of this state of affairs have been, so as, Bottas, Stroll, Hamilton, Verstappen and Sargeant, who went from Medium to Hard and Zhou, who switched from Hard to Soft. The solely 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, Formula 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 Formula 1 calendar since 1967.

Before 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 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix Race Results

2024 Constructor Standings

Here are the team-by-team highlights: