2024 Formulation 1 Monaco Grand Prix Highlights

Introduction

Charles Leclerc has lastly gained the 2024 Formulation 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:

Initially, 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 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 prospects had 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 not required. We knew that each the Arduous and the Medium may go the whole distance if appropriately managed, and that’s what virtually all of the drivers did. Teams had been shaped based on what compound they had been operating. Inside these teams, some cat-and-mouse video games had been geared toward getting different drivers to make errors, however this by no means actually created any overtaking alternatives or possibilities to vary methods to combine issues up. Those that did pit did so “totally free,” in different phrases, with out dropping observe of place. They might then push forward with a transparent observe for a short while, lapping as a lot as entire seconds faster than these managing their tyres. However then, as soon as again in site visitors, they needed to accept having a detailed 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 had been break 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 Arduous, these being Perez, Verstappen, Russell, Hamilton, Stroll, Alonso, Ocon, Gasly, Sargeant, Bottas and Magnussen. Nonetheless, the pink flag on the opening lap following a collision between Perez and Haas drivers meant that each one remaining drivers had 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 site visitors in order that they might be accomplished with out dropping observe place. Those that took benefit of this situation had been, so as, Bottas, Stroll, Hamilton, Verstappen and Sargeant, who went from Medium to Arduous and Zhou, who switched from Arduous to Comfortable. 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, Formulation 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 Formulation 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 workforce concerned, with race drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz sharing driving duties. New compounds and development for each slick and moist climate tyres can be examined.

2024 Formulation 1 Monaco Grand Prix Race Outcomes

2024 Constructor Standings

Listed here are the team-by-team highlights: