MONACO GP – RACE RESULTS

Sebastian Vettel finished the Monaco Grand Prix in second place. The German spent all 78 laps in the slipstream of Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes, managing to get ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who led for the first 65 laps, until he made a second pit stop. Vettel crossed the line 4 seconds behind the winner, having run the race at a very competitive pace. Raikkonen also fought hard all race long, showing a strong pace. This is Vettel’s fifth consecutive podium from six starts in “red.” [ferrari.com]

Final Results:

Pos	Driver	Car	Laps	Gap
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	78	1h49m18.420s
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	78	-8’01.379
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	78	-7’59.812
4	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	78	-7’53.900
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	78	-7’52.257
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	78	-7’51.519
7	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	78	-7’50.852
8	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	78	-7’49.802
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	78	-7’42.245
10	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	78	-7’40.809
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	78	-7’39.633
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	78	-7’37.450
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	78	-7’34.706
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	78	-7’20.076
15	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	77	1 Lap
16	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	76	2 Laps
17	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	76	2 Laps
–	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	62	Collision
–	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	41	Gearbox
–	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	5	Brakes

STANDINGS

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton	126
2	Nico Rosberg	116
3	Sebastian Vettel	98
4	Kimi Raikkonen	60
5	Valtteri Bottas	42
6	Felipe Massa	39
7	Daniel Ricciardo	35
8	Daniil Kvyat	17
9	Felipe Nasr	16
10	Romain Grosjean	16
11	Sergio Perez	11
12	Carlos Sainz	9
13	Nico Hulkenberg	6
14	Max Verstappen	6
15	Marcus Ericsson	5
16	Jenson Button	4
17	Fernando Alonso	0
18	Roberto Merhi	0
19	Will Stevens	0
20	Pastor Maldonado	0

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QUOTES

‘Come on where are the blue flags.Do I have to f*****g overtake him,or what?’ –#KimiRaikkonen on team radio #MonacoGP pic.twitter.com/BGYqKyJl5v

— loosewheelnut.co.uk (@loose_wheel_nut) May 24, 2015

Listen to the above team radio here.

“DID YOU SEE THE CAR THAT PUSHED ME OFF THAT WAS NOT VERY NICE” Classic Kimi Round 2. #F1 #MonacoGP pic.twitter.com/601suwzWlI — Peter Leung (@BaronVonClutch) May 24, 2015

Watch the above incident here. Listen to the team radio here.

From autosport.com – Kimi: “It’s not very clear what you’re allowed to do and what you’re not allowed to do because someone can get a penalty for something and another cannot. It usually is a penalty for these kind of things and this time not. There’s no certain way of what is allowed and what is not so in my view it was pretty obvious but the stewards think differently.”

From ferrari.com – Kimi: “We knew that after starting from sixth position it would have been a difficult race. I was all the time behind slower cars and there was no way to overtake them even if I had a much better pace. At the the pit stop we managed to pass one Red Bull, we gained one place but we lost it for a stupid reason. I was following my normal line when Ricciardo hit my rear tire and pushed me wide, regaining the position. It’s not very clear what you are allowed to do, it’s really odd but there’s nothing we can do. For the next races we have to make a better job overall to make sure we get tires working and things sorted out without mistakes on Saturday in qualifying. This will make our life a lot easier on Sunday. Now we go to Canada a bit happier overall but it’s too early to make predictions, we have similar tires but the layout of the track is completely different, so let’s wait and see.” 

From espn.co.uk – Kimi: “Obviously we have to go away and think as something wasn’t right in qualifying yesterday. Get the car working as best as we can and gain some places. Hopefully for the rest of the year we can do that and make the race a whole lot easier. On Sundays we seem to have the speed but starting in bad positions doesn’t help.”

From f1i.com – Kimi: “Its never going to make the race exciting when you qualify a bit out of place. You normally end up following cars and get stuck in position so it was a frustrating race.”

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GALLERY

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