00:00No, no, the gearbox goes.
00:05Not only will Charles Leclerc not start from pole position, he will not start the Monaco Grand Prix
00:10at all, Ferrari confirm that it's a problem with the left drive shaft,
00:14which is impossible to fix in time for the start of the race.
00:21It's lights out and away we go, Bottas got away well, Verstappen comes over to cover him
00:26and does cover off the Mercedes into Sandoval, Bottas locks up, he's in second, Carlos Sainz third,
00:31then comes Lando Norris taking the inside line there with Esteban Ocon in the Alpine
00:36and not exactly on the track as up through Massonet they go now,
00:40it's Max Verstappen that leads, Sergio Perez having a bit of a tussle there with Esteban Ocon in the Alpine,
00:46Perez I think just staying ahead of Esteban Ocon as down now towards the Lowe's hairpin we come,
00:52it's Verstappen from Bottas, then comes Sainz and then comes Norris, after Norris Pierre Gasly,
00:58then Lewis Hamilton and Lance Stroll. Let's see the start then, Bottas gets away well,
01:03and here comes Max to cover him off. Yeah, Max really had to get aggressive there, didn't he?
01:07Bottas with the far better start, but driving into a wedge that the Red Bull was creating,
01:14look at the two Haases right at the back, getting extremely friendly.
01:18Mick Schumacher decided he wasn't going to stick around behind Nikita Mazepin for this race,
01:22and that's how he made up the place on his teammate there. Lewis Hamilton comes into the pits,
01:28and the nice stop, 2.2 seconds. Now he's got to pin it on the out lap if he's going to clear Gasly.
01:35Valtteri Bottas now pits for Mercedes, so they brought Hamilton in, then a lap later,
01:40in comes Valtteri Bottas, and it's the hard tie. Right front's not even off yet, look. They can't get the right
01:45front off. The wheel gun has jammed, and this is not the first time this season. Valtteri Bottas has
01:53had an epically slow pit stop through no fold of his own, and they just can't get that wheel off.
02:00Right front's and Mercedes-Benz pit stops do not go well together. And look at this then, so Hamilton...
02:06out behind Gasly. Gasly out ahead of Hamilton. How am I still behind him, man? Come on!
02:13Gasly by a car length and a half is ahead of Hamilton there. Valtteri Bottas could find himself out of this
02:19race. That is it. Over for Valtteri Bottas because of a wheel nut that just would not budge.
02:25As Vettel comes in for a set of hard compound tyres, Verstappen suddenly pulled the pin,
02:33he's in the low 1 minute 15. Vettel reacting then and has that inside line as they come through
02:39Sandovat. Vettel, is he ahead of Gasly? They're going to go wheel to wheel up. Beau Ravage here.
02:44I think Sebastian Vettel ahead of Pierre Gasly. Yes, he is.
02:47What if it's happened, guys? It's lost two places. As our race leader, Max Verstappen,
02:54now comes in to make his stop. Lap 34. And that's exactly what Red Bull practice and what Red Bull
03:01hope will be the case every time. Max Verstappen stops a nice two-second stop and he's back out into
03:06the race once more. Perez now finally does pit. Where's Lewis Hamilton? Coming around to the swimming
03:14pool chicane. 60 kilometers an hour. Sergio Perez making his way down the pit lane. And Perez is
03:20going to be comfortably ahead. He has got himself up into fourth place. Okay, good job. Currently
03:27sitting P4. We've got the jump on Vettel, Gasly and Hamilton. Norris laps Ricciardo. Ooh, that hurt.
03:36That's an ouch moment, isn't it? It hurt for Daniel Ricciardo. I mean, it's, it's, uh, yeah.
03:41Right, Lewis Hamilton has enough of a gap for, to Lance Stroll behind him to make
03:48a pit stop here. They're going for the fastest lap, which at the moment is held by Yuki Tsunoda. He
03:54won't get a point for that because he's not in the top ten, but Mercedes wants an extra point for Lewis
03:59Hamilton. Well, there's the fastest lap. Then 1.12.909 for Lewis Hamilton. Fastest lap in this race.
04:07Max Verstappen past the point where he's had a couple of crashes in the past, but nothing has arisen
04:13this year to spoil Max Verstappen's party. This is going to be his first podium in Monaco. It's his
04:20first win in Monaco. Max Verstappen leads the world championship and wins the Monaco Grand Prix. What a day
04:29for Red Bull. They can celebrate. Ask us Carlos Sainz. Second place for Ferrari. They didn't get the victory.
04:36They thought was possible starting from pole, but second will do nicely as Lando Norris comes home to
04:43take third and another podium in Formula One, his third in the sport. Max, that is a fabulous drive,
04:50mate, and you're a Monaco Grand Prix winner. Fantastic. Yes. Oh, nice race. Oh, well done. I think we managed
05:01that really well, guys. Super happy. A day when Red Bull were very much the fastest. It was despair for
05:10Leclerc. Fastest for Red Bull, maybe furious for Mercedes. The championship battle continues on
05:17as we head to Baku in two weeks time, but it's Red Bull after this Monaco victory for Max Verstappen,
05:23who now lead the way.
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