00:00And one of the great motor races begins in five lights time.
00:05And the Monaco Grand Prix is underway.
00:08We get the launch from the line from Charles Leclerc.
00:11He's going to maintain the lead. Could be second place for Ferrari.
00:13They go side by side with Piastri and Sainz duking it out.
00:17But the Australian driver kept second place.
00:19The top four, the top five, as they were,
00:21as Leclerc gets the launch that he needed.
00:23But is that a problem? Is that an issue?
00:25Looks like the spark's out on the back of the car for Sainz.
00:28He has got a problem. He's off and he's out.
00:30Carlos Sainz on the opening lap was the wheelbanging between those two
00:34because the Spanish driver is out on the opening lap of the Grand Prix.
00:38There must have been a touch then, Sainz and Piastri.
00:40Piastri was so brave at the first corner, hanging it round the outside.
00:44The wall then pinches in on the exit
00:46and there must have been a slight touch between them.
00:49Watch Piastri, watch Oscar Piastri in second place.
00:51He's all over the back of the Scala Ferrari, trying to chase his way by.
00:55Can he force his way past the Nouvelle Chicane?
00:58Would have been bold, but the McLaren firing up their tyres so quickly.
01:03One Ferrari out immediately and the red flag is flying on lap one of 78.
01:08Oh, that's a big crash that we didn't see further back.
01:11Most important thing to see.
01:12Look, no front left, no front right.
01:14But Perez thankfully out of the car and a huge amount of debris,
01:19but extraordinarily four cars out on the opening lap.
01:23This is the touch then for Sainz.
01:25Oh, it's a little one, but just carbon fibre there at the edge of the floor for Piastri
01:29and Sainz knows he's got a puncture immediately.
01:31Watch Perez, it's going to be down the inside.
01:33It's Magnussen with the clip that causes the accident
01:37and that's a massive hit into the wall.
01:39He doesn't back out, does he?
01:40He just never...
01:41It's not in his DNA for Kevin Magnussen to back out.
01:43So Perez must have had a pretty bad start to be down there with both Haas cars.
01:48So Hülkenberg might get a view of this, or was he the...
01:51I think he was ahead, wasn't he?
01:52Well, that's Perez ahead.
01:53So Magnussen sneaks up the inside of Hülkenberg.
01:55Yeah, and Magnussen's going to be on the right-hand side.
01:57That's where the contact is going to be.
01:59Well, I mean, Magnussen will say that Perez should have opened...
02:02given him a bit more space to go side by side up there.
02:05Are you OK, Nico?
02:07Ah, damn it.
02:08That was unnecessary.
02:10Yeah.
02:12So this is going to be the angle, I think.
02:15There's the gap, and he's already touched the wall himself
02:18and then just keeps his foot in.
02:19He just never backs out.
02:20He's on ten points on his license.
02:22You'd think he'd be cautious at the moment.
02:23That's going to be him gone.
02:25That is Esteban Ocon chancing one at Portier.
02:28The two Alpines come together.
02:33What did he do?
02:34What did he do?
02:35What did he try to attack?
02:37Oh, my gosh.
02:39The old car is damaged now.
02:42I can tell you Esteban Ocon is in the garage,
02:45having his car looked at, and that is why.
02:48We were able to establish an order,
02:51but the order for the restart has been given
02:53as signs in third position.
02:56That is a huge let-off for the Spanish driver.
03:01We're underway and racing once again
03:04on the streets of Monaco.
03:05It looks like a good launch for Oscar Piastri.
03:07He's got nowhere to go, though.
03:09Charles Leclerc maintains the lead once again.
03:11Lando Norris was close with Carlos Sainz,
03:13but it's George Russell who's got the better traction
03:15with that medium tyre.
03:16Can he get close?
03:17No, he can't.
03:18Top five, top six, as they were off the line.
03:20Will we make our way through this sequence of corners unscathed?
03:24This time we will,
03:25and everyone will be trying to bring the tyre temperature in.
03:29I can't imagine he's feeling too comfortable there.
03:33He is measuring the pace.
03:35He can fluctuate it as he likes.
03:37He's now on this lap a second slower than the lap before,
03:39and that's why Piastri is right with him.
03:41But when you have the bright yellow car in your mirror,
03:44it's that close.
03:44That was less than three tenths
03:46into the best overtaking place on the circuit.
03:48Piastri's only about half a car from throwing a lunge.
03:51You can't be sitting too comfortable if you're in that position.
03:54This is really close now.
03:58Schultz managing, I guess,
04:00because that was close with Piastri.
04:02One lap, he might accept it.
04:04Carlos Sainz agrees with Jolyon Parva.
04:09Aston Martin can do something here
04:10because they have both cars 11th and 12th.
04:13They are now giving up Alonso's race
04:14to get a big gap to Stroll.
04:18So Stroll can have a pit stop and go and attack Gasly.
04:20So Alonso's managing this pace still.
04:22Even though he's on a medium tyre,
04:23he's just keeping Ricciardo here
04:24and it's frustrating for a driver
04:26that has so many big lunge overtakes in his career.
04:29He's not able to do one just yet.
04:32And my word,
04:34Lance Stroll is making a pit stop.
04:36Something is happening in the pit lane in front of us.
04:392.3 seconds and all of Alonso's work
04:42has built a gap for his Canadian teammate.
04:47Just for your info, I think you have a round.
04:50I mean, do you want to know about him?
04:52No, Charles, we're not interested, we know.
04:55You said, all right.
04:57No, we are not interested.
04:59That's rude.
05:00Sorry.
05:03Oh no, Stroll's got a puncture.
05:06Stroll has a puncture and his amble up to the back of Pierre Gasly
05:11will not happen.
05:13That's the carcass off the rim.
05:14Stroll back to the pit lane
05:16and that deletes the chance of seeing some pressure later on.
05:23It's Valtteri Bottas, driver in 13th position.
05:27And he's in 13th position
05:28because he's going to go to the inside.
05:31And we've got an overtake at Monaco.
05:34Valtteri Bottas gets by.
05:36He's passed Logan Sargent at Mirabeau.
05:38What a move.
05:38Best of the race.
05:41And it's very fast at this stage of the tunnel
05:43for Lance Stroll, who had to back off,
05:46but did eventually get through
05:47down to the Nouvelle Chicane on those soft tyres.
05:50He had better tyres, got the run on acceleration,
05:53but then had a moment of doubt.
05:55It's an overtaking bonanza.
05:57Another one for Stroll.
05:58Another one.
05:58He's got another driver and he goes past Logan Sargent.
06:04Oh my word.
06:05More than a brush.
06:06Double touch there, I think, from Joe and Sargent.
06:09I would say the highlights reel of this one
06:11is not going to be the longest.
06:13Yeah, good luck to the editor.
06:15And this is Logan Sargent overtaking Joe Guanyu
06:19and getting up to 15th place.
06:20And he did that whilst he was making his way through the traffic.
06:25In 2017, Charles Leclerc lost his father.
06:28And in these final days,
06:29he told his father a white lie,
06:31that he'd made it to Formula One,
06:34that he'd signed the contract.
06:36It wasn't true then,
06:37but his driving has made it true now.
06:40And look what he's done with the opportunity.
06:43The grandstands he saw built as a kid growing up
06:47now rise for him.
06:49And for the first time in 93 years,
06:53this fabled race is won by one of their own.
06:57Charles Leclerc wins the Monaco Grand Prix
07:00to achieve his dream, victory in his home race.
07:05Well done, Charles Leclerc.
07:08It's mission accomplished.
07:10Destiny fulfilled.
07:11You've got that one forever.
07:14We won it.
07:16Finally.
07:17Yes!
07:19Yes!
07:22Yes!
07:23Yes!
07:26When your home race includes memories of waiting with your friends
07:31to get on the school bus,
07:33when he's looking up at the balcony where he first watched the Grand Prix,
07:36that's more than special.
07:39That's pure emotion for Charles Leclerc.
07:43And the party starts right now
07:46for Monaco's favorite son.
07:48And even the Prince is getting in on the action.
07:51Because when one of your own
07:52have won the most famous Grand Prix of the lot,
07:55you've got to party.
07:57And I'll see you soon.
07:58.
