2019 Monaco Grand Prix

The 2019 Monaco Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2019)^[1] was the sixth race of the 2019 Formula One season, and the sixty-sixth time the Monaco Grand Prix was held on the Formula One calendar. It was held between 23 May and 26 May 2019.

In qualifying, after Charles Leclerc got knocked out of Q1 due to not going out at the end of the session, Lewis Hamilton took pole position, scoring his eighty-fifth pole overall. Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen qualified second and third respectively.

In the race, Hamilton got a good start, while Bottas was able to keep ahead at the first corner after Verstappen took a better start than him. On lap 9, Leclerc made contact with the wall at Turn 16 and collided with Nico Hülkenberg, soon puncturing the former's right-rear tyre and leaving debris across the track as he spent a whole lap getting back to the pits. The debris resulted in the safety car being deployed on lap 11, thus giving Hamilton, Bottas, Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel the opportunity to pit at the end of the lap. However, Verstappen was released into the path of Bottas, and made contact with him before getting ahead at the end of the pit lane. Bottas was forced to take a second pit stop at the end of the next lap, therefore dropping him behind Vettel. The safety car came in at the end of lap 14, not long before the track was temporarily blocked at the start of lap 16 when Antonio Giovinazzi made contact with Robert Kubica at Turn 16, though the two drivers were able to get going again. In the closing stages, Hamilton already started to lose grip as his tyres degraded, allowing Verstappen to close in on him. However, Verstappen could not find a way past, and Hamilton held him off to take his seventy-seventh victory. With a five-second time penalty for his unsafe release and colliding with Bottas in the pits, Verstappen dropped to fourth, allowing Vettel and Bottas to take second and third place respectively.

BackgroundEdit

Drivers and teams used liveries on their cars as a dedication to Niki Lauda, after he passed away earlier in the week on 20 May.^[3]

Haas and Alfa Romeo were also confirmed to run their second-spec engines, after only Ferrari used it at the previous race in Spain.^[4]

Charles Leclerc stated that he would be determined to take his first win at his home race: "A home Grand Prix is always a very special weekend, and even more this weekend, obviously, coming here in full red with Ferrari, with also a chance to have a very good result, so we'll push. It's a huge honour for me to be driving on these streets. It's actually pretty weird, because these are the same streets... I took in the bus to go to school when I was five or six years old. So now to take them in a Formula 1 car feels special. Obviously we've had a difficult start to season. The low speed corners weren't great in Barcelona but normally Monaco is pretty different. We'll try to turn the things around. It's not going to be easy but we'll give it everything. I think during testing, we understood a few things – not enough to be at the level of Mercedes [but] I think we gained a little bit of time. Not enough, we need to keep working, we need to try and understand what's the main issue. But the engineers are working on that."^[5]

The race also marks Kimi Räikkönen's 300th race entry.^[6]

Entry listEdit

No.	Driver	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Model	Tyre
44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport	Mercedes	W10	Mercedes	M10 EQ Power+	P
77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport	Mercedes	W10	Mercedes	M10 EQ Power+	P
5	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow	Ferrari	SF90	Ferrari	064	P
16	Charles Leclerc	Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow	Ferrari	SF90	Ferrari	064	P
33	Max Verstappen	Aston Martin Red Bull Racing	Red Bull	RB15	Honda	RA619H	P
10	Pierre Gasly	Aston Martin Red Bull Racing	Red Bull	RB15	Honda	RA619H	P
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault F1 Team	Renault	RS19	Renault	E-Tech 19	P
27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault F1 Team	Renault	RS19	Renault	E-Tech 19	P
8	Romain Grosjean	Rich Energy Haas F1 Team	Haas	VF-19	Ferrari	064	P
20	Kevin Magnussen	Rich Energy Haas F1 Team	Haas	VF-19	Ferrari	064	P
55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	McLaren F1 Team	McLaren	MCL34	Renault	E-Tech 19	P
4	Lando Norris	McLaren F1 Team	McLaren	MCL34	Renault	E-Tech 19	P
11	Sergio Pérez	SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team	Racing Point	RP19	BWT Mercedes	M10 EQ Power+	P
18	Lance Stroll	SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team	Racing Point	RP19	BWT Mercedes	M10 EQ Power+	P
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo Racing	Alfa Romeo	C38	Ferrari	064	P
99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing	Alfa Romeo	C38	Ferrari	064	P
26	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda]	Toro Rosso	STR14	Honda	RA619H	P
23	Alexander Albon	Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda]	Toro Rosso	STR14	Honda	RA619H	P
63	George Russell	ROKiT Williams Racing	Williams	FW42	Mercedes	M10 EQ Power+	P
88	Robert Kubica	ROKiT Williams Racing	Williams	FW42	Mercedes	M10 EQ Power+	P
source

Practice OverviewEdit

FP1Edit

FP2Edit

FP3Edit

Practice ResultsEdit

No	Driver	Team	FP1		FP2		FP3
			Time	Pos	Time	Pos	Time	Pos
3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1:13.413	11	1:12.888	17	1:12.519	12
4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	1:14.278	15	1:12.393	12	1:12.914	16
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:12.823	5	1:11.881	3	1:12.583	14
7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1:13.363	9	1:12.342	9	1:12.308	9
8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1:13.379	10	1:12.392	11	1:12.566	13
10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull-Honda	1:13.170	6	1:11.938	4	1:11.738	5
11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-Mercedes	1:14.566	16	1:12.752	15	1:13.232	17
16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:12.467	4	1:12.350	10	1:11.265	1
18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-Mercedes	1:16.135	19	1:14.558	18	1:13.622	18
20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:13.232	8	1:12.174	7	1:12.270	8
23	Alexander Albon	Toro Rosso-Honda	1:13.827	14	1:12.031	5	1:12.338	10
26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Honda	1:13.731	13	1:12.577	14	1:12.194	7
27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:13.227	7	1:12.872	16	1:12.489	11
33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Honda	1:12.165	2	1:12.052	6	1:11.539	4
44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:12.106	1	1:11.118	1	1:11.478	3
55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	McLaren-Renault	2:00.670	20	1:12.419	13	1:12.862	15
63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1:15.115	17	1:15.052	19	1:14.305	20
77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:12.178	3	1:11.199	2	1:11.318	2
88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	1:15.514	18	1:15.146	20	1:14.086	19
99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1:13.437	12	1:12.239	8	1:12.170	6
Source: [7][8][9]

QualifyingEdit

Q1Edit

Q2Edit

Q3Edit

Qualifying ResultsEdit

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team		Q1			Q2			Q3		Grid
					Pos	Time		Pos	Time		Pos	Time
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes		2	1:11.542		3	1:10.835		1	1:10.166	1
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes		3	1:11.562		2	1:10.701		2	1:10.252	2
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Honda		4	1:11.597		1	1:10.618		3	1:10.641	3
4	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari		1	1:11.434		4	1:11.227		4	1:10.947	4
5	10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull-Honda		6	1:11.740		8	1:11.457		5	1:11.041	8*
6	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari		10	1:11.865		5	1:11.363		6	1:11.109	5
7	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault		7	1:11.767		9	1:11.543		7	1:11.218	6
8	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Honda		5	1:11.602		6	1:11.412		8	1:11.271	7
9	55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	McLaren-Renault		11	1:11.872		10	1:11.608		9	1:11.417	9
10	23	Alexander Albon	Toro Rosso-Honda		14	1:12.007		7	1:11.429		10	1:11.653	10
11	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault		15	1:12.097		11	1:11.670				11
12	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault		9	1:11.845		12	1:11.724				12
13	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari		8	1:11.837		13	1:12.027				13
14	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari		13	1:11.993		14	1:12.115				14
15	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari		12	1:11.976		15	1:12.185				18†
16	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari		16	1:12.149							15
17	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes		17	1:12.233							16
18	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes		18	1:12.846							17
19	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes		19	1:13.477							19
20	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes		20	1:13.751							20
107% time: 1:16.434
Source: [10]

• * Gasly was given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Grosjean in Q2.^[11]
• ^† Giovinazzi was given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Hülkenberg in Q1.^[11]

GridEdit

RaceEdit

ReportEdit

ResultsEdit

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	78	1h 43m 28.437s	1	25
2	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	78	+2.602s	4	18
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	78	+3.162s	2	15
4	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull-Honda	78	+5.537s*	3	12
5	10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull-Honda	78	+9.946s	8	11†
6	55	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	McLaren-Renault	78	+53.454s	9	8
7	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Honda	78	+54.574s	7	6
8	23	Alexander Albon	Toro Rosso-Honda	78	+55.200s	10	4
9	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	78	+60.894s	6	2
10	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	78	+61.034s‡	13	1
11	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	78	+66.801s	12
12	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	77	+1 Lap	16
13	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	77	+1 Lap	11
14	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	77	+1 Lap§	5
15	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	77	+1 Lap	19
16	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	77	+1 Lap**	17
17	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	77	+1 Lap	14
18	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	77	+1 Lap	20
19	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	76	+2 Laps††	18
Ret	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	Collision damage	15
Source: [12]

• * Verstappen originally finished second, but was given a five-second time penalty for an unsafe pit-stop release.^[12]
• ^† 10 points for fifth place and 1 point for the fastest lap.
• ^‡ Grosjean originally finished ninth, but was given a five-second time penalty for crossing the pit exit line.^[12]
• ^§ Magnussen originally finished twelfth, but was given a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.^[12]
• ** Stroll was given a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.^[12]
• ^†† Giovinazzi was given a ten-second time penalty for causing a collision with Kubica.^[13]

MilestonesEdit

• Kimi Räikkönen's 300th entry (298th start).
• Sebastian Vettel's 225th start (226th entry).
• Valtteri Bottas' 125th entry (124th start).
• Mercedes equals Ferrari, McLaren and Williams' record of most front-row lockouts, scoring sixty-two overall.
• Toro Rosso's first double points finish since the 2017 Spanish Grand Prix.

Standings after raceEdit

NotesEdit

1. ↑ "Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2019". formula1.com. Formula One Administration. https://www.formula1.com/en/racing/2019/Monaco.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
2. ↑ "2019 Monaco Grand Prix – Selected sets per driver". Pirelli. 14 May 2019. https://press.pirelli.com/2019-monaco-grand-prix--selected-sets-per-driver/. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
3. ↑ "Niki Lauda tributes on display in Monaco". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 23 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.gallery-niki-lauda-tributes-on-display-in-monaco.26qQbS9ZXcePq1sOzykx1F.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
4. ↑ "Haas and Alfa Romeo to run Ferrari power unit upgrade in Monaco". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 22 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.haas-and-alfa-romeo-to-run-ferrari-power-unit-upgrade-in-monaco.3VwREYGpHU3u2GG2hg3yCH.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
5. ↑ "Leclerc planning to ‘give it everything’ to win home race". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 22 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.leclerc-set-to-give-it-everything-to-win-home-race.4sqWulz3ervxwEceIhUHvz.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
6. ↑ "Raikkonen at 300: Break for rallying key to long F1 career". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 22 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.raikkonen-at-300-break-for-rallying-key-to-long-f1-career.6eqFjIcOxWnFpslIpAaPtZ.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.}}
7. ↑ "2019 Monaco Grand Prix – Practice 1 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 23 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1005/monaco/practice-1.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
8. ↑ "2019 Monaco Grand Prix – Practice 2 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 23 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1005/monaco/practice-2.html. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
9. ↑ "2019 Monaco Grand Prix – Practice 3 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 25 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1005/monaco/practice-3.html. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
10. ↑ "2019 Monaco Grand Prix – Qualifying results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 25 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1005/monaco/qualifying.html. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} "Gasly and Giovinazzi post-qualifying penalties shake up Monaco grid". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. 25 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.gasly-and-giovinazzi-post-qualifying-penalties-shake-up-monaco-grid.1P09GVB2CmnZgCnKwJdCOP.html. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4} "Monaco Grand Prix 2019 Race Results". formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 26 May 2019. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1005/monaco/race-result.html. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
13. ↑ "FIA Stewards Decision — Document No. 45". FIA.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 26 May 2019. https://www.fia.com/file/81493/download. Retrieved 27 May 2019.

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