Monaco

The steak of 1-2s for Mercedes continues, five from five so far in 2019, matching the current record for consecutive 1-2 finishes.

Not quite the magnificent Monaco GP we had hoped for, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been, it got better throughout.

The Monaco GP, one of the oldest races that is still going today, first raced in 1929, with the general layout of the street circuit not being too different from that of today.

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Monaco was probably even crazier than usual yesterday. It started under the safety car due to the weather and ended dry.

Monaco! The race where half the grid ignore the silly helmet rule and have a special helmet anyway.

Perhaps the most exciting part of the weekend, apart from Max Verstappen going wheel-to-wheel with Pastor Maldonado at Monaco, was the decision by Mercedes to pit Lewis Hamilton under the safety car. Or maybe it was the social media reaction afterwards. One of the main criticisms of race winner Nico Rosberg was the fact he had the audacity to celebrate …

What started off as a rather boring Monaco GP didn’t end too badly, unless your name is Lewis Hamilton.

It’s Monaco time, the slowest race in F1 and the only exclusion to the 305km race distance rule.

What an absolutely insane Monaco GP that was, controversy, Mercedes domination, dirt in the eye and points for Marussia.