MONACO – Sergio Perez recovers from Red Bull The team’s command denied him a chance to race to victory a week ago to claim his first Formula One win of the season in rainy Monaco. grand opening.
Perez earns for the third time in his career F1 triumph over the slick streets of Monaco after a dubious strategic call by Ferrari led babysitter Charles Leclerc to win his home match.
Although Leclerc finished the race for the first time in four tries, he finished fourth and allowed the defending world champion Max Verstappen to extend his lead in the points standings. Carlos Sainz Jr finished second for Ferrari and Verstappen finished third for Red Bull.
Verstappen currently leads Leclerc by 9 points in the standings; Leclerc has two wins this season, Verstappen and Perez combined for five while Red Bull and Ferrari have won all seven.
But victory came to Verstappen’s teammate just a week after Perez was ordered to cede the lead to Verstappen in the Spanish Grand Prix. Leclerc dropped out of the race due to an engine failure and Red Bull chose to take advantage by manipulating the finish to help Verstappen win in Spain.
The team had promised Perez that he would be allowed to race to win and have been claiming since Sunday.
“You dream of this victory, and after the race at home, there’s no more special place to win,” Perez said after waving a Mexican flag.
Leclerc took the lead from the pole and shouted angrily when asked to change the tire for a second time on Lap 22 – at the same time as Sainz. His engineer realized the mistake and shouted “stay away!” but it was too late and Leclerc was back on track in fourth place.
“What are you doing?” Leclerc shouted.
After the race, he gave a presentation about Ferrari.
“No words, no words. We can’t do that,” he radioed.
Leclerc also won pole a year ago but never started because he had trouble at the end of qualifying, and the car’s transmission broke down just before kick-off. In 2018 and 2019, Leclerc withdrew from the race due to crash damage.
The race was delayed by 70 minutes because of heavy rain and started from scratch behind a safety car. It was then red-flagged for Round 30 after Mick Schumacher’s three-round crash earlier cut his Haas car in half. He got out unharmed.
Schumacher said: “I’m fine, I’m very, very sad that I couldn’t finish the race.
George Russell finished fifth for Mercedes front McLarenLando Norris and the Alpine Mountains of Fernando Alonso. Seven-time F1 Champion Lewis Hamilton eighth for Mercedes – extending his winless streak with the Silver Arrows to eight races – while Valtteri Bottas is ninth for Alfa Romeo and the 10th Sebastian Vettel for Aston Martin.
Schumacher’s post-collision restart was once again a safe-car rear-rolling start. But lengthy delays and red flags shortened the race from 77 laps to a timed race so it ended at the local curfew.
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