Formula 1's most unique track could not hold back its most dominant driver of the year, with or without rain.
Yesterday, Max Verstappen needed a wall-to-wall-perfect third sector to take pole for the Monaco Grand Prix. It suggested that Red Bull's advantages, the ones that have made Verstappen so dominant all season, were not as impactful at the short, narrow Monaco street circuit, and gave Alpine, Ferrari, and Aston Martin hope that Verstappen could be fallible today. That was certainly not the case.
Verstappen ran away with today's Monaco Grand Prix, starting by pulling a small gap from Fernando Alonso in the early laps. The margin had grown to ten seconds around lap 50, but late-arriving rain threw a wrench in the works that could have potentially put the Red Bull lead driver in trouble.
In the end, Verstappen won by nearly 30 seconds in what was supposed to be the most contested race of the year to date for Red Bull. Although he needed a starring performance to take the pole that is so important at a track where passing is difficult, the drive to win looked relatively easy. Verstappen and Red Bull have reached a point of fastest-car, fastest-driver harmony that has typically rendered the entire rest of a season moot.
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