Formula One champion Max Verstappen's lights-to-flag victory at the Monaco Grand gave the Red Bull driver his fourth victory of the season and extended his championship lead to 39 points over teammate Sergio Perez on Sunday.
Spanish veteran Fernando Alonso was a season's best second for Aston Martin as he collected a fifth podium in six races, albeit 28 seconds behind Verstappen, while Frenchman Esteban Ocon secured third place and a rare podium for Alpine.“It's super nice to win it in the way we did today with the weather and everything to stay calm and bring it home,” Verstappen said.But an incident-free race in Monaco is rare and heavy rain played havoc with about 20 of the 78 laps left.
“Braking was extremely fragile,” Alonso said. “I think everyone did an amazing job today to keep the cars on track.”“It was a super weekend from everyone at the team,” Ocon said. “I hope this is the first of many .” Verstappen's 39 F1 wins have all been with Red Bull since his first on debut for the team at the Spanish GP in 2016 when he became the youngest F1 winner at 18 years old.
Eventually Verstappen started losing time and wanted to pit for new tires but his team told him he'd fall behind Alonso if he did that.
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