Three former Monaco Grand Prix winners, Kimi Räikkönen, Daniel Ricciardo, and Fernando Alonso, all finished one lap down on race winner Verstappen and out of the points in 11th, 12th and 13th places respectively. Lewis Hamilton, in seventh, used a late race tyre change to challenge for the race's fastest lap, earning one extra championship point. This was also Alfa Romeo's first point of the season. Sebastian Vettel and Antonio Giovinazzi scored their first points of the season, finishing fifth for Aston Martin and 10th for Alfa Romeo, respectively. Pérez, in fourth, closed in on Norris but was unable to pass him before the race ended. The podium was formed by the same drivers in those positions at the halfway point of the race: Verstappen in the lead, Sainz in second, and Norris in third. Pérez used pit strategy to improve to fourth, which is where he finished the race. ![]() Sergio Pérez led most of lap 35 before being called into the pits at the end of the same lap, and this meant that Verstappen officially led all laps through the pit stops. Verstappen pitted for fresh tyres on lap 34. Bottas later retired at his scheduled pitstop on lap 30, when his team was unable to remove his right front wheel due to a stripped wheel nut, promoting Carlos Sainz to second place and Lando Norris to third. ![]() At the start of the race Valtteri Bottas got away slightly better than Verstappen, but the latter was able to cover off the former to take the lead into the first corner. ĭue to Leclerc's failure to start the race, pole position on the grid was left empty, leaving Max Verstappen as the de facto polesitter, though he lined up in the second grid position. Ferrari later discovered the issue was caused by a cracked left-rear driveshaft hub. There was not enough time to repair the problem before the race, and thus Leclerc did not start in the race. On race day, Leclerc brought the car out from the pits on the reconnaissance lap out to the grid, and a failure in the left driveshaft was detected. The primary concern was Leclerc's gearbox, but it was cleared, and it was expected that Leclerc would start on pole. įerrari inspected Charles Leclerc's car overnight after his crash in qualifying. The penalty was nullified as he would start from last place regardless. ![]() He also received a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change. He was permitted to race at the stewards' discretion. ^1 – Mick Schumacher did not take part in qualifying due to an accident that occurred during the third practice session.Mick Schumacher was not able to participate in qualifying due to a heavy crash in the final practice session. Championship leader Lewis Hamilton had his worst qualifying since the 2018 German Grand Prix, and qualified outside the top two for the first time in 2021, qualifying seventh. Lando Norris had his best qualifying result of the season and qualified fifth. ![]() Qualifying Ĭharles Leclerc qualified on pole despite crashing in the final minutes of Q3, whilst Max Verstappen joined him on the front row having qualified second, Valtteri Bottas shared the second row with Carlos Sainz having qualified third and fourth respectively. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C3, C4 and C5 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium and soft respectively) for teams to use at the event. The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. Further information: 2021 Formula One World Championship § Entries
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