| 2024 Monaco Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 8 of 24 in the2024 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Circuit de Monte Carlo, Monaco | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 26 May 2024 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1Grand Prix de Monaco 2024 | ||||
| Location | Circuit de Monaco La Condamine andMonte Carlo,Monaco | ||||
| Course | Street circuit | ||||
| Course length | 3.337 km (2.074 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 78 laps, 260.286 km (161.772 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:10.270 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:14.165 on lap 63 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Ferrari | ||||
| Second | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Ferrari | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2024 Monaco Grand Prix (officially known as theFormula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2024) was aFormula One motor race held on 26 May 2024, at theCircuit de Monaco inMonaco. It was the eighth round of the2024 Formula One World Championship. The race was won by MonégasqueCharles Leclerc, his first victory since the2022 Austrian Grand Prix and his first victory at home, ahead ofOscar Piastri andCarlos Sainz Jr., who completed the podium.
Leclerc became the firstMonégasque driver sinceLouis Chiron in1931 to win his home Grand Prix, as well as the first Monégasque driver to win theMonaco Grand Prix as a Formula One World Championship event.[2] The Grand Prix also marked the first race in the history of the Formula One World Championship to have the top ten drivers finish the race in grid-order, and the first since the2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to have the top 3 drivers who completed the podium.
This was Ferrari's first victory in Monaco since Leclerc's former Ferrari teammateSebastian Vettel took the win in the2017 edition of the race.[3]
The event was held at theCircuit de Monaco inMonaco for the 81st time in the circuit's history, across the weekend of 24–26 May.[4] The Grand Prix was the eighth round of the2024 Formula One World Championship and the 70th running of theMonaco Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship.[5]
Going into the weekend,Max Verstappen led theDrivers' Championship with 161 points, 48 points ahead ofCharles Leclerc in second, and 54 ahead of his teammateSergio Pérez in third.Red Bull Racing, with 267 points, led theConstructors' Championship fromFerrari andMcLaren, who were second and third with 212 and 154 points, respectively.[6]
The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race.[7]
Tyre supplierPirelli brought the C3, C4, and C5 tyre compounds (the softest three in their range) designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively, for teams to use at the event.[8]
Threefree practice sessions were held for the event.[1] The first free practice session was held on 24 May 2024, at 13:30 local time (UTC+2),[1] and was topped byLewis Hamilton ofMercedes ahead ofOscar Piastri ofMcLaren and Hamilton's teammateGeorge Russell. A brief red flag was observed when debris was scattered across turn 1 after theSauber ofZhou Guanyu made contact with the wall.[9] The second free practice session was held on the same day, at 17:00 local time,[1] and was topped byCharles Leclerc ofFerrari ahead of Hamilton andFernando Alonso ofAston Martin.[10] The third free practice session was held on 25 May 2024, at 12:30 local time,[1] and was topped by Leclerc ahead ofMax Verstappen ofRed Bull Racing and Hamilton. A red flag was observed after the Sauber ofValtteri Bottas struck the wall at the swimming pool section, causing suspension damage.[11]
Qualifying was held on 25 May 2024, at 16:00 local time (UTC+2).[1]
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The race was held on 26 May 2024, at 15:00 local time (UTC+2), and was run for 78 laps.[1]
The race wasred-flagged on lap 1 after a crash betweenSergio Pérez,Nico Hülkenberg andKevin Magnussen, all of whom retired. Magnussen had brought his car into Pérez's line, which would see the two make contact. Hülkenberg tried to pass the crash, but his rear was struck by Pérez's car.Zhou Guanyu, who was behind the three drivers, slowed down to avoid crashing.[16] The crash resulted in heavy damage to the barriers and a large amount of debris being spread across the first corners.[2] Red Bull estimated a£2.5-3 million cost to repair Pérez's car.[17] Meanwhile, Leclerc's teammateCarlos Sainz Jr. picked up a puncture after contact with second-placedOscar Piastri and dropped down to sixteenth, running wide into the casino corner, and as the Alpines exited Portier,Esteban Ocon squeezed himself into the path ofPierre Gasly, pitching his own car upward. Ocon, who admitted responsibility for the incident, retired during the red flag period. The stewards investigated the Magnussen and Ocon incidents; deeming the former to be a racing incident, while the latter would later be given a five-place grid penalty for the followingCanadian Grand Prix.[18] Sainz, who was running in sixteenth, benefitted from the red flag facilitating a grid reset, as Zhou had not passed the first timing sector before the race was suspended.[16]
The early red flag was a big deciding factor for the rest of the race strategy - drivers were able to swap to a second tyre compound during the red flag, eliminating the need for pit stops for the rest of the race. Of the top ten, only Hamilton and Verstappen made further pit stops after gaining a wide enough lead over Tsunoda to do so without losing track position.[19][20] The resulting no-stop strategy required a very slow pace from the drivers in order to manage tyres, with Piastri commenting that at one point the pace was "slower than Formula 2."[21] The following season, the FIA passed a new rule requiring all drivers to run three different sets of tyres at Monaco alongside the usual rules of two different compounds, with the explicit goal of making the race more entertaining.[22]
Leclerc kept the lead following the restart to win the race ahead of Piastri, who scored his first podium of the season forMcLaren, Sainz, andLando Norris. This was Leclerc's first race win since the2022 Austrian Grand Prix, and Ferrari's first Monaco Grand Prix victory sinceSebastian Vettel took the win in2017. Leclerc became the firstMonégasque driver sinceLouis Chiron in1931 to win his home Grand Prix, and the first to win it as aFormula One World Championship event.[2]
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That contact lifted Oco's car clean into the air, and although he made it back to the pits, there was too much damage for him to take the restart.
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