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23/5/2021
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00:00Monte Carlo, but we're back, and who's going to take it this afternoon?
00:05It's lights out, and away we go.
00:07Bottas got away well, Verstappen comes over to cover him,
00:10and does cover up the Mercedes in the sound of all.
00:12Bottas locks up, he's in second.
00:14Carlos Sainz, there comes Lando Norris, taking the inside line.
00:18There was Esteban Obron.
00:19Black Ben, Perez, is the fastest man,
00:23or the man prepared to go the fastest, shall we say, up there at the moment.
00:27What do you do if you're Mercedes in this situation?
00:31You're back second and a half behind that.
00:33And the other car, yeah, what can we do?
00:35Wheel that's absolutely shredded,
00:37and as Vettel comes in for a set of hard compound tyres,
00:43that's going to release Sainz and co.
00:45Perez needs to be getting on with it,
00:47and really pumping in some laps as well.
00:49Verstappen suddenly pulled the pin.
00:51He's in the low 1 minute 15.
00:53Vettel reacting then, and has that inside line
00:56as they go through Sainz, Levan, Vettel,
00:58is he ahead of Gasly?
00:59They're going to go hill to wheel,
01:00that bow revanche here.
01:01Sebastian Vettel and Pierre Gasly, oh, what has happened?
01:04We need to know who's going to come out in front
01:07as we see Lance Stroll hitting the barrier
01:09and going over the curve one more time.
01:12I think Sebastian's second pit stop
01:13at the 750 Grand Prix in the Formula 1 World Championship
01:18for Williams Grand Prix Engineering
01:20and for Williams Racing as they are now.
01:23This is Daniel Ricciardo.
01:25And Kimi Räikkö, Räikkönen stop,
01:27has allowed Ricciardo to gain,
01:29put some pressure on the fin.
01:31On the fin, even.
01:33Still, out of Sanford, got back.
01:35Well, he did say coming into this race,
01:38changes need to be made at Monaco.
01:39You just can't overtake any more.
01:42That mindset may be transferring through.
01:45It's a difficult day, but I can't help thinking
01:48if you're the scooter here,
01:50that it could have been so much more today.
01:52Well, absolutely.
01:53That will be the big talk at the end of this race.
01:56What could?
01:56Yeah, it's all pretty static, isn't it?
01:58Hamilton is UUing between, sort of,
02:01back and forth to the gearbox of Pierre Gasly,
02:03who's sick.
02:05And then the next best fight, the best fight,
02:07is Giovannazzi on the back of Esteban Offen.
02:10Yeah, the Scrap, the ninth place.
02:14Now he's just got his head down,
02:16and all of a sudden,
02:18it doesn't look quite so undriveable, in fact.
02:21Other than Hamilton,
02:22he was fastest man on track last time around.
02:25This is the Yuki Sonoda moment.
02:27Oh yeah, Ted was right.
02:29He was heading to the paddock,
02:31the long way.
02:32That's the man we...
02:37Never led it in his life before.
02:41Starts another lap,
02:43and has now five laps to go,
02:45here in Monaco,
02:46as the lady who will be waving the chequered flag
02:49this afternoon,
02:50Suriata.
02:51Plenty of drama to come,
02:53later on in the day,
02:54final day of the Premier League season,
02:56final round of the USPGA,
02:58Golf as well,
03:00and the drama coming to its conclusion,
03:02here in Monaco,
03:03very, very soft.
03:05Ferrari have Charles Leclerc running to the garage
03:08to lead the cheers for his teammate,
03:10Carlos Sainz,
03:11who's done a magnificent job for Ferrari
03:13to put them back on the podium here in Monaco.
03:16Leclerc have Lando Norris in third at the moment,
03:19his teammate Daniel Ricciardo down at 12,
03:21and Norris, I think,
03:22has put away the threat of Sergio Perez
03:25for this race,
03:27it has to be said.
03:30Max Verstappen,
03:31what an afternoon it has been,
03:33right from the moment
03:34that Ferrari gave up
03:37with Charles Leclerc
03:39and trying to,
03:40as you dared to point out earlier on,
03:43for the first time ever
03:44in his Formula One career.
03:48Largely, of course,
03:48we've seen so much Mercedes dominance
03:50through the phase of Max's career,
03:52but he's really getting the job done now,
03:56isn't he?
03:57This turns the tables on the season,
03:59there's no doubt about it.
04:00Yep, he's come into an era
04:01in Formula One
04:02that the Mercedes have dominated.
04:04I mean,
04:04surely by now,
04:05Max Verstappen would have taken more wins,
04:07more poles,
04:07would have led the World Championship,
04:09and it hasn't been the case.
04:11But Red Bull has started this season
04:13with a car that is much more competitive
04:15in relation to the Mercedes
04:17who have had their problems
04:19here in Monaco this weekend,
04:20and Red Bull have taken full advantage.
04:23Max Verstappen passed the...
04:27Well, a day when Red Bull
04:32were very much the fastest.
04:35It was to spare for Leclerc.
04:37Fastest for Red Bull,
04:39maybe furious for Mercedes.
04:41The championship battle continues on
04:45as we head to Baku in two weeks' time,
04:47but it's Red Bull
04:48after this Monaco victory for Max Verstappen
04:50who now lead the way.

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