What a way to start the day: Nico Rosberg sneaks in for Monaco win
The greatest day in racing started with a surprise in Formula 1.
Nico Rosberg won his third-straight Monaco Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton, who dominated the race after starting on the pole position, pitted for a second time.
Rosberg and Hamilton are teammates and have been the season’s dominant duo for Mercedes. They were running 1-2 when the safety car came out for a crash involving Romain Grosjean and Max Verstappen. Verstappen slammed incredibly hard into the foam barriers on the outside of turn one.
Hamilton had a lead of over 20 seconds at the time of the crash. A full-course caution was issued and his team, apparently thinking he had enough time to pit and rejoin the race in first thanks to the massive lead, called Hamilton into the pits.
He exited the pits in third, behind Rosberg and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. When the race restarted with less than ten laps to go, the top three stayed the same. Hamilton, despite having fresher tires than both Rosberg and Vettel, couldn’t get around Vettel to make a charge at his teammate. Rosberg ended up winning easily.
Rosberg is the first driver to win three-straight Monaco races since Ayrton Senna won five in a row from 1989-1993. With 168 of the day’s 1,268 scheduled miles complete, it’s now time to turn our attention to the Indianapolis 500.
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