![]() ![]() Alonso, having realised that the track was now much wetter, followed him in to do the same.īehind, on their new intermediates, Ocon, Hamilton and Gasly all gained about seven or so seconds on the Red Bull just in the middle sector on that lap. On lap 55, with the rain coming down increasingly heavily, Verstappen was struggling on worn slick tyres and even hit the wall at Portier before coming around to the pits to take on intermediate tyres. When Alonso made his stop on lap 54, he had made up more than five seconds on Verstappen in that one lap, and was eight seconds behind. Monaco Grand Prix: 'A weekend of illusions but Alonso entertains'.Chequered Flag Podcast: Monaco Grand Prix review.Verstappen, in front of Alonso and on heavily worn mediums he had been using for twice as long as intended because he was delaying a stop waiting for rain, did not stop that lap.Ĭlearly, Alonso and Aston faced a difficult decision. "They said: 'There's gonna be a short shower, we don't know the quantity but it shouldn't be not too heavy.' I said: 'We go for the dries, we go for dries.'" "I asked about the forecast." Alonso said. So the conditions he was experiencing as he came around to the pits on lap 54 would have been less wet than those of the cars behind him as the rain moved in. Conditions were changing rapidly, the rain steadily increasing and, as usual with Monaco weather, teams' forecasts were not giving a clear picture.Īlonso was more than 24 seconds ahead of Russell, and well over 30 ahead of Ocon, Hamilton and Gasly. The question in hindsight is: what would likely have happened had Alonso and Aston Martin fitted intermediate tyres at the end of lap 54 - as did Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, and Alpha Tauri's Yuki Tsunoda?įirst, some context. ![]() Leader Max Verstappen and his Red Bull team chose not to stop at the end of lap 54, and the world champion lost a lot of time as he slithered around on his worn medium tyres before pitting for treaded intermediate tyres at the end of lap 55. Race report: Verstappen beats Alonso to win rain-affected Monaco GP."We will look into it, learn from it and try to do better next time." "The calls are made in a very short amount of time and then you have to live with it," he said. ![]() Krack said the team would "play everything back". ![]()
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