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F1 Grand Prix race results: Sergio Perez wins Monaco GP
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez won a thrilling Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday after timing his pitstops to perfection in a wet/dry, red-flag interrupted race.
Charles Bradley
Edited: May 30, 2022, 10:24 AM
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After a belated rain-affected start, early leader Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) was too slow in making his stop for intermediate tyres, allowing Perez – who started third – to get ahead.
The second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz went straight from wets to slicks but still rejoined behind Perez, whose bold tyre strategy paid off.
Leclerc could only finish fourth, after a panicked second pitstop for slicks, behind the second Red Bull of Max Verstappen.
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2022 Monaco Grand Prix race results
Cla Driver Laps Time Interval Points 1 Sergio Perez
64 - 25 2 Carlos Sainz
64 1.154 1.154 18 3 Max Verstappen
64 1.491 0.337 15 4 Charles Leclerc
64 2.922 1.431 12 5 George Russell
64 11.968 9.046 10 6 Lando Norris
64 12.231 0.263 9 7 Fernando Alonso
64 46.358 34.127 6 8 Lewis Hamilton
64 50.388 4.030 4 9 Valtteri Bottas
64 52.525 2.137 2 10 Sebastian Vettel
64 53.536 1.011 1 11 Pierre Gasly
64 54.289 0.753 12 Esteban Ocon
64 55.644 1.355 13 Daniel Ricciardo
64 57.635 1.991 14 Lance Stroll
64 1'00.802 3.167 15 Nicholas Latifi
63 1 lap 16 Zhou Guanyu
63 1 lap 17 Yuki Tsunoda
63 1 lap Alex Albon
48 Mick Schumacher
24 Kevin Magnussen
19 View full results
How the Monaco Grand Prix unfolded
The race start was delayed due to a rain shower that soaked the famed streets, with formation laps taken behind the safety car on full wet tyres. But the rain intensified and a red flag was shown before the race had even started.
Almost an hour later, Leclerc held his pole advantage at the rolling start on Lap 3 ahead of Sainz, the two Ferraris ahead of the chasing Red Bulls of Perez and Verstappen.
With no more rain falling, the track was drying. AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly was an early adopter on intermediates and set the fastest lap of the race on Lap 6 as he set about moving his way up the order.
Perez pitted for inters on Lap 17, rejoining in fifth but lapping quickly in clear air. Leclerc and Verstappen pitted on Lap 19, the erstwhile leader Leclerc rejoining behind Perez – who now led the inter runners. Sainz stayed out up front, aiming to run his wets until he could change for slick tyres.
Esteban Ocon (Alpine) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) banged wheels over eighth place at Sainte Devote on Lap 18, Hamilton picking up some wing endplate damage. Ocon was given a 5s penalty for the clash.
Sainz pitted on Lap 22 for slicks and was followed in by his teammate Leclerc, making his second stop in an apparent panic on the Ferrari pitwall, allowing Perez and Verstappen to briefly run 1-2 on inters. The Red Bulls, wary of being stranded on the wrong tyres, stopped a lap later.
Perez rejoined in the lead, ahead of Sainz, with Verstappen (who had a huge moment as he left the pits) just in front of Leclerc. Sainz then had a huge slide on the start/finish straight, when he drove on to the wet line to challenge Perez, allowing the Mexican to escape out front and Verstappen to close in.
Mick Schumacher, Haas VF-22 crash
Photo by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Images
The race was then neutralised with a safety car when Mick Schumacher crashed his Haas at the Swimming Pool, splitting his car in half. His teammate Kevin Magnussen had also just retired from the race.
After multiple laps behind the safety car, the race was red flagged to fix the barriers. A lengthy delay ensued, with the Red Bulls switching to fresh hards and the Ferraris going for used hards.
The race restarted on Lap 33 with Perez leading Sainz, Verstappen, Leclerc, George Russell (Mercedes) and Lando Norris (McLaren).
This portion of the race was a procession, compared to what went before. Perez initially pulled out a handy gap over Sainz (who had a scare when he straightlined the Nouvelle Chicane with 20 minutes to go), who in turn was clear of Verstappen and Leclerc.
But Perez suffered front tyre graining as the race went into its final 10 minutes, allowing Sainz to close up onto his tail and the top four ran nose-to-tail in an exciting climax but no further position places took place.
2022 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix fastest laps
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Lando Norris McLaren 55 1'14.693 160.834 2
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 61 1'15.334 0.641 0.641 159.465 3
Fernando Alonso Alpine 50 1'15.882 1.189 0.548 158.314 4
Sergio Perez Red Bull 46 1'16.028 1.335 0.146 158.010 5
Max Verstappen Red Bull 47 1'16.052 1.359 0.024 157.960 6
Charles Leclerc Ferrari 46 1'16.249 1.556 0.197 157.552 7
Carlos Sainz Ferrari 47 1'16.421 1.728 0.172 157.197 8
George Russell Mercedes 42 1'16.830 2.137 0.409 156.360 9
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 51 1'17.203 2.510 0.373 155.605 10
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 61 1'17.344 2.651 0.141 155.321 11
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 59 1'17.532 2.839 0.188 154.945 12
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 54 1'17.558 2.865 0.026 154.893 13
Esteban Ocon Alpine 50 1'17.571 2.878 0.013 154.867 14
Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 57 1'17.600 2.907 0.029 154.809 15
Lance Stroll Aston Martin 56 1'17.672 2.979 0.072 154.665 16
Alex Albon Williams 40 1'18.023 3.330 0.351 153.969 17
Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo 52 1'18.200 3.507 0.177 153.621 18
Nicholas Latifi Williams 43 1'18.579 3.886 0.379 152.880 19
Mick Schumacher Haas 24 1'24.778 10.085 6.199 141.701 20
Kevin Magnussen Haas 18 1'33.754 19.061 8.976 128.135 View full results
2022 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix pitstops
Cla Driver Chassis 1 2 3 4 5 1 Sergio Perez Red Bull W 16 I 6 H 8 M 34 2
Carlos Sainz Ferrari W 21 H 9 H 43 3
Max Verstappen Red Bull W 18 I 4 H 8 M 34 4
Charles Leclerc Ferrari W 18 I 3 H 9 H 43 5
George Russell Mercedes W 21 H 9 M 34 6
Lando Norris McLaren W 17 I 5 H 8 H 29 M 13 7
Fernando Alonso Alpine W 21 H 9 M 34 8
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes W 15 I 7 H 8 M 34 9
Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo W 20 H 10 H 44 10
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin W 6 I 17 H 8 H 42 11
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri I 2 I 20 H 8 H 42 12
Esteban Ocon Alpine W 21 H 9 M 34 13
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren W 19 H 11 H 45 14
Lance Stroll Aston Martin W 1 W 2 I 22 H 6 H 41 15
Nicholas Latifi Williams W 1 I 17 H 10 M 34 16
Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo W 19 H 10 M 34 17
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri W 6 I 15 H 8 M 27 S 7
Alex Albon Williams W 18 H 4 M 7 M 26
Mick Schumacher Haas W 4 I 13 H 7
Kevin Magnussen Haas W 19 View full results
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