Nico Rosberg won the Monaco Grand Prix 2013

by AllAutoExperts    |  8 May, 2013

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Nico Rosberg (holder of pole position for the third consecutive time in this season) managed not to record problems with the tires from the previous two races and kept the leader position throughout the entire race. He managed to successfully passing of the first pit entrance, of that two inputs of the Safety Car on the track and of the stopping almost about 20 minutes of the race after an incident between Max Chilton and Pastor Maldonado.

His teammate, Lewis Hamilton, seemed to be able to retain the second place obtained in the terms of the qualifications on Saturday, but the first entry of the Safety Car from the 30th tour forced the pilots of the Mercedes AMG to enter the pits at the same time. For this reason, the British lost valuable time and was overtaken by Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, who had progressed in that way on second and third places with no stand out overtaking maneuvers.

Sergio Perez (the McLaren team pilot starting with this year) was one of the protagonists of the race after being impressed by successive overruns during the race against teammate Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso's. However, in trying to get the fifth place, the Mexican crashed with Kimi Raikkonen and was forced to abandon, while the Lotus team pilot entered the pits, returned on the 16th place and finished on the 10th after a quick series of overruns due to significantly faster tires.

Adrian Sutil (Force India) profited most from the Perez-Raikkonen incident and finished on the fifth place at the end of the race, in which surpassed Button and Alonso by similar hairpin maneuvers.

Monaco offered numerous incidents that require neutralization of the race. Felipe Massa, who suffered an identical accident in 30th tour to that, happened on Saturday training, made the start. After abandoning by hitting metal rails, generated first appearance of the Safety Car.

The race was resumed in the 39th tour, but it was interrupted for nearly 20 minutes in the 46th tour after a hooking between Max Chilton and Pastor Maldonado. The pilot Williams bumped powerful into the parapets from Tabac turn, which fell the most of the width of the track circuit. The pilots took the opportunity to change the tires, Raikkonen being the only one of top 10 who chose the tires soft, but in the 62nd tour the safety car has returned to the circuit after Romain Grosjean hit from behind Daniel Ricciardo, both being forced to abandon.

The best time in the race was set by Vettel, which was clocked to 1:16.577 in the 77th tour.

MONACO - RACING RESULTS

  1. Rosberg        Mercedes
  2. Vettel         Red Bull-Renault
  3. Webber         Red Bull-Renault
  4. Hamilton       Mercedes
  5. Sutil          Force India-Mercedes
  6. Button         McLaren-Mercedes
  7. Alonso         Ferrari
  8. Vergne         Toro Rosso-Ferrari
  9. Di Resta       Force India-Mercedes
  10. Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault
  11. Hulkenberg     Sauber-Ferrari
  12. Bottas         Williams-Renault
  13. Gutierrez      Sauber-Ferrari
  14. Chilton        Marussia-Cosworth
  15. van der Garde  Caterham-Renault

DNF. Perez          McLaren-Mercedes

DNF. Grosjean       Lotus-Renault

DNF. Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari

DNF. Bianchi        Marussia-Cosworth

DNF. Maldonado      Williams-Renault

DNF. Massa          Ferrari

DNF. Pic            Caterham-Renault

World Championship standings, round 6: Drivers: Constructors: 1. Vettel 107 1. Red Bull-Renault 164 2. Raikkonen 86 2. Ferrari 123 3. Alonso 78 3. Lotus-Renault 112 4. Hamilton 62 4. Mercedes 109 5. Webber 57 5. Force India-Mercedes 44 6. Rosberg 47 6. McLaren-Mercedes 37 7. Massa 45 7. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 12 8. Di Resta 28 8. Sauber-Ferrari 5 9. Grosjean 26 10. Button 25 11. Sutil 16 12. Perez 12 13. Ricciardo 7 14. Hulkenberg 5 15. Vergne 5

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