Historic Carlos Sainz: finishes second in Monaco behind Verstappen | Monaco GP Formula 1

Dressed in red and in Monaco, impossible not to get excited. Carlos Sainz got the third podium of his career in Formula 1 at the Monaco Grand Prix with a second place to remember. Leclerc’s abandonment and Mercedes’ pit stop error with Valtteri Bottas, in addition to his great pace throughout the weekend, allowed him to get his first podium since becoming a Ferrari driver. Max Verstappen was the winner of the fifth Grand Prix of the season and leads a World Cup that is being spectacular. For his part, Fernando Alonso signed a great start and finished in thirteenth position after a weekend of many difficulties for Alpine. The Spaniard had a very bad classification and was once again overtaken by his teammate, an Esteban Ocon who finished in the points zone. The Monaco Grand Prix changes everything: Red Bull wins the game against Mercedes, who signs the worst weekend so far in the World Cup with the seventh place of Hamilton and the abandonment of Bottas. MAX WINS IN MONACO !! After 78 laps the Dutchman comes home for his first win in Monte Carlo, ahead of Sainz and Norris! #MonacoGP 🇲🇨 # F1 pic.twitter.com/hdTMtchA4n- Formula 1 (@ F1) May 23, 2021 The afternoon started with the great surprise of the abandonment of the poleman, a Charles Leclerc who could not go out on the track due to mechanical problems after crashing his car on the last lap of qualifying. The one who had become the first Monegasque in history to sign pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix the day before was not going to be able to fight for victory at home. Maximum penalty for Leclerc and opportunity for Carlos Sainz: the Madrid native had a great chance to get the third podium of his career on a circuit as special as Monaco. Another of the drivers who came out strengthened from the Leclerc Ferrari incident was Max Verstappen , that could turn the World Cup upside down. Especially because of the starting position of Lewis Hamilton. The seven-time world champion started seventh on the weekend with the least pace so far this season. Excitement was running high before the start of the Monaco Grand Prix, one of the most special circuits of the Grand Circus Clean start in Monaco Few things happened at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix, but all of them good for the interests of the Spanish. Carlos Sainz withstood the attempted onslaught of his great friend Lando Norris and Fernando Alonso overtook Yuki Tsunoda and the two Williamses – Nicholas Lafiti and George Russel – to ascend to fourteenth position. For his part, Max Verstappen resisted against a good start from Valtteri Bottas: everything remained the same in the first positions after a very clean start in Monaco. THE MADNESS BEGINS! 🚥 Follow the race live https://t.co/9Sd0gummKr#MonacoDAZNF1 🇲🇨 pic.twitter.com/aNMJE8rFaz- DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) May 23, 2021 We already know the Monaco Grand Prix. The difficulty to overtake on the track is enormous, so beyond strategies, safety cars or errors in the stops, the options for the drivers are very scarce. Little happened in Monaco until the first stops, just the excitement that any Formula 1 fan feels when watching the cars roll on this very special circuit Horrible stop and abandonment for Bottas I was riding at a great pace Valtteri Bottas, but fate he wanted to add another episode in the great jinx of the Finnish driver at Mercedes. An engineer was unable to remove the wheel and Bottas finally had to quit. A very bad weekend for Mercedes, who brought Carlos Sainz closer to the podium who rose to second position. Two laps later, Sainz’s stop was perfect: the possibility of seeing him in red for the first time on a podium was already more than real. 😲 It’s TOTAL DISASTER for Bottas! 😲 That wheel DOES NOT COME OUT. And @ Carlossainz55 gets SECOND! 🔥🔥 # MonacoDAZNF1 🇲🇨 pic.twitter.com/2sFQ60M5kD – DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) May 23, 2021 After Mercedes’ mistake, a new career began. More than 40 laps in which Carlos Sainz could not make a single mistake to complete his first podium with Ferrari. And that happened: the former McLaren was impeccable and closed his first great afternoon as a Maranello driver. His second place in Monaco in 2021 will remain for everyone’s memory: great performance throughout the weekend rounded off with a great Sunday in which he had that bit of luck that he did not smile at him during qualifying. A Spaniard returns to a podium in Monaco so many years later: Carlos Sainz begins to write his story at Ferrari.