Andrea Stella: "A fantastic day in Monaco, as we secure the team's first victory in the Principality since 2008. Lando put in an impressive performance on the way to an important win. Monaco is never an easy circuit to win at, and his ability to control the race helped secure this win today. On Oscar's side, we would have loved to have scored a 1-2, but passing Charles would have been very difficult, as is often the case in Monaco. The mandatory three tyre rule posed some very interesting challenges coming into today's race, and I'm proud of how we executed the Grand Prix. My thanks as always go to the whole race team, specifically the strategy team and pit crew who withstood huge pressure to deliver a great result, and of course all the men and women at McLaren who contributed to this historic victory today."
Christian Horner: "We rolled the dice today. It didn't work and our best chance was a safety car or a red flag or VSC as you're never going to overtake on track here. We went long with Max and he led a lot of the laps today but ultimately had to take that final stop. For Yuki we did the inverse, and pitted him on lap one, initially it looked like he would get significant benefit from it but then everyone started to drive extremely slowly, as they started playing around with their tactics. He was basically on the same set of tyres for the whole race and did his fastest laps at the end there when he finally got some clear air but it was done by then; an extremely difficult for him today. So, damage limitation today. We have only given away three points to Oscar, the Championship leader and we go into Barcelona within a race win and that was the target to hit this regulation change."
Scuderia Ferrari HP got the best result that was logically possible in the Monaco Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc having missed out on pole by a whisker yesterday, coming home where he started in second place, while Lewis Hamilton who started seventh because of a three place grid penalty, made his way back up to fifth. The team thus leaves Monaco with a total of 28 points in the bag, it's best haul of the first third of the season. It is now just five points off second place in the Constructors' standings.
Charles and Lewis maintained their second and seventh places off the grid and on lap 15, the Englishman moved up to fifth when Fernando Alonso and Isack Hadjar, who had started ahead of him, made their first stop. Once in clean air, Hamilton was able to push for two laps, thus able to overcut his two rivals and consolidate his position. Norris made his first stop on lap 18 which promoted Leclerc to the lead, until he came in four laps later to switch from Medium to Hard tyres, so that once again he was behind Norris. Charles, who once again was voted "Driver of the Day" by Formula 1 fans, was third for much of the race because Verstappen was out of synch with McLaren and Ferrari in terms of pit stops, clearly hoping for a late red flag to mix things up, but the Ferrari driver was effectively always second. The obligatory for this race second stops did not change the shape of the race, the only difference to previous years being the pace at which it was run. The leaders didn't need to manage their tyres and pushed hard to the extent that only five cars completed the full race distance.
Following on from Imola and Monaco, this European triple-header ends in Spain. Next Sunday, the ninth round of the season takes place on the demanding Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.
Fred Vasseur: Overall, we can be pleased with this result because today we got the most we could from the race, especially considering how difficult it is to overtake here.
With Lewis' penalty we effectively had just one car to take the fight to the two McLarens, which put us slightly on the back foot. However, Charles did a very good job managing that situation and putting constant pressure on Lando (Norris), while Lewis showed strong pace, getting back up to P5 until he got caught in traffic.
In recent races we've made a step forward in high-speed corners, and this weekend we've also seen progress at low speed, which is encouraging. We need to keep working and focusing on ourselves in order to continue in this vein.
George Russell finished P11 with Kimi Antonelli P18 in a frustrating 2025 Monaco Grand Prix for the team. After a tough Saturday, with our drivers lining up P14 and P15, the team opted to start the race on the Hard compound and run long.
That was due to the mandatory two stop regulation which saw all three compounds in use at the start. Ultimately it would be a frustrating afternoon for George and Kimi with cars ahead playing the team game, slowing their speed to enable their team-mates to complete their mandatory stops.
In the closing stages, George benefitted from Kimi's teamwork to make his two mandatory pit stops and retain P11. That was despite having earlier had to take a drive-through penalty having illegally overtaken the Williams of Alex Albon at the Nouvelle Chicane. The team was ultimately unable to bring home any points but heads to next weekend's Spanish Grand Prix still holding P2 in the Constructors' Championship.
Toto Wolff, Team Principal & CEO: Today was just not our day. Starting P14 and P15 was going to be a challenge, and we knew about this from the start. There were no scenarios that could have brought us some points and hoping for a red flag or a Safety Car was the only option available to us. Saturday's Qualifying penalized us for today's race, and that's usually the case in Monaco when you start further back in the field.
It was a frustrating race for our team, and I am sure many fans didn't enjoy the spectacle. As a sport, we will look at the mandatory two stop regulation and see how we can avoid these situations in future. Monaco is still one of those incredible events though and an unbelievable spectacle. It is an entertaining weekend, but it is no surprise that Saturday is almost more important than race day itself. We must make sure to not lose the magic of Monaco, whilst creating the best racing we can around these narrow streets.
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director: Today is a big disappointment for the team. However, starting so far down the grid, we did not expect any other outcome from this race. Our strategy here was relying on potential red flags and incidents which, in the end, never occurred.
From Free Practice to Qualifying, we struggled with the car balance, the tyres and it made difficult for the drivers to build their confidence and to find the pace for better timed laps on Saturday. We were not good enough yesterday and that really sealed the fate of our weekend. All we can do is dust ourselves down and come back stronger next weekend. We leave Monaco with a lot of things to work on and many improvements to make. We will be working flat out in the next few days to offer a better level of performance in Barcelona and get back to fighting for the podium.
Andy Cowell, CEO & Team Principal: "We really feel for Fernando today. A power unit issue appeared just after his pit stop and, despite managing it for a while, we eventually had to park the car. Until then, we had done everything right and had a great opportunity to score a decent amount of points. Lance's race was clean and tidy, but it proved difficult to progress up the field. The mandatory two stops rule didn't really open up many opportunities, although some of our competitors used team tactics to favour one of their cars."
Flavio Briatore: "It was always going to be an uphill task given our starting positions. With Pierre, we wanted to try something different by pitting early and seeing what opportunities might come to us. Then he had an incident with Tsunoda and that was the end of Pierre's race. As we saw, other teams played games with some interesting takes on strategy. Franco did a good job, made no mistakes had good pace with what he could do in traffic and I am sure many learnings for him and a boost in confidence. Fundamentally, we are not fast enough. We will see in Spain at a more complete track with some intrigue around new wings. We will see how we fare."
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Esteban Ocon seventh and Oliver Bearman 12th, at the Monaco Grand Prix, held Sunday at the Circuit de Monaco.
Ocon took the start from eighth place on Pirelli P Zero Yellow medium tires and maintained position on the opening lap, before coming in on lap 16 for medium tires. Ocon made his second mandatory pit stop on lap 28, coming out on White hard tires, and cycled back through into eighth place, which became seventh when Fernando Alonso retired from the race. Ocon chased Racing Bulls' Isack Hadjar through to the checkered flag and collected seventh position, adding six more points to his and MoneyGram Haas F1 Team's tally.
Bearman started from 20th position on medium tires and pitted at the end of the opening lap for hard tires, coming out at the rear of the pack but using the clear air to set the fastest lap. Bearman came in again on lap 17 for medium tires, emerging in 19th position, and re-joined the rear of the midfield train. As drivers made their second compulsory stops Bearman worked his way up to 12th position, a gain of eight places.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team holds sixth position in the Constructors' Championship, on 26 points.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal: "It's great for the team to get P7 with Esteban. Of course, there were so many scenarios in this race - so starting P8 and finishing P7 was a really good result. With Ollie starting from P20 we had to try something different, and we didn't quite get it right in terms of execution, but we tried everything. There were cars in front playing certain games so he couldn't make progress, but at some point, if it wasn't for the extreme gamesmanship, he would've had the chance to get up to P10. I think that's the best we could've done, but Ollie did have the pace this weekend, so he's learned a lot and it puts him in good stead for next year. The good thing was that the car was quick and drivers had pace, so the next race in Barcelona, it's a high-downforce circuit with a couple of high-speed corners, I think we're looking forward to it."
James Vowles, Team Principal: It's great to walk away with points with both drivers and brilliant to watch Alex and Carlos execute really strong teamwork to achieve that. We need to review the rules and regulations for Monaco, because racing like this feels wrong and I want us to be racing on performance and merit, and we're not quite there yet. Looking ahead to Barcelona, let's keep this run going. That's three races in a row with double points and there's lots of opportunity ahead of us.
The win, pole position and the fastest race lap for Lando Norris. Having given McLaren its first Monaco pole position in 18 years yesterday, today the Englishman added its first win here after a 17 year break. The last time a car built in Woking had won in the Principality dates back to 2008, when Lewis Hamilton, who finished fifth today, was first past the flag. This was Norris' sixth Formula 1 victory, the second this year after the one at the opening round in Australia. Today the McLaren driver also scored his third career hattrick, after those in Zandvoort in 2024 and in Melbourne this year. McLaren now has 195 wins to its name, consolidating its position as the most successful team in Monaco with 16 wins.
Also on the podium were the local hero, Ferrari's Charles Leclerc for whom this was his second podium of the season and his second at this race and Drivers' Championship leader, Oscar Piastri.
The shape of the race was conditioned by the rule stating that all drivers had to use three sets of tyres, one of them being from the obligatory specified compounds, the Medium and Hard. All the drivers conformed to the rule, while Bortoleto actually stopped three times, as he had to make an additional stop after crashing into the guardrail on the opening lap.
The majority of drivers went for a combination of Medium and Hard, while the drivers from the six teams who had only one set of the C5 and C4 each, used all three compounds. There was a very wide variety of stint lengths. Some drivers, such as Tsunoda (Red Bull) did 72 laps on a set of Hards after just doing the opening lap on a set of C6, before finishing with three laps on the Mediums.Others, including the three drivers on the podium, split their race into more equal length stints: Norris did 19 laps on his first set of Mediums and then used two sets of Hards (31 and 28 laps); Leclerc did the first 22 laps on the Medium before doing 27 on the Hard and then finishing with 29 on Mediums; Piastri did the same as his team-mate (20-28-30). Verstappen, who finished fourth, made his second stint on Mediums as long as possible (49 laps) before having to pit again on the penultimate lap when he was leading.
Mario Isola: "It's not easy to give a verdict in the heat of the moment on the race that's just ended, but I believe it's fair to say that it was well worth trying something different in such a unique Grand Prix as this one. One has to say that the new regulation introduced for this event certainly got people talking about what might happen in the race, both those inside the sport and also the fans. While it's true that the first four past the flag finished in grid order, it is also true that there were five changes of leader, with three different drivers involved, while behind them there was plenty of action, certainly more than usual, and more than we saw last year for example.
"Honestly, I think that overall, the spectators at the track and those watching on television, even if they were not majorly entertained, were certainly not bored, which has often been the case in races that haven't been enlivened by unusual circumstances such as rain or safety cars. In the end, this is Monaco, take it or leave it: qualifying that leaves you with your heart in your mouth and a race where overtaking is almost impossible. Only after a careful analysis of the race, can everyone involved deliver an accurate verdict on this experiment.
"On the tyre front, as expected the Medium and Hard were the most used compounds: both proved capable of being able to cover almost the entire race distance without the need to pit. It's possible the Medium required a bit more management, but overall, its level of degradation was more than acceptable. This weekend the C6 proved to be a good qualifying tyre, but above all, it played a tactical role, obviously pushing the teams to use the Medium more and, let's not forget that this tyre was the Soft last year. That was exactly our goal and we await with keen interest to see how it will perform in Montreal, another type of track."
