F1 | 2024 Monaco F1 Grand Prix Result, Lap by Lap, Review & Summary

Another Monaco Grand Prix has passed and the latest edition of F1’s most glamourous and important race was won by Charles Leclerc which was a popular victory for so many reasons. He and all the drivers had to drive the entire race on one set of tyres after a Red Flag stopped the race after a few hundred metres because of a sizeable crash. Talking of sizeable, here is our 2024 Monaco F1 Grand Prix Result Summary which covers both races and anything else of interest.

This 2024 Monaco Grand Prix Result, Lap by Lap, Review & Summary gives you just enough to catch up with. With just a hint of cynicism, bias, opinion and colour. The perfect bite sized review for those who couldn’t be bothered, or don’t have enough time. 

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2024 Monaco F1 Grand Prix Result Race Summary

Didn’t see the race live? Don’t have time to watch the whole race? Here’s where we capture the laps where stuff happened. We write these live as we go, sort of like a minute by minute for the football, but marginally more interesting.

Setting the scene – In a riveting qualifying session Charles Leclerc took pole position, which in fairness looked highly likely throughout. Hopefully he starts the race, unlike one year where he won pole and never started. Behind him it could have been anyone, and it was. Oscar Piastri took second ahead of Carlos Sainz, while Red Bull struggled. Max Verstappen lined up a mopey sixth and Sergio Perez, well he ended up 18th. That became 16th after both Haas’ were disqualified from qualifying for rear wing errors. That might seem harsh, but back in the day they would have been excluded from the whole meeting. Maybe F1 didn’t want to exclude another American team in F1. Race day is dry, so the mixed up grid will take some shaking with very limited overtaking available. Safety Cars could be key. As is the start. Carnage awaits we think. 

GRID (Starting Order) – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

Lap 1 – Pole sitter Charles Leclerc gets away well up the very short sprint to the first corner and keeps first place. Behind him Carlos Sainz almost gets the better of Oscar Piastri up the inside but the McLaren fights back and keeps second around the outside. A few seconds later as they go up the hill the Ferrari has pulled over and is out of the race. Further around Piastri is really harassing Leclerc. Then comes the Red Flag….wouldn’t have thought for Carlos Sainz surely, as he pulled off the track out of harms way. The McLaren and Ferrari appeared to slightly touch, enough for Sainz’s car to be affected. Some would say payback for Miami for Piastri. But that is surely not the reason for a red flag?

No, cameras pan back to the hill after the start where there is two Haas cars and the remnants of Sergio Perez’s Red Bull, missing four wheels, front and rear wings, and most of the rest. He’s OK, his car most certainly isn’t. There are bits of car everywhere, much like the F1 equivalent of a back yard covered in prickles. The accident was Kevin Magnussen’s fault, as he tags the rear left of a slow starting Perez, and the Red Bull clips the other Haas of Hulkenberg, and all three cars are likely to not make the restart. Guanyu Zhou is probably thanking himself for making not a great start as he was far enough behind to slow down and avoid it all. 

More replays while we waited show the two Alpines coming together, with Ocon launching in the air as they approached the tunnel. Solid driving – pushing your team mate into the wall near the ocean front and then clipping the tyre because you didn’t do that good enough. Clowns. Could be another two cars stuffed. How wonderful for action fans that some of the drivers have left their brains behind today.

With a barrier needing fixing and track needing sweeping it will take a while. Let’s see whose car is good enough to start. 

RACE RED FLAGGED

So the race will restart from a standing start, and from the same order as the first start. Carlos Sainz is the luckiest man on the grid so far as he gets to restart from third despite retiring from the first start. The crashed cars do not restart. That includes Esteban Ocon after his team mate bashing effort.

Meanwhile in front of the grid news the McLaren and Ferrari have restarted on the hard tyre instead of the medium from the first start. Which means technically they don’t have to stop now. Further behind Mercedes and Max Verstappen are on the mediums now. Interesting.

(Starting Order Again) – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

The second start gets underway as Leclerc leads away well again, and unsurprisingly Sainz behaves a little better this time, helped with a better start from Piastri. No dramas further back this time as the field appears to get through the first flying lap of the GP ok. 

ORDER – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

Lap 6 – The front three are pulling away a little, with small gaps opening up to Norris then Russell then Verstappen. The only Red Bull left is already 6.6 seconds and in sixth, behind the leader on the third full racing lap since the restart. Bit of a change to the usual.

Lap 10 – Ten laps in, and time to check the gaps at the front. As not much has happened otherwise. Piastri is just within a second to Leclerc. Sainz is almost a second behind Piastri. Norris is just over a second behind Sainz. George Russell is a full six seconds behind Norris with two more to Verstappen, who is already being told to conserve tyres. 

This race is going to need pit stops and/or rain. But still, it’s Monaco, so watching the skill and scenery is enough at this hour.

ORDER – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

Lap 14 – Oscar Piastri sets a fastest lap then sets about chasing Charles Leclerc. He’s close enough to ask for directions, but better keep to himself as Carlos Sainz is sniffing equally behind him.

Lap 20 – Not much has changed in the top four currently, with the gaps going back and forth. Notably George Russell in 5th is a full ten seconds + behind.

Lap 26 – One third distance gone now, and the gaps between the top four have become slightly bigger, all between one and two seconds. George Russell is 13 seconds behind in fifth. Given these cars might go all the way without a pit stop for tyres, this could get very dull. We need a below average driver to do something stupid and cause a Safety Car or something. Thankfully both Lance Stroll and Logan Sargeant remain in the race. Talking of below average, we almost forgot about Daniel Ricciardo. He’s 13th and in a train of drivers being held up by Fernando Alonso of all people. One does wonder how long Ricciardo has left based on the amount of screen time Liam Lawson has got this weekend.

ORDER – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

Lap 43 – Still the same order except for a pit stop for Lance Stroll. Not sure if anyone from outside the top ten have also pitter as we fell asleep. If they did who cares. Stroll comes out in just enough time to be lapped. The top three are separated by just over two seconds and Norris is bucking the trend to be nearly one second behind Sainz.

ORDER – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

Lap 50 – Something interesting – Lance Stroll has a left rear puncture and he just makes it into the pitlane without causing some kind of safety car.

Lap 52 – Ahh, a pit stop. Something. It’s Lewis Hamilton coming in for new tyres. Why not, he’s 40 odd seconds ahead of Tsunoda in 8th. A lap later Max Verstappen pits too. They put on hards. How boring.

Lap 54 – An overtaking move!!!! It’s Valtteri Bottas passing Logan Sargeant into the Mirabeau corner for 13th. Good stuff and brave. 

Lap 56 – Lando Norris is really on Carlos Sainz’s tail for third now. With the gap to George Russell almost a pit stop away, the top four can consider a tyre stop. Norris may not need one. But it would sure be interesting. 

Lap 58 – Lance Stroll is charging through the field with an overtake in the tunnel. Amazing move.

Lap 63 – Max Verstappen putting George Russell under big pressure with new tyres. Max put on fresh hard tyres, while George Russell’s tyres are a race old. Imagine if someone put softs on up the front. 

Lap 69 – Ten laps to go and the Norris > Sainz battle has slowly become a Piastri > Sainz battle. The Australian driver is struggling a little and is under a second in front. Meanwhile Norris is staying close to Sainz as well. This could be interesting as Piastri must now defend for his second place, that he thoroughly deserves. For the record Leclerc is seven second up the road. Verstappen is still within a second on Russell too. 

Lap 73 – Piastri seems to be really struggling right now but thanks to Monaco should be hard to pass. The worry is Sainz isn’t the cleanest overtaker in the business. Hopefully Piastri can hold on.

Lap 76 – Three laps to go and second and third still up for grabs. It should remain as per grid, but who knows how desperate Sainz and Norris are to advance. Given Max Verstappen is behind and Championship improvement is available they might not be too bold.

FINAL LAP – Charles Leclerc cruises around the final lap and takes victory on his home track winning comfortably. Piastri holds on for second just ahead of Sainz and Norris. Max Verstappen settles for sixth in between the two Mercedes. That’s now four different winners this season and three different winners in the last three races. The 2024 season starting to build into something good.

FINAL ORDER (Across the line) – LEC PIA SAI NOR RUS VER HAM TSU ALB GAS

Here we go through the field and highlight the very best (Great) of the race, and the plodders, the over-ambitious, the out of luck, and simply hopeless (Grape).

These points get added to our Driver of the Season scores. points for a great nomination, and -5 for the worst or grapest driver in the pack. Then it is +2 /-2 for honourable or dishonourable mentions.

THE GREAT-EST – CHARLES LECLERC

On it all weekend, took pole with a Verstappen-like ease, and he backed it up in the race leading all the way. Finally winning from pole position and on his home track. Let’s hope this Ferrari pace keeps up away from the street circuits.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

OSCAR PIASTRI – Second on the grid and best of the rest for a lot of the weekend. Looked fast and doubled down in the race this time, which has been a little bit of a weakness in 2024.

GEORGE RUSSELL – Another race of over-shadowing his illustrious team mate.

YUKI TSUNODA – Made Q3, beating his team mate in the process. Sergio Perez had a shocker of a weekend, meaning the Red Bull drive for 2025 is a little closer. Plus a solid top ten driver on Sunday. He has certainly seen off Daniel Ricciardo, which is his minimum 2024 goal.

THE GRAPE-EST – SERGIO PEREZ

Red Bull struggled for sure around Monaco, hell even Max Verstappen could only manage sixth on the grid. But the car isn’t 18th quickest like Perez’s effort in qualifying. His reward for qualifying so low was to be among the Haas cars who were banished to the back of the grid. He was then taken out by one of those Haas cars up the hill on lap one and ran into the other Haas. Race over. 

DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS

HAAS – Strange that F1 thinks the Andretti team will devalue F1, when Haas pull off a weekend like they did. Decent qualifying ruined by an illegal rear wing, followed by a race ending crash for both drivers a few hundred metres into the race. Possibly bonus sh!tlist points for Kevin Magnussen who could be suspended for a race given his license points means one more bad penalty could see him hit the maximum allowed, given it looks he was fault for the crash on lap one with Perez. 

ESTEBAN OCON – Ridiculous move on his team mate on lap one saw his car launch in the air, but land safely. It had damaged the car enough to ensure he didn’t make the restart.

FERNANDO ALONSO – Eliminated in Q1, ran in the lower midfield for most of the race. Especially disappointed when he looked like he could be a bit of a wildcard this weekend.

MAX VERSTAPPEN – Proved he and his Red Bull are human after all. Well, one of them isn’t, but the car was certainly not as dominant as per the previous two and bit seasons of racing. Sixth on the grid was an ok effort, but who knows how long his downturn will last.

DANIEL RICCIARDO – Needed a big Monaco Grand Prix. Eliminated in Q2 when his team mate made Q3. Tsunoda claimed points, Ricciardo was stuck in a traffic jam out of the points. Not enough for a Red Bull drive in 2025. Nor an RB drive in 2024.

CARLOS SAINZ – Harsh? Probably. But he was behind his team mate all weekend, got lucky with the second start and is running out of good teams to drive for in 2025.

Was it a good race, loads of action, a tense ending, a surprise result or DNF, or just a big, fat, snooze-fest?

We rate the big race itself, so we know which races to go back and watch in the off season or one to simply remember the winner for the post season quiz nights.

ON TRACK ACTION – 3 / 10

First lap crash that caused a red flag was a good start, as was the brief battle between Piastri and Sainz. Then we got a second standing start for fun. That was the extent of the action.

ANY SURPRISES? – 4 / 5

Well qualifying was surprising enough with Max Verstappen and Red Bull so far off the pace. It is probably just this circuit where the other teams are ahead, but still promising that Red Bull won’t win all of the remaining races.

SEASON IMPORTANCE – 4 / 5

Similar to above, this race and weekend as a whole showed that Red Bull are beatable, and that there’s more than one driver and/or team that can take it to Red Bull. 

ENDING  6 / 10

The Piastri / Sainz / Norris battle at the end was a nervous watch for those with an interest. Plus some back market overtaking was welcome relief.

OVERALL RATING 17 / 30

A race bookended well, but plenty dull in the middle. That’s Monaco. 

2024 F1 Season Power Rankings

Stay tuned for our Power Rankings from the race soon as it is currently being calculated and will be ready on Monday.

Why not check the latest race ratings – 2024 Emila Romagna Grand Prix Ratings

Or check out our 2023 Season Driver Rankings and Stats