Event statistics following the sixth race of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, the 76th Monaco Grand Prix at the 19-turn, 3.337-kilometer (2.074-mile) Circuit de Monaco.
Daniel Ricciardo led from start-to-finish for his second victory of the season, becoming the third driver this season in six races with two victories. He led fellow two-time 2018 race winners Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton to spots on the podium.
Monaco Grand Prix
Circuit de Monaco – Monte Carlo, Monaco
- Winner (starting position): Daniel Ricciardo (1st)
- Podium: Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton
- Full Results: Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Valtteri Bottas, Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, Nico Hulkenberg, Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz Jr., Marcus Ericsson, Sergio Perez, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne, Romain Grosjean, Sergey Sirotkin, Lance Stroll, Charles Leclerc, Brendon Hartley, Fernando Alonso
- Laps Completed: 78
- Race Leaders: 1
- Laps Led: Daniel Ricciardo (78)
- Pole Position: Daniel Ricciardo (1 minute, 10.810 seconds)
- Hard Charger: Max Verstappen (+11; 20th to 9th)
- Fastest Lap: Max Verstappen (161.772 kph)
- Margin of Victory: 7.336 seconds
- Car Count: 20
- Cars Entered: 20
- Cars Running at Finish: 17 (of 20; or 85 percent of the field)
- Drivers to Finish on Lead Lap: 13
- Average Speed: 151.750 kph/94.293 mph
- Lead Changes: 0
- Race Time: 1:42:54.807
- Weather at Start of Race: 73 degrees Fahrenheit, partly cloudy, winds ESE 12 mph
Notes of Interest – Race/Weekend Recap
- This is Daniel Ricciardo’s second victory of the season and the seventh of his career, all with Red Bull Racing. It marks his first victory in the Monaco Grand Prix.
- Ricciardo is one of three drivers to win this season. Points leader Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, second in the points standings, also each have two wins in 2018.
- Ricciardo led all 78 laps, becoming the first driver since his Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen to lead every lap of a grand prix. Verstappen led every lap of the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix in October 2017. This is the first time in his career Ricciardo has led every lap of a race.
- Ricciardo is the 34th driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix as part of the Formula 1 World Championship. He is the second Australian to win the race (Mark Webber, 2010 and 2012), giving Australian drivers a total of three Monaco Grand Prix wins.
- This is the second season in which Ricciardo has recorded multiple victories. He won a career-high three grand prix in 2014. Overall, Ricciardo has won races in each of the last three seasons and four seasons total.
- This is Ricciardo’s first victory from the pole position. Previously, his best start en route to victory was fourth (2014 Hungarian Grand Prix and 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix).
- Ricciardo’s victory marks the third race this season in which the polesitter also won the race. Sebastian Vettel (Bahrain) and Lewis Hamilton (Spain) also won from the top starting spot.
- This is the 29th time since 1950 that the polesitter went on to win the Monaco Grand Prix. In the last 23 races, a driver from the front row has won the Monaco Grand Prix 19 times. It is the first time a polesitter has won at Monaco since 2014 (Nico Rosberg).
- This is Ricciardo’s second podium finish of 2018 and the 29th of his career. It is his fourth podium in the last five Monaco Grand Prix.
- Ricciardo has led two races this season; he’s won both races in which he’s led in 2018. He has now led 90 laps this season, the second most of any driver (Sebastian Vettel has led a season-high 139 laps).
- In the four races which Ricciardo has finished this season, his average finish is 2.75. He’s also finished fourth (Australia) and fifth (Spain) in the other two races he’s finished.
- Ricciardo now has two career pole positions – both at Monaco (he won the pole for the 2016 event en route to second in the race.
- Ricciardo became the 16th driver in a row to lead Lap 1 of the Monaco Grand Prix after starting on the pole (Juan Pablo Montoya was the polesitter in 2002 but failed to lead the first lap).
- Ricciardo has finished the first lap in the same position he’s started in during all six races this season.
- This is Red Bull’s fourth victory in the Monaco Grand Prix and first since Mark Webber won in 2012, the final of three straight Monaco victories by the Austrian outfit. It is also Red Bull’s first win at Monaco since the track was altered for the 2015 race.
- As it did in its 100th and 150th grand prix, Red Bull also won its 250th, at Monaco.
- Defending Monaco Grand Prix winner Sebastian Vettel finished second, his first podium since winning the second race of the season (Bahrain). It marked Vettel’s 102nd career podium and third this season.
- Vettel has now earned points in each of the last 10 races (dating back to the 2017 United States Grand Prix), his worst finish during that stretch an eighth-place result in this year’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
- Despite not leading a lap for only the second grand prix this season, Vettel remains the leader of the most laps this season, with 139.
- In 11 Monaco Grand Prix starts, Vettel has two wins and six podiums, and has only failed to finish the race twice.
- Lewis Hamilton finished third, his record-extending 31st consecutive Formula 1 grand prix having scored points. Hamilton hasn’t finished any worse than fourth in a grand prix this season.
- Like Vettel, Hamilton now has two victories and six podiums at Monaco.
- Finnish drivers took over the next two positions, with Vettel’s Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen finishing fourth, his fourth finish of fourth or better in the four races he’s completed in 2018. Raikkonen won the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix.
- Valtteri Bottas finished fifth, his fourth top-five finish of the season. With Raikkonen and Bottas finished fourth and fifth, it marked the first grand prix in 2018 that a Finnish driver failed to finish on the podium, and ends a nine-race streak overall.
- The last time the top five finishers completed the race in exactly the same positions they started was the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix.
- French driver Esteban Ocon finished a season-best sixth, his second points-paying result of 2018, while fellow Frenchman Pierre Gasly was seventh, also notching his second points finish of the season. Gasly was the highest-finishing driver to improve on his starting position (started 10th), as each of the top six drivers finished exactly where they started.
- After failing to finish each of the last two races, Nico Hulkenberg was eighth.
- Ninth was Max Verstappen, who charged 11 positions after starting last. Those 11 positions were the most a driver advanced from start to finish. Verstappen also set the fastest race lap, the first time he’s accomplished that feat this season.
- The final points-paying position, 10th, went to Carlos Sainz Jr., who gave Renault two drivers in the top 10 for the first time since the Chinese Grand Prix in April. Sainz has finished in the points in five of six races this season.
- Kevin Magnussen was the final driver to complete the race on the lead lap, finishing 13th.
- Lance Stroll was 17th, two laps in arrears of the winners, the final driver to finish the race.
- Charles Leclerc, the first Monaco-born driver to compete in the Monaco Grand Prix since Olivier Beretta in 1994, and Brendon Hartley were involved in an incident late in the race, each completing 70 laps before retiring. Leclerc suffered apparent brake problems and hit the back of Hartley’s car, forcing his first career F1 retirement and Hartley’s second career DNF.
- Fernando Alonso, a two-time Monaco winner, was the race’s first retirement, dropping out after 52 laps with gearbox problems. It was Alonso’s first Monaco Grand Prix since 2016, after competing in the Indianapolis 500 instead of Monaco in 2017.
- The next round of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship is the Heineken Grand Prix of Canada on June 10 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.
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