Lewis Hamilton Rekindles Formula 1 Title Fight with Monaco Grand Prix Victory

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Published: May 29, 2016

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In 2015, a pit stop error cost Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton the Monaco Grand Prix.

On Sunday, a mistake in the pits by the Red Bull team handed him a victory in the principality. 

Pit stops are always important in Formula One, but that importance is magnified in Monaco's tight confines, where overtaking is so difficult. Despite looking quicker for most of Sunday's race, Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was left sitting in his pit box for about 10 seconds, waiting while the team scrambled to find the correct tyres for his car.

The delay allowed Hamilton to jump into the lead, where he stayed for the final 46 laps of the race.

Hamilton's win is a welcome result for anyone hoping for a close fight in the drivers' championship. His team-mate, Nico Rosberg, had a 39-point lead heading into the Monaco race after winning the first four grand prix races of the season. That gap is now down to 24 points (a win is worth 25) after Rosberg finished seventh in Monaco.

Rosberg's winning streak, which included the final three races of 2015, ended with Max Verstappen's surprise victory earlier in May at the Spanish Grand Prix. Mercedes have not gone two races in a row without a win since the Hungarian and Belgian Grand Prix races back in the summer of 2014, but it nearly happened in Monaco.

Instead, Hamilton drove a perfect race in tricky wet-to-dry conditions, taking advantage of Red Bull's error and the tight confines of the Monte Carlo streets to steal his first win of the season.



In a televised interview after the race, Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Mercedes parent company Daimler AG, told Sky Sports' Ted Kravitz the win was important for Hamilton's confidence and to even out the "imbalance" in the team.

That was a reference to the mechanical issues Hamilton has suffered throughout the season, including during Monaco qualifying. Those problems cost him a chance at vic...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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