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Gasly was penalised twice, meaning he copped a 10-second time penalty when he crossed the finish line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gasly dropped from third to seventh, leaving the Frenchman devastated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Honestly, I am just heartbroken,” the Alpine driver said post-race.<\/p>\n
“I just can’t get my head around what happened. It just doesn’t sound fair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Triple-checked with the team, they say it’s the right speed in the car. On both occasions, I’ve put the pit limiter [on] way before the line.”<\/p>\n
Alpine requested a right of review of the penalties post-race.<\/p>\n
Russell’s team failed to serve his five-second penalty when he came in for a second time under the safety car. That infringement led to the Brit being handed a drive-through penalty that knocked him out of the points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
3. Verstappen out on the first lap<\/p>\n
The start to this year’s Monaco Grand Prix was supposed to be a shootout between a rising star and a legend.<\/p>\n
Championship leader Kimi Antonelli was lining up on the front row alongside four-time world champion Max Verstappen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This presented Red Bull’s best chance at a win in 2026, if Verstappen could get a great launch and lead into the first turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In reality, Verstappen’s race was over as soon as the lights went out.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman had no power in his Red Bull, which spluttered off the start line and crawled around the track for one disappointing lap before retiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The formation lap was not going very well. After that, the pre-start was terrible; there was just no consistency,” Verstappen told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
“Then the engine just dropped out.<\/p>\n
“I only got a little bit of power back after the first corner, and then the engine sounded really awful.”<\/p>\n
Verstappen was the first challenger to fall in a race that became a war of attrition and cleared a path for Antonelli to victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
4. Hamilton rises to second with Kim K watching on<\/p>\n
In case you didn’t see it on social media, or any of the several cutaways in the television broadcast, Kim Kardashian was at the race.<\/p>\n
She was there cheering on Lewis Hamilton, with the pair appearing to be a couple, according to social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clearly one for good timing, Kim’s first race was a beauty for Hamilton, who claimed a well-earned second place in Monaco.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was Hamilton’s eighth podium in Monaco, tying the record with the great Ayrton Senna.<\/p>\n
The second-place finish, along with George Russell failing to score, moved Hamilton to second in the drivers’ championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is a remarkable result considering how dominant the Mercedes team has been through six rounds. But consecutive grands prix without a point has dearly cost Russell.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Antonelli now leads the drivers’ championship by 66 points to Hamilton and 68 to Russell.<\/p>\n
There is a long way to go in this season, but for one more weekend, the momentum was with the Italian championship leader.<\/p>\n
5. Cadillac has its maiden F1 point taken away<\/p>\n
For an hour, F1’s newest team thought it had scored its first point in F1.<\/p>\n
Mexican Sergio Perez, who started in the wrong grid box and copped a drive-through penalty, had finished 11th but was upgraded to 10th after Audi’s Nico Hulkenberg was penalised for causing a late crash.<\/p>\n
The American outfit had its first point in F1, but there was an asterisk as Perez was being investigated for another standing start infringement.<\/p>\n
This time it was during the restart after the red flag, and stewards deemed the Mexican had not lined up in his grid box properly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perez was penalised, and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, who crossed the line 12th, was awarded 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli started the Monaco Grand Prix on pole, led every lap, and won…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,13275,817,826,33584,823,825,347646,41683,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-721720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-monaco-f1","tag-monaco-grand-prix","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}