Monaco rarely fails to deliver drama and the 2023 edition was no exception. None of that could upset Max Verstappen though, as the world champion added some more amazing numbers to his and Red Bull’s record books. But there were also plenty of stats to marvel at further down the order as well…
• Verstappen’s victory means Red Bull is unbeaten in Monaco this decade after its third successive win here.
• Verstappen’s 39th win for Red Bull is a new team record, surpassing Sebastian Vettel’s 38 wins.
• Verstappen has yet to finish lower than second in a Grand Prix this season.
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• Verstappen led the 2,000th lap of his F1 career today, making him the seventh driver in history to reach that milestone.
• Red Bull passed Lotus (5,623 laps) for fifth place in the all-time laps led table today.
• Fernando Alonso, at 41, is the oldest driver to stand on the podium in Monaco since Jack Brabham in 1970.
• Alonso’s second place was his best result since the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix, where he was also second.
• It was Alonso’s fifth podium finish in Monaco, but his first since 2012.
• His third place for Alpine was Esteban Ocon’s third career podium finish after Sakhir 2020 and Hungary 2021.
• It was also the first Monaco podium finish for the Enstone team since Robert Kubica finished third in the 2010 race when they were known as Renault.
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• Ocon is the first Frenchman to finish on the podium in Monaco since Olivier Panis won the 1996 race.
• Today was the 50th race for the Alpine name in F1.
• The top three finished in the order they started the race.
• Lewis Hamilton’s fourth place was his best result in Monaco this decade.
• Hamilton has only finished higher in one race this year (second in Australia).
• Mercedes teammate George Russell’s P5 gave him back-to-back top-five finishes for the first time this year.
• Russell has finished in the same position in Monaco for the past two consecutive years.
• Charles Leclerc’s P6 with Ferrari was only his second top-six result of the season (he was third in Azerbaijan).
• Pierre Gasly’s P7 was his best result since joining Alpine in early 2023.
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• Carlos Sainz finished in P8 for Ferrari and has now scored points from his eight starts at the Monaco Grand Prix.
• However, it was Sainz’s worst result in Monaco since 2018.
• With P9 for McLaren, Lando Norris scored points in Monaco for the third consecutive year.
• His teammate, Oscar Piastri, followed him home in P10 for his second career points finish.
• In AlphaTauri, Nyck de Vries took P12, his best result of the season, and moved from the bottom of the world championship table.