2024 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix Highlights

Max Verstappen earned a sixth position at the 2024 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix following the early crash that saw Oracle Red Bull Racing teammate Sergio Pérez escape from his car unharmed.

The result leaves Verstappen 31 points ahead of winner Charles Leclerc in the 2024 drivers’ title race, and Oracle Red Bull Racing now just holds a 24-point lead over Ferrari in the constructors’ race.

Max Verstappen, Driver, Red Bull Racing

Of course, the most important thing is that Checo was okay following his crash. There was a lot of damage to his car, which was very unfortunate, but luckily he was fine. The red flag ultimately meant that our strategy was ruined, so everyone was just managing tyres until the end of the race, and the pit stop did not change much either. We had to really slow down a lot to make it to the end of the race, and I tried to pass George for two laps, but it was extremely difficult. The ride of the car was still not great today, and we just didn’t have the pace in qualifying. It ended up being a very boring race for us, and not much we could do. It’s been a bad weekend for us, but the positive is that we know what the weakness is in the car, and if we can improve this, we should get back a lot of lap time. A season like last year doesn’t happen often, and we are realistic; we stay very strong as a team, don’t overreact, analyse the race and go from there.

Sergio Pérez, Driver, Red Bull Racing:

At the start, I lost a position to one of the Haas cars, and I was coming out of turn one; I couldn’t see Kevin in my mirrors; you can see that from my onboard, and then the crash happened. I think the move was unnecessary; we sustained a lot of damage, and it was a very dangerous incident. I was disappointed it didn’t get investigated; it was an immense crash, and my car was completely destroyed. I think it was totally unnecessary at that point of the race, and where we were starting on the grid, we should have been starting in a better grid position today to avoid this. My team and I are sorry for it, but there was no need for that. It caused a lot of damage to my car, and I am okay after the accident; I just got a small graze on my elbow. Safety in F1 has come a very long way, and for that, I am grateful. It has been a bad weekend for all of us, and the whole thing is frustrating, but I trust my Team with my car ahead of Canada, and I hope we come back very strong.

CHRISTIAN HORNER, CEO and Team Principal

I would say it was a difficult weekend and Monaco is always dictated by qualifying performance, so we faced many challenges going into today. A big congratulations to Charles on his home win, but for us, our car never performed at its best here, and we need to understand the issues we had with the bumps and kerbs. Very disappointed by the crash on lap one, and I think Magnussen should have given more space. Not only did he damage his car, he also took out our car, but thankfully Checo stepped away from it unhurt, which is the most important thing. We have a lot of data to analyse from this weekend, and we’ll be looking at everything hard over the next couple of weeks before Canada.

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