2015 Monaco Grand Prix

2015 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 6 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One World Championship
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Circuit de Monaco
Circuit de Monaco
Race details
Date 24 May 2015
Official name Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2015[1]
Location Circuit de Monaco
La Condamine and Monte Carlo, Monaco
Course Street circuit
Course length 3.337 km (2.074 miles)
Distance 78 laps, 260.286 km (161.734 miles)
Weather Partly cloudy
18–19 °C (64–66 °F) air temperature
31–37 °C (88–99 °F) track temperature
1.5 m/s (4.9 ft/s) wind from the west[2]
Attendance 200,000 (Weekend)
Pole position
Driver Mercedes
Time 1:15.098
Fastest lap
Driver Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-Renault
Time 1:18.063 on lap 74
Podium
First Mercedes
Second Ferrari
Third Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2015 Monaco Grand Prix, formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2015, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 24 May 2015 at the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit that runs through the principality of Monaco. It was the sixty-second running of the race as a World Championship event, and seventy-third running overall.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the race with a twenty-point lead over teammate and defending race winner Nico Rosberg in the Drivers' Championship, with Mercedes having a seventy-point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship.[3]

World Champion Lewis Hamilton secured his first ever Monaco pole position during Saturday's qualifying. In the race, Nico Rosberg took his third consecutive win at Monaco, second win of the season, and the tenth of his career, while Sebastian Vettel finished second. Championship leader Hamilton, who had led for most of the race, moved from first into third place following a "pit stop misjudgement" during a late safety car period, for which his team, Mercedes, later apologised.[4] The renewed McLaren-Honda partnership scored its first points since Honda's return to the sport. With Rosberg's victory, he was able to reduce his deficit in the World Drivers' Championship to ten points.

  1. ^ "Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2015". Formula One. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  2. ^ "GP Monaco in Monte Carlo / Rennen" [Monaco GP in Monte Carlo / Race]. motorsport-total.com (in German). Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Race preview". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  4. ^ Weaver, Paul (24 May 2015). "Nico Rosberg grabs Monaco F1 GP win after Mercedes pit Lewis Hamilton". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

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