MONTE CARLO, Monaco -- Lewis Hamilton clung on for a memorable victory at the Monaco Grand Prix, but he spent most of the race questioning his team's strategy and thinking he was about to lose the lead.
An early Safety Car period forced the lead drivers into a premature first stop. Hamilton and his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas took on the medium tyre, while Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel took on the more durable medium tyre. Bottas was soon forced to switch to the hard tyre after colliding with Verstappen in the pit-lane, which relegated him to fourth and left the Red Bull driver as the man behind Hamilton.