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Stoffel Vandoorne: My race was sacrificed to help Fernando Alonso's

Stoffel Vandoorne feels his chances of securing points in the Monaco Grand Prix were ruined by McLaren's decision to keep him out in a bid to help teammate Fernando Alonso.

Vandoorne started the race just outside the top ten and had been running behind Renault's Nico Hulkenberg -- who went onto finish eighth. The Belgian was running ahead of the two Saubers, Brendon Hartley and Kevin Magnussen -- with the quartet stopping between laps 13 and 17.

His stop came one lap later than Alonso -- who rejoined just ahead of Vandoorne and a recovering Max Verstappen, who had been held up.