THE BIG PICTURE: We admit, we’ve been reluctant anointing Antonelli like everyone else has. But goodness, he completely outdrove his teammate all weekend, did not make a single mistake the whole weekend in just his second time on the toughest street circuit on the F1 calendar, and crushed the competition (even considering Verstappen’s DNF) in arguably a car that could have been beaten this weekend.

EVENT: The rich and famous had their day. Now, go home.

TRACK: Odd the track started breaking up. That's something you tend to see with ground effect cars, which these no longer are, or on extremely hot days which this wasn't.

QUALIFYING: Just when you thought Antonelli could not impress you more, Verstappen pulls out another Max lap, the Ferraris are looking good, Russell appears totally lost, Hadjar is strong, McLaren are not competitive, and Gasly gets some magic back.

RACE: The new rules did not make a difference. It was still a typical Monaco style race with the only "excitement" the restart and whether Antonelli can hold it together the whole race.

START: A crushing blow for Verstappen who smartly moves over as best he could, while everyone else slots into place on an otherwise very clean start, with Gasly making the only significant gain getting by Norris.

RESTART: Antonelli's reflexes are perfect to hold off the Ferrari, Hadjar losses out, and Hulkenberg does Hulkenberg things knocking Sainz out.

ANTONELLI: The youngest Monaco winner. The youngest to win five races in a row. The youngest points leader. What other youngest records will Kimi have by the end of the season?

RUSSELL: Bad luck, which granted George has, only goes so far to explain his crushingly disappointing season so far. He's just flat out getting his butt kicked lately by an upstart second year driver.

HAMILTON: Keeps getting happier and happier.

LECLERC: Leo needs to have a talk with his owner.

FERRARI: Their start advantage is a thing of the past.

HADJAR: Good for Isack getting a podium, even if he inherited it.

VERSTAPPEN: His car didn't just let Max down, it let all us fans down hoping to see if he could give Antonelli a run for his money.

PIASTRI: Leads Norris in the points for the first time since his huge lead last year disappeared.

MCLAREN: They were celebrating their 1,000 GP. But that may not be true. Counting grands prix (entry? qualified? start?) has always been more of an art than a statistical science.

LINDBLAD: His entire strategy rested on a red flag. And Arvid got it!

GASLY: A well deserved podium ... oh, wait ... stolen, literally, by the FIA.

WILLIAMS: Okay, should have been a double points finish, but ultimately not impressive.

ALONSO: Actually got a point. But the car still sucks.

CADILLAC: On the other hand, if they had gotten the point, that would have been impressive.

PEREZ: Speaking of that lost point, how in the world could Sergio, a long time veteran, be so dumb as to line up in the wrong starting spot? And then to double down on the idiocy, he does it again on the restart!

FIA: When teams such as Alpine set their pit limiter speed below the maximum allowed but still get caught for speeding, your measurement is the problem. You destroyed races and perhaps championships, in Russell's case.

ADUO: Yes, it's based on data. But perception is everything. And when the data points to the Red Bull engine being better than Mercedes, giving Mercedes extra development time and money to improve the best perceived power unit on the grid, that's a terrible look for the FIA and the teams who voted for this system.

F2: Thanks to the luck of qualifying eighth and thus getting the huge Monaco advantage of pole for the reverse grid sprint race, Italian Gabriele Minì won it. Bulgarian Nikola Tsolov started second in the feature race, but after the mandatory pit stop passed the pole sitter who locked up, for the win.

F3: The original sprint car winner, Japanese Hiyu Yamakoshi, was disqualified for incorrect parts, handing the win to Chinese Gerrard Xie. Italian Brandon Badoer parlayed the pole for the feature race into victory.

WORD OF THE WEEKEND: Penalties.

STAT OF THE WEEKEND: Whatever the distance the FIA measured in the pit lane thinking it was accurate enough to properly assess speed limit infractions. Because, clearly it was not.

HISTORICAL STAT OF THE WEEKEND: Much has been made this weekend about Brembo brakes, because of Leclerc's comments, being a Ferrari supplier for 50 years. Brembo’s first F1 win was at the 1975 Monaco GP with Niki Lauda in the Ferrari 312T in dominating fashion from pole. The win broke a 20-year drought at Monaco for Ferrari. Back then, the car used cast-iron discs rather than today's advanced carbon ones, and peak deceleration didn't even reach 2g, which is less than half of what modern drivers experience.

TWEET OF THE WEEKEND: From @FormulaDirecta:

Max Verstappen and Hamilton give advice to Antonelli for tomorrow:

VER: "When the lights go out, wait one second".

HAM: "When the lights go out, wait TWO seconds".

#F1 #MonacoGP

QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND: A totally dejected George Russell, "The championship dream is practically over. I've already put it behind me."

QUOTE OF THE WEEKEND RUNNERUP: An extremely upset Pierre Gasly, "I'm not killing myself working for 10 years just to have a podium stolen from me later."

SCHEDULE: Our first back-to-back in a long time. And it's no longer the Spanish GP, but rather the Barcelona-Catalunya GP.

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