Max Verstappen wins 2023 Monaco Grand Prix

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the Monaco Grand Prix 2023, for the Formula 1 World Championship,with a time record of 1:48. This victory is his fourth in all his career. He also led the 2000th lap of his career - the seventh driver in F1 history to do that - and extended his championship lead to 39 points. 

A record time for Max Verstappen on the Monaco Circuit

Max Verstappen was ahead of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, on every lap, but had to face the rain also.  A great moment was in his advantage when Alonso stopped for slicks just before the rain started. He continued to pursue his road gaining points on his timeline. 

Post-race, Verstappen said to F1: "It was quite a difficult one because we were on the medium initially and Fernando was on the hard tyre. We didn't want to go that long, but we had too. The rain was coming, and we didn't know really what was going on (...) The tyres were graining and then took a few laps to get through that graining phase and the pace picked up a little bit, but it was still very tricky to drive. Then it started to rain lap by lap, and then we had to make the call to go on to the inters.
"It was incredibly slippery. When you are that far in the lead you don't want to push too hard, but you don't want to lose too much time, so it's quite difficult in that scenario. I clipped the walls a few times, it was super difficult out there, but that's Monaco!" 

Verstappen's victory brings 129 points  to Red Bull clear of their nearest rivals.

"It's also super nice to win in the way we did"

"It's super nice to win," the Dutchman added. "It's also super nice to win in the way we did today, with the weather and everything, to stay calm and to bring it home. Again, a lot of points for the team as well, so it's great." he continued for F1.