A debut win at Monaco is a special moment for any driver and Lando Norris duly drunk in the atmosphere as he revelled in his victory having finally conquered the challenging test on the streets of Monte Carlo. For the McLaren driver it has reignited his championship charge but as for the race itself, which had hoped for something of a reboot of its own with mandatory pit stops imposed, the brave new world had an awfully familiar sense of deja vu.
Norris’s win was without doubt a nerveless display of precision execution by driver and team worthy of note and of victory, as he held off Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in second, with his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri in third. Max Verstappen was fourth for Red Bull and Lewis Hamilton in fifth from seventh on the grid for Ferrari.
