If you qualify poorly in Monaco, you will finish in a lowly position unless there is some kind of safety car or weather-related chaos. This is the generally accepted way of things around the streets of the Principality.
But, while Williams junior driver Zak O’Sullivan was the beneficiary of a virtual safety car intervention on his unlikely journey from 15th on the grid to the top step of the Formula 2 podium, labelling it as ‘the luckiest win in the history of luck’ - as it has been daubed on social media - is perhaps unfair.
