Circuit de Monaco, Sunday 28 May

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella after the Monaco Grand Prix.

As it happened

• Starting on the Medium tyres, Lando and Oscar maintain their grid positions after lights out
• The halfway point is reached and the drivers are still in P10 and P11
• Lando boxes and swaps to the Hard tyre
• The rain starts to fall. The drivers double stack in the pit-lane, both switching to Intermediate tyres 
• Oscar comes out in P10, with Lando P11. The cars swap positions
• Lando passes Tsuonda on lap 68, and Oscar follows suit the next lap
• The chequered flag waves, Lando scores 2 points in P9, and Oscar scores 1 point in P10

Started	10th
Finished	9th
Fastest lap	1m17.844s on lap 46 (+2.194s, 19th)
Pit-stops	2, lap 50 [New Medium>New Hard] (2.79s), lap 54 [Hard>New Inter] (6.37s)

“That was a pretty good race! Perhaps not perfect, we stopped just before the rain which lost us about 20s of race time having to pit again for the Inters because the rain was stronger than expected, but unfortunately the stint wasn’t long enough to make the most of the good pace we then had. It was very tough out there today, tricky in these conditions. Our pace was good, one of the best on track. We’ll see what we can learn, try to keep improving and do a better job if we can in Barcelona next weekend.” 

Started	11th
Finished	10th
Fastest lap	1m17.513s on lap 47 (+1.863s, 14th)
Pit-stops	1, lap 54 [New Hard>New Inter] (2.74s)

“I’m pretty happy with P10 and a point today. There’s not a great deal you can do in Monaco on Sunday but I think we made a good strategy call to start on the Hard tyre. When the rain began to fall, the communications were very good as we decided if and when to go onto the Intermediate tyre. Of course, we’ll have a look to see if there was anything we could have done better today, but it feels like we did a good job, and I’m very happy that both of us finished the race in the points.” 

“Two cars in the points at the end of a dramatic Monaco Grand Prix is a very positive outcome. We executed the race well; our drivers ran smart races, staying out of trouble in difficult conditions, and our pace looked very strong in the final third of the race on the Intermediate tyres. It was a shame that portion of the race wasn’t a little longer to allow us to capitalise on the pace both Lando and Oscar demonstrated. 

“I would like to praise, in particular, the work of our garage crew this weekend. Yesterday, the mechanics did phenomenal work to get Lando out in Q3, and today they executed clean pit-stops, including a difficult double shuffle in awkward conditions. There’s a depth of talent there, of which we are immensely proud and will keep building for the future.”