2015 MONACO GP: ROSBERG LUCKY, HAMILTON BOILING

Nico Rosberg took his third consecutive Monaco Grand Prix victory as a certain victory for Lewis Hamilton was a wrecked by a late race strategic blunder that saw Mercedes pit the champion under a late-race safety car that dropped him to third place behind Sebastian Vettel.

Hamilton had led the race without threat for 64 laps but then Max Verstappen collided with Romain Grosjean and the safety car was deployed. Mercedes bizarrely chose to pit Hamilton for new supersofts but when he emerged he found himself behind Rosberg and Vettel, who had opted to stay out.

When the safety car left the track with seven laps to go, Vettel defended hard and despite having new quicker tyres Hamilton could find no way past. Rosberg carved out a healthy lead and marched to his third consecutive Monaco win.

Pos	Driver	Car	Laps	Gap
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG	78	1h49:18.420
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	78	+  4.486
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG	78	+  6.053
4	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull	78	+ 11.965
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	78	+ 13.608
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	78	+ 14.345
7	Sergio Perez	Force India	78	+ 15.013
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	78	+ 16.063
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber	78	+ 23.626
10	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	78	+ 25.056
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	78	+ 26.232
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	78	+ 28.415
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	78	+ 31.159
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	78	+ 45.789
15	Felipe Massa	Williams	77	+   1 Lap
16	Roberto Merhi	Manor	76	+  2 Laps
17	Will Stevens	Manor	76	+  2 Laps
DNF	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso	62	Collision
DNF	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	41	Overheating
DNF	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus	5	Brakes