Norris endures lap one fear to get the Monaco Grand Prix, but Oh My God, no.

The Monaco Grand Prix has been run and won.

Lando Norris ruled the streets of Monte Carlo, while Australian Oscar Piastri finished third and maintained his lead in the F1 drivers’ championship.

There will be plenty of discussion about the racing, which was suspect at best, with so many drivers going deliberately slow.

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The podium drivers are in the cooldown room.

As soon as Lando Norris enters, Oscar Piastri points at him.

“Mate, I thought you were in the wall hard at turn one,” he says.

Norris had a massive lock-up of his tyres going into the first corner.

For a moment, it looked like Norris was going into the wall at Sainte-Devote.

“I saw smoke everywhere, I was like ‘oh my God, no’,” Piastri continues.

Norris was able to make the corner, keep the lead, and go on to win the race.

Lando Norris is a Monaco Grand Prix winner.

Understandably, you could not wipe the smile of the McLaren driver’s face.

“It feels amazing. It’s a long race, a long, gruelling race. We could push for the whole race, and we won in Monaco,” Norris says.

“An amazing weekend with pole, with today. This is what we dream of, this is what I did dream of as a kid.

“The worst bit was the end, I felt under control the whole race but Max was backing it up a little bit and I had to manage it, back off Max and push when I needed to.

“We are going to have a wonderful night.”

So often, the Monaco Grand Prix is won and lost on Saturday.

That his own Monaco native Charles Leclerc feels after this race.

“At the end of the day, we lost the race yesterday. We should have done a better job, Lando did a better job and he deserves the win,’ Leclerc says.

“It is above our expectations here, I thought we would struggle to be in the top 10, so it has been a good weekend. But I wish I’d won.

“Being born here, seeing all the Monegasque behind me is very special. It warms my heart to be at home and have so much support.”

Oscar Piastri started third and he finished third.

It is back-to-back podiums at Monaco after finishing second in 2024.

Piastri maintains the F1 drivers’ championship lead over Norris by three points.

“Obviously, the win would have been better, but it has been a tricky weekend,” Piastri says.

“Practice was messy all the way through, I got into qualifying with no a lot of confidence. I got close but not close enough, and you run around here where you started.

“A podium in Monaco – it’s not all bad.

“The margins are so fine, if this is a bad weekend, then it is not going too badly at all.”

It has been a long drought for McLaren at Monaco.

Lando Norris becomes the first driver since Lewis Hamilton in 2008 to win the Monaco Grand Prix.

Norris also set the fastest lap of the race, on the last lap.

Lando Norris has won a drama-filled Monaco Grand Prix, holding off Charles Leclerc in a tense finish and closing in on teammate Oscar Piastri in the drivers’ championship.

Australian Piastri placed third on the streets of Monte Carlo, enough to maintain the lead in the drivers’ championship by three points.

“MONACO BABY. YEEW!” Norris says.

Lando Norris leads Charles Leclerc, with Oscar Piastri ready to pounce on any mistake.

One lap to go.

Max Verstappen will pit eventually and finish fourth.

Lando Norris has the net lead, and he is being hounded by Charles Leclerc, who is getting close, but not close enough.

Oscar Piastri has now joined the fight. He is less than a second behind the rear wing of Leclerc.

Lando Norris has asked his team: Where is Oscar?

The Brit wants the Australian championship leader to put pressure on Charles Leclerc, as the Ferrari driver hounds Norris.

But Monaco is near impossible to overtake, and the McLaren driver is doing what he needs to hold on and win.

Lando Norris still holds the net lead of the race, but Charles Leclerc is not giving up the fight.

Norris must be laser-focused for the final 10 laps.

Max Verstappen is obliged to take one more pit stop.

However, he knows he will finish fourth so he may as well cause a little trouble while he can.

Verstappen stays out, and that has forced Norris to fall into the clutches of Norris.

Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri is catching up to the back of Leclerc.

The final 13 laps will be very interesting.

Max Verstappen leads the Monaco Grand Prix, however, he needs to pit one more time.

Except for a red flag, Verstappen is not going to win this race.

Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri are behind and they have made their stops.

What was a nice gap for Norris ahead of Leclerc has narrowed to less than one second.

Verstappen is going to finish fourth, so he really has no need to pit and make life easy for Norris.

Mercedes driver George Russell has been given a drive-through penalty for deliberately cutting a corner at the chicane.

Williams driver Alex Albon has been driving VERY slowly, as part of a team game.

Russell said he would rather take the five-second penalty for cutting the corner, rather than handing the place back.

He also accused Albon of dangerous driving.

But admitting you cut the corner deliberately is a no-no, and the stewards handed Russell a penalty where he must drive through the pit lane.

Charles Leclerc has come into the pits, not wanting to bother with that gaggle of cars which Norris contended through.

One lap later, Lando Norris comes in for his stop.

Max Verstappen is the leader of the race, but he still needs to pit.

Lando Norris has caught a group of eight cars, who are in a train.

The Williams cars are holding up the group, as they play a game to try and get both in the points.

Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri has come in for his second stop.

Oscar Piastri has had a hairy moment heading into Sainte-Devote, the first corner.

The Australian had a snap of oversteer, and his rear-left tyre clipped the wall.

Piastri said he had been “untidy” this weekend, and that was a great example of that.