Formula One: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen wins Monaco Grand Prix and takes championship lead
- After five races only four points separate Verstappen from Mercedes’ seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton
- Verstappen and Hamilton had gone wheel-to-wheel in the previous four races but there was no chance in Monaco, with Verstappen alone on the front row
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen hit back at Mercedes on Sunday after winning the Monaco Grand Prix to take the Formula One championship lead.
“Well, first of all, actions always speak louder than words,” the Dutch 23-year-old said when asked how important it had been to beat Mercedes at the most glamorous circuit on the calendar.
“I think that’s a good lesson after this weekend. You have to talk on the track, that’s what I like.”
After five races only four points separate Verstappen from Mercedes’ seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton in what is shaping up to be one of the closest-fought title battles for years.
There has been needle between both teams’ management while Hamilton was suspected by some of mind games after suggesting in the build-up that Verstappen maybe had “something to prove”.