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Nico Rosberg won the Monaco Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday to take the overall championship lead from his teammate Lewis Hamilton, who came second to give Mercedes a fifth straight 1-2 finish.

The German driver clinched his second victory of the season and fifth of his career, making a strong start and holding off Hamilton to repeat his maiden GP win from pole here in Monaco last year.

“The pressure was on all the way but I kept it cool and was able to win,” said Rosberg, who celebrated by hugging his team engineers.

Rosberg finished 9.2 seconds ahead of Hamilton, who was just 0.4 faster than Daniel Ricciardo. The Red Bull driver was unable to get past Hamilton on a track that is the most difficult to overtake on in Formula One.

Four-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel’s frustrating season with Red Bull continued as he abandoned early with a power unit failure.

Mercedes has also taken every pole position so far this season: four for Hamilton and two for Rosberg, who won the season’s opening race in Australia.

“I felt I was very strong today,” said Hamilton, who complained that his visibility was impaired by some dirt in his left eye.

But Hamilton snapped back at his team when told that Ricciardo was closing the gap on him.

“I don’t care about Ricciardo, what’s the gap to Nico?” said Hamilton, who earlier complained about the timing of a pit stop to underline what has been a tense weekend within Mercedes.

Hamilton was made to care about Ricciardo by the end and spent the final four laps blocking the Australian. It was a second straight third-place finish for the impressive Ricciardo, who is now ahead of Vettel, his more illustrious teammate.

“It is thrilling to be on the podium here in Monaco,” Ricciardo said.

Hamilton did pressure Rosberg at times, even trimming his lead back to 0.8 seconds and would certainly have attacked more on another track. But Monaco’s 78-lap circuit — which has the slowest average speed on the F1 calendar –meant Rosberg’s position was relatively safe throughout, unless Hamilton tried a risky move that could have made him crash.

Overtaking is so tough that 10 of the past 11 winners have done so from pole, the exception being Hamilton in 2008, the year he won the title.

Qualifying first for the race came amid controversial circumstances for Rosberg, who was cleared by stewards of any wrongdoing after making a late error that led to a yellow flag and curtailed Hamilton’s chances of beating his time with less than one minute remaining in Saturday’s session.

It was an incident that fueled the growing rivalry between the two runaway leaders in the overall standings, with Hamilton insinuating afterward that he would get revenge and evoking memories of the bitter rivalry between the late Ayrton Senna of Brazil and Frenchman Alain Prost when they raced for McLaren in the late 1980s.

Hamilton, who three days ago had taken the astonishing step of questioning his own teammate’s hunger with somewhat disparaging comments, even intimated that he would “take a page out of his book” when referring to how Senna dealt with his conflict with Prost.

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[DooMAD]

Wasn't the most exciting Monaco race I've ever seen.  I may have even fallen asleep briefly through one of the safety cars.  I still don't get why people think Rosberg's pole was controversial or why the FIA felt they needed to investigate.  All he did was lock a wheel and go off.  The media completely overreacted and made out like it was some sort of scandal.  Must have been a slow news day or something.

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Bitcoiners can't like F1?

[XDaxX]

Formula 1 is only thing on TV that I never skip to watch. Can`t wait for Austria to come.

[azguard]

Formula 1 is only thing on TV that I never skip to watch. Can`t wait for Austria to come.

After several years its back on F1 calender. Love this track hope to bee on Hungary race track with my kid this year.

We are trying to go there from last year but always something come up.

[XDaxX]

I was unfortunately never watching race live but that is definitely one of things I want to do in future... Visiting Monza would be dreams come true for me

[XDaxX]

Again Mercedes wins, they are still unbeatable if they have no engine problems in race... hoping that someone can close the gap with them and make rest of the season more interesting in fighting for first two positions...

[DooMAD]

Not a bad race, nice to see Williams on form, grabbing Third and Fourth places.  Rosberg increases his championship lead by a further 7 points, so it'll be interesting to see how Hamilton responds on home turf at Silverstone in two weeks.

[azguard]

Not a bad race, nice to see Williams on form, grabbing Third and Fourth places.  Rosberg increases his championship lead by a further 7 points, so it'll be interesting to see how Hamilton responds on home turf at Silverstone in two weeks.

Yea it was good to see other besides Mercedes in battle for first but they done shity job in box.

Every time some1 else is on first the mechanic screw up, last year was Ferrari.

[XDaxX]

Rosberg now has big advantage ahead of Hamilton it is still long way until the end of season but I hope that double points in last race won`t decide champion because it is so stupid rule

[azguard]

Rosberg now has big advantage ahead of Hamilton it is still long way until the end of season but I hope that double points in last race won`t decide champion because it is so stupid rule

Off course it will Hamilton need to win this year you will see mark my words. I personally would like to see some new name ass new champ but that is only my opinion.

[Slark]

Before the start of the season I thought that Hamilton will win with Rosberg. But as the season goes Hamilton is getting more and more frustrating and irritating. Rosberg on the other hand is keeping cool and probably thats why he's leading the championships.

[XDaxX]

yea, I think that Hamilton with his interviews is losing more and more fans and he could finish like Vettel who is whisled on podium almost always

[sifter]

Before the start of the season I thought that Hamilton will win with Rosberg. But as the season goes Hamilton is getting more and more frustrating and irritating. Rosberg on the other hand is keeping cool and probably thats why he's leading the championships.

Well said.. Hamilton will definitely win Rosberg. But he needs to relax ey?

[Azgalush]

I like Rosberg more than Hamilton, Hamilton annoys me. Rosberg on the other hand is a nice and calm guy, that is what I like the best about him.

[Slark]

I like Rosberg more than Hamilton, Hamilton annoys me. Rosberg on the other hand is a nice and calm guy, that is what I like the best about him.

Personally I'm rooting for Kimi His character is the coolest one in the paddock but unfortunately he is not doing so good in Ferrari :/
I would like to see Valtteri to win a race this year and also Kobayashi to go to a better team, so he can race at least somewhere in the middle of the pack.