Monaco: Points out of reach for Daniel in Monte Carlo

A wet start and a dry finish in Monaco didn't produce the result Daniel wanted in a chaotic race that hit the two-hour time limit.

Race data
Monaco (round 7 of 23), 29 May 2022
Circuit de Monaco, 78 laps, 3.337km
Qualified: 14th
Finished: 13th
Laps per position: 7 laps (12th), 47 laps (13th), 8 laps (14th), 1 lap (15th), 1 lap (16th)
Pit stops/tyres: Lap 19 (wet/hard), lap 30 (hard/hard)
Fastest lap: 1:17.532 (11th, lap 59)
Points this event: 0
Points this season: 11 (11th in world championship)

Daniel's download
"The result wasn't down to Friday and the crash I had in FP2, it was really about qualifying. If you don't get Saturdays right here, you pray for a miracle on Sunday, that something turns around. That, and not having pace … the race was only going to get turned around with a bunch of luck, so that was a tough one. I actually felt we were in a decent place after FP1, but that's obviously so early in the weekend that you can't get too excited.

"In my head I always wanted to go from extreme (wet tyres) to slick (tyres) on Sunday, I knew the inter (intermediate tyre) would be quicker for a few laps but I felt maybe doing one less pit stop would have been good. I felt like putting the slick on when I did … it was always going to be sketchy and you always wonder if you could have gone one or two laps before. I felt like I took enough risk to try to make something happen.

"Later in the race, after the red flag … as we know it's so hard to overtake here. Initially I felt quicker than (Pierre) Gasly but we were all just in traffic, and unless you full kamikaze it somewhere there's not really a move that's on, a move in dry conditions at least. He got me earlier when he was on inters and I was on the extreme.

"We're off to Baku next and while it's like Monaco in terms of the risks, it's quite a different track. I don't really know what to expect in terms of whether it suits us or not, and I'll prepare by being in the simulator next week. It's a place where I have good memories, so I'll switch the focus to Azerbaijan and try to come out a little better than here."

How Daniel's race unfolded
* Qualified 14th, advanced to 13th past Tsunoda/AlphaTauri on lap 6.
* Passed by Gasly/AlphaTauri for 12th on lap 13.
* Pitted for dry tyres on lap 19, dropped to 16th.
* Advanced to 13th by lap 24.
* Race red-flagged on lap 24 after Schumacher/Haas crash.
* Pitted for hard tyres under red flag, maintained 13th.
* Finished in 13th place after 64 of scheduled 78 laps (race reached two-hour time limit).

Next race
Round 8: Azerbaijan (Baku City Circuit), 12 June
Last race (2021): qualified 13th, finished 9th
Career: 5 races, 33 points, 1 win, 3 points finishes, 2 DNFs
Best finish: 1st (2017)
Azerbaijan highlights: Won from 10th on the grid in 2017 for Red Bull Racing, his fifth F1 victory. Qualified 2nd on first visit to circuit in 2016.