Daniel Ricciardo hangs in for tense victory at Monaco Grand Prix
Monaco — Daniel Ricciardo brought back memories of Formula One great Michael Schumacher in his prime on Sunday as the Australian nursed a wounded Red Bull to Monaco Grand Prix victory in the team’s 250th race. Winning from pole position for the first time in his career, Ricciardo drove for nearly two thirds of the race with a car down on power due to problems that emerged on lap 28. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, 2017’s race winner, finished second to cut Lewis Hamilton’s overall lead to 14 points after six of 21 rounds. Hamilton, the reigning world champion, was third for Mercedes. "You have done an amazing job today," team boss Christian Horner said after Ricciardo took the chequered flag 7.3sec clear of Vettel. "That is right up there with what Schumacher did… and this is payback for 2016." Ricciardo’s only previous pole had been in Monaco two years ago, when he lost out to Hamilton on strategy and finished runner-up. This time Ricciardo also made a clean start and, controlling the ...
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