Ferrari's Charles Leclerc Finally Gets Some Good Luck, Wins Monaco Grand Prix

I didn't think we'd see another win as popular as Lando Norris' win at Miami for McLaren, but Charles Leclerc's victory in the Monaco Grand Prix — his home race — just might do it.

Leclerc is a proven Grand Prix winner, but for years he got clobbered by bad luck in his home race. A DNS in 2021 thanks to a crash in qualifying (despite qualifying on pole) and then falling victim to a strategy gaffe the following year while leading the race made you wonder who he pissed off to not be able to get the job done in Monaco despite being one of the best drivers when it comes to managing one of the trickiest circuits in the sport.

Let's be real about this: the race was not an exciting one. The early insanity that brought out a red flag led to an early tire change. This meant that most of the front runners were going to try to take those new tires to the end of the Grand Prix.

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Sure, that's not easy to do, but track position is so valuable at Monaco. Overtaking is not easy there. I mean, the most exciting overtake of the day came from Sauber's Valtteri Bottas who snuck around Williams' Logan Sargeant for P14.

But that boring race was just the ticket for Leclerc. All he had to do was lock in and get that Ferrari of his to the finish. No strategy calls for the team to goof up, no safety car drama to deal with. Just drive, and drive he did.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc celebrates after winning his home race, the Monaco Grand Prix. (Photo by Peter Fox - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images)

He had some pressure from McLaren's Oscar PIastri early but in the last 10 to 15 laps of the race, Leclerc really dropped him building a gap that was nearly nine seconds at times.

Leclerc came across the line in P1 to become the first Monegasque to win the Monaco Grand Prix. He was followed by Piastri, and then his teammate Carlos Sainz in in P3.

That's a huge result for Leclerc, Ferrari, and McLaren, and made even bigger by the fact that Red Bull had a down weekend (something Max Verstappen was bracing for) with Verstappen finishing in P6 and Sergio Perez being knocked out of the race before he even got a chance to drive through Casino Square.

After early dominance, two of the last three races have been won by non-Red Bull drivers, so things are starting to heat up.

Leclerc is currently second in the Drivers Standings while Ferrari is second in the Constructors Standings, just 24 points behind Red Bull

After a weekend off, Formula 1 will be back in action at Montreal's Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve (a great circuit) for the Canadian Grand Prix on June 9.