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Rosberg wins Monaco GP after crash hampers Hamilton

Rare feat: Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany waves to supporters after winning the Formula One Grand Prix, at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco on Sunday

Jerome Pugmire (The Jakarta Post)
Monaco
Sun, May 24, 2015

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Rosberg wins Monaco GP after crash hampers Hamilton Rare feat: Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany waves to supporters after winning the Formula One Grand Prix, at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco on Sunday. (AP/Claude Paris) (AP/Claude Paris)

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span class="inline inline-center">Rare feat: Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany waves to supporters after winning the Formula One Grand Prix, at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco on Sunday. (AP/Claude Paris)

Nico Rosberg won the Monaco Grand Prix for the third straight year after a late crash involving teenager Max Verstappen undid Lewis Hamilton's bid for a fourth win of the season.

Hamilton looked set to take his 37th career win after leading from the start, until the 17-year-old Verstappen rammed his Toro Rosso into the back of Romain Grosjean as he tried to overtake the Lotus driver.

That meant a safety car had to come out at the start of the 64th lap, and when Hamilton was then called in for a pit stop, he suddenly found himself behind both Rosberg and Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.

When the safety car finally went off track, Hamilton had only a few laps to try and get past Vettel and Rosberg on the most difficult track to overtake on F1.

It was Rosberg's second win of the season following his victory two weeks ago at the Spanish GP, and he became the first driver since Ayrton Senna to win the Monaco race three straight times. The others to do it were Frenchman Alain Prost and Briton Graham Hill.

He is now right back in championship contention, but the circumstances of his win will likely infuriate Hamilton, who was leading Rosberg by 15 seconds when Verstappen '€” who had never driven on Monaco's sinewy street circuit before '€” tried to pass Grosjean but found no room and went spinning off. He was unharmed.

The team's decision to call Hamilton in for a pit stop clearly backfired, and the Briton angrily snapped over the radio: "Please stop talking to me, please."

Rosberg was 4.4 seconds ahead of four-time F1 champion Vettel, and 6 clear of Hamilton.

As Rosberg and Vettel celebrated warmly with each other, Hamilton took a long while to get out of his car, taking his helmet off slowly and walking to join the other two on the podium with his head down. (*****)

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