Lucky Lewis Hamilton

Grand Prix de Monte Carlo yesterday was a lucky one for McLaren-Mercedes driver, Lewis Hamilton. Before the start of the GP we all knew it would be an eventful race because of rain prior to the start of race, and given the tight and twist, and zero-margin of error track, plus the removal of traction control for all race cars. So the race kick starts with Lewis on the inside line of Kimi Raikonnen.

After successfully pipped Kimi to 2nd place, he was at one stage follow closely to Filipe Massa's tail, but due to spray generated from Filipe's scarlet machine, he opted to stayed back a little and waiting for opportunity. Then maybe due to lack of concentration he clipped the sidewall, and that's enough to punctured his rear right tyre, and he's forced to pit for new tyres.

At this very moment, the over-aggresived Fernando Alonso caused an unneccessary accident at the Lower Casino hair-pin, which resulted in car jammed and safety car being deployed. This act has help in Lewis's course. He opt for a much longer stop, refuelled, and out of pit.

Because of the slow safety car speed, Lewis manage to rejoin in 6th place having stopped once, and the others still running, so he gained a significant advantages over all his rivals. Then came Filipe Massa's mistake of running wide into turn 1. This put Robert Kubica into the lead and cut down the difference between leader and Lewis. All this after the safety car pitting from the race track.

From then on, it's all down to Lewis's own ability to keep cool head and win the race, which he eventually did. All credit to Lewis's cool head at that moment for not trying too hard too soon to make up ground on Robert Kubica and Filipe Massa. From then on it's only one clear winner unless mistake from the driver itself.

As for Kimi, the race is lost before it's even started. The crew member's trying to the extreme for tyre choices prior to race start, which just mistimed and causing Kimi his 3rd place then. Due to the Drive-Thru penalty imposed, Kimi was eventually down to 6th, where he has to fight really hard to try to regain the ground on the front runners. So this effectively put his race at an end, and in trying to make up ground, mistakes bound to be committed, and that's evidence when he trying to hard and losing control of his race car, which also ended Force India's Adrian Sutil's race.

So conclusion is Lewis Hamilton won the race not only down to his own ability, but lady luck was on his side as well, because he chosed the right time to clipped the side wall, which is just couple of corners before pitlane entry, and before tyres fitted, safety car deployed, which slow down the entire field. At the end, every drivers on the race track except Lewis Hamilton suffered.