As always the beautiful ocean view of Monaco, with the backdrop of superyachts, provided the best Saturday Quali of the year with Lando providing a stunning lap to steal pole from Monaco born Charles who had topped all practice sessions ! Lando also shattered the all time lap record for Monaco ! Sunday unfortunately with its new mandatory 2 stop rule was a procession with teams playing teammate games to hold teams behind them up ! This rule really needs a tweak for next year ! Mclaren and Lando scored a strong win but Mercedes conversly had a very tough weekend suffering a two car loss on the all imoprotant Satuday. Kimi crashed, and Russell suffered a power loss issue making them start Sunday from 14th & 15th. The strategy they employed didn't have any risk or gamble on Sunday but was further hampered by Williams dirty tactics that other teams were also doing.