Incredible Monaco

That was with out doubt one of the most exiting races iv seen, and it was in Monaco where your supposedly not meant to be able to overtake...
The sun was beating down on the most iconic race track in the world, the spectators were out in force and we were about to whitens one of the best Monte Carlo Grand Prix in quite a while. Last year there were just 3 overtakes in the twisting streets that we all love, all of them by Fernando on back markers. This year however, we got more than that on the first lap. The action kicked off when Schumacher's Mercedes went into anti-stall and fell down the order. This wasn't to get the man with 5 Monaco wins under his belt  down though. He fought through the pack on the first lap and caught a sleeping Lewis Hamilton, who started from ninth following a penalty for cutting the swimming pool chicane. The next few laps were action packed with an impatient Hamilton trying to get past the old boy. After ducking and diving trying to get past, eventually Hamilton got through. Further up the field Vettel was leading Jenson, Alonso and Webber,  they weren't putting up much of a fight though and Vettel had pulled out a two second lead by the end of the first lap. All the action was happening in the with a frustrated Hamilton as he tried to fight through the field. The next fase was the pit stops which for teams spending hundreds of millions of pounds a year were simply diabolical. It looked like Red Bull didn't know that Vettel or Webber were coming in. When Seb entered the pit the mechanic on the left front had trouble getting the tyre out the bag then Webber came in and the mechanics were still walking out the of the pit. All this played into the hands of Jenson Button who was the only front runner not to have problems in the pit. After the first stint he was leading and pulling time out of Vettel in second. As Monaco is normally a boring race it looked like Jenson had it all wrapped up, but it wasn't to be. McLaren thought that they saw a opportunity when Timo Glock had suspension failure, they brought Jenson in thinking that there would be a safety car. There wasn't. This gave Vettel the lead, once again. Further down the field Hamilton was fighting with with Massa, this resulted in Massa's car getting damaged on Lewis' first attempt which he was subsequently penalised for. On Hamilton's second attempt which was ultimately successful for him, he dived down the inside of the tunnel, Massa ran wide on to the marbles and crashed. This brought out the safety car and then the action started once again. Jenson had closed on Sebastian and Fernando was closing on Jenson. Button was all over the Back of Seb but there was no way though, so he pitted? Which gave Alonso the chance to close on Vettel, then it was clear that those two were going to finnish without making a further pit stop. Jenson was a pit stop behind and had a lot of ground to make up. On fresher tyres though, he did make up the gap and in the closing stages it looked like we were going to have a three way fight for the win, in Monaco! As the top three closed on a group of back markers it all kicked off. Sutil ran wide hitting the barriers and giving himself a punture whilst Hamilton was passing Petrov, as Lewis slowed to avoid Sutil; Alguersuari went in to the back of him destroying his rear wing. Alguersuari then crashed into the armco and was collected by Petrov. All this happened in font of the battle for first place. The pile up was big enough to bring out the red flags and the race was stopped with just 8 laps to go. Petrov was complaining about back pain but thankfully he is okay. The red flag gave the McLaren mechanics time to repair Lewis' rear wing. Once the race was restated it was clear that there would be no further action at the front  and we would not get the three way fight that was proving to be so exiting. On the restart Hamilton pulled another risky over take on Maldonado, Pastor turned in on the britt and ended up with his nose in the deadly Monaco armco. This was, in my opinion, a racing incident but it shows just how annoyed Lewis was with not just the race but the whole weekend, one to forget i think especially as up until Q3 Hamilton was favourite for pole and win. Just in front of that Webber had got past Kobayashi who drove a brilliant race to bring his Sauber home in 5th a career best for the overtaking phenomenal.
The race ended with Vettel in 1st, Alonso 2nd, Jenson 3rd, Webber 4th, Kobayashi 5th, Hamilton 6th and a disappointed Sutil in 7th, it looked like he was going to take a equal career best of 4th which he hasn't achieved since Monza 2009.
The action wasn't over after the race, in an interview with the BBC's Lee Mackenzie Lewis Hamilton had an outburst of emotion when he complained about being sent to the stewards after 5 of the 6 races so far this season he called it 'a joke' complaining that some of the drivers were 'absolutely frickin ridiculous'. when asked why he thought he was being targeted Hamilton jokingly said 'maybe its because im black...' which im sure he'll regret in the morning
Overall a VERY exiting and confusing Monaco Grand Prix which is a credit to F1's new rules. Next time out were in Canada, a track that Lewis Hamilton thrives on and I'm sure we'll see him fully charged up eager for the win. It looks like Vettel is running away with the championship but it will be interesting to see what happens behind him. See you in Montreal, its going to be good. Expect high tyre ware and a few cars in the wall of champions...