Force India to review procedures after Hulkenberg's Monaco GP woe

Although Sergio Perez claimed third place behind race-winner Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo, Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley feels it could also have got Nico Hulkenberg onto the podium.

Hulkenberg was left lamenting the timing of his first pitstop, slating it as "wrong", and adding: "It cost me track position and put me straight into traffic."

The German had been running right behind the Mercedes of Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in fourth on lap 15 when he pitted to change from wets to intermediates and then became part of a queue of cars trapped behind Felipe Massa's Williams as it stayed out longer on wets.

"It effectively ruined my race as I spent the rest of the afternoon stuck there," said Hulkenberg.

"It's very frustrating as I had the pace to be on the podium."

While happy in one aspect for Perez, with third place Force India's best result around the streets of Monte Carlo, Fernley told Autosport: "The frustrating thing is we could have done even better.

"We didn't play a very good strategy for Nico on the first stop, and I feel had we done that then I think people would have been very surprised as to where we would have been.

"I think Nico could certainly have finished where Checo did, and I think we possibly could have been third and fourth, maybe even second and third."

Assessing the "one mistake in what would otherwise have been a flawless race", Fernley said: "It's an internal thing, but at the end of the day we need to look at ourselves and our procedures.

"It's nothing to do with the calls of going from when we went from wets to inters, it's when we went to those, and who went first.

"We have to address it, to look at it ourselves and make sure we deliver because we lost an opportunity.

"When these opportunities come you have to make sure you deliver because for a team like Force India they are not going to come along every weekend.

"We've got to make sure that when they do we are ready for it and we're acting in a proper manner.

"Overall I'm very thrilled at what we achieved, but equally as frustrated we could have done better, so we will look at it ourselves and take it from there."

Hulkenberg ultimately clinched sixth place on the line from Rosberg amid the final-lap drizzle.

"That was a thrill," added Fernley.

"Nico was astute enough to realise Rosberg's tyres had cooled down, and he would have a much better run coming out of Rascasse.

"Credit to Nico. He pulled back a position, and that was entirely down to him."