Monaco Grand Prix driver ratings

44 Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes F1 W08

Start: 13th
Finish: 7th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 6

Hamilton struggled more than Bottas on the ultra-soft tyre and also gets marked down for making too many errors in Q2, though he was unlucky not to make Q3 when Vandoorne's crash scuppered his final attempt at getting into the top 10.

Patience paid off in the race. He passed Vandoorne at the start, benefited from trouble for Hulkenberg and Perez, and showed decent pace on used tyres to jump Kvyat, Magnussen and Grosjean in the pits.

77 Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes F1 W08

Start: 3rd
Finish: 4th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 9

As at Sochi, Bottas coped better than Hamilton with Mercedes' ultra-soft tyre woes - to the point where he was less than half a tenth away from snatching pole with what the team called an "outstanding" lap.

OK, he lost a podium to Ricciardo mainly through strategy, but Bottas did well to manage overheating brakes and tyres and resist heavy pressure from Verstappen at the end.

3 Daniel Ricciardo
Red Bull-Renault RB13

Start: 5th
Finish: 3rd
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 8

Last year's poleman looked in great shape after Thursday practice, but struggled to go any faster thereafter, complaining a "stupid, silly error" from Red Bull also put him in traffic in Q3.

Outstanding speed on used tyres put that right in the race, but he was also very lucky to escape clouting the wall after the safety car restart.

33 Max Verstappen
Red Bull-Renault RB13

Start: 4th
Finish: 5th
Strategy: 2 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 9

Verstappen was flamboyant and committed, but the lap times didn't come until "wrongly calculated" settings were corrected after Thursday practice. He felt the 0.318s gap to pole was "logical" and the best he could do.

He didn't do much wrong in the race. An attempt to jump Bottas with an earlier pitstop failed and that sealed Verstappen's fate on a track where overtaking is tough, and he wasn't happy to learn that Ricciardo's later stop allowed him to jump ahead and relegate Verstappen to fifth.

5 Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari SF70H

Start: 2nd
Finish: 1st
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 9

Vettel looked the favourite for pole after practice, but twice messed up Mirabeau in Q3 so ended up falling fractionally short, and he loses a mark for that.

Whatever Hamilton says about Ferrari favouritism, Vettel still drove a superb race, driving patiently behind Raikkonen through the first stint before closing the gap and unleashing his inner speed demon to jump the sister Ferrari by pitting five laps later. From there, he cruised into the distance, and controlled the race after the late safety car period bunched things up as well.

7 Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari SF70H

Start: 1st
Finish: 2nd
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 8

Raikkonen has too often made mistakes at the crucial moments in qualifying, so it was heartening to see the veteran of more than 250 races getting the job done in Monaco.

His pole lap wasn't clean, but it was enough. He should have won after acing the start, but time lost in traffic and weaker pace than Vettel around the stops cost him dearly. After that, he didn't seem too interested in trying to chase his team-mate down to the chequered flag.

11 Sergio Perez
Force India-Mercedes VJM10

Start: 7th
Finish: 13th
Strategy: 3 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 7

Perez did a decent job in qualifying, but ultimately paid for over-aggression in the race. A touch with Sainz on lap one broke the front wing, but he pulled off passes on Stroll and Palmer in his recovery drive.

An opportunistic lunge on Vandoorne after the restart was fair enough, but his subsequent lunge on Kvyat at Rascasse was silly and threw away a point.

31 Esteban Ocon
Force India-Mercedes VJM10

Start: 15th
Finish: 12th
Strategy: 3 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 7

Ocon learned the hard way how much a crash can cost you in Monaco. He was impressively within three tenths of Perez on Thursday and was quicker in FP3 before shunting at the Swimming Pool.

A loss of confidence in the repaired car and a delay behind Grosjean left him 0.571s adrift and out in Q1. He was set to beat Massa (who ended up ninth) in the race until an unfortunate puncture spoiled everything.

18 Lance Stroll
Williams-Mercedes FW40

Start: 17th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 5

Another Q1 exit and non-finish in another difficult weekend for Stroll, who crashed at Massenet in FP2. Williams felt he was close to matching Massa at times, but a 0.471s deficit was as good as it got before that incident.

A hydraulic leak spoiled Q1, but prior form suggested progression was unlikely. He drove "OK" in the race until his brakes overheated.

19 Felipe Massa
Williams-Mercedes FW40

Start: 14th
Finish: 9th
Strategy: 2 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 7

Massa was frustrated to return to Monaco and discover the 2017 Williams still retains the relative low-speed weakness of its 2014-16 predecessors, and felt he wouldn't have qualified any better even without Vandoorne's crash spoiling his Q2 lap.

He spent the entire race managing his brakes, but it proved worthwhile as the misfortune of others propelled him to an unlikely points finish.

2 Stoffel Vandoorne
McLaren-Honda MCL32

Start: 12th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/super-soft/retired)

Rating: 7

This was Vandoorne's best performance of 2017, even though he crashed twice and ended his weekend in the wall.

He was top-10 fast in Q2 and although he lost out to Hamilton at the start of the race, Vandoorne was on for McLaren's first point until he lost tyre temperature behind the safety car and Perez lunged him into Ste Devote, sending him into the barriers.

22 Jenson Button
McLaren-Honda MCL32

Start: Pits
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 6

Button did a decent job deputising for Fernando Alonso, lapping close to a much-improved Vandoorne and making Q3. Unfortunately, picking up Alonso's 'usage' of engine components meant the changes Honda decided to make on Friday morning incurred grid penalty that sent him to the back of the field.

A first-lap stop after starting from the pits trapped Button into a battle with Wehrlein's Sauber, which eventually led to a lunge at Portier, contact, and another grid penalty, which Button won't serve, as all things being equal this was his last appearance as an F1 race driver. He enjoyed the experience - particularly on Saturday - but says he doesn't want more.

26 Daniil Kvyat
Toro Rosso-Renault STR12

Start: 9th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/super-soft/retired)

Rating: 7

Kvyat looked in great form in practice, feeling hard work after Barcelona massaged the updated STR12 more to his liking. He was unlucky to miss out on Q3 thanks to a "mess" of traffic, and yellow flags for Vandoorne's crash.

He lost ground to Magnussen and Hulkenberg at the start, but was set to salvage points until Perez torpedoed him at Rascasse.

55 Carlos Sainz Jr
Toro Rosso-Renault STR12

Start: 6th
Finish: 6th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 9

A very strong performance from Sainz, who felt confident from the first laps of free practice and revelled in the handling of the STR12, but was still surprised to be best-of-the-rest behind the big three teams in qualifying.

After surviving lap-one contact with Perez, Sainz showed good speed in the race and remained cool under late pressure from Hamilton.

8 Romain Grosjean
Haas-Ferrari VF-17

Start: 8th
Finish: 8th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 7

Grosjean planned differential tweaks in a bid to get back on track in Monaco, and though he still struggled to balance the car he made Q3 again despite a messy start in Q1.

He struggled for speed in the race, so lost out to Hamilton and couldn't threaten Sainz, but at least kept out of trouble to score some valuable points for Haas.

20 Kevin Magnussen
Haas-Ferrari VF-17

Start: 11th
Finish: 10th
Strategy: 2 stops (ultra-soft/super-soft/ultra-soft)

Rating: 8

Magnussen looked really on it all weekend and felt he was easily fast enough to make Q3 without Hamilton - "the worst" - and Kvyat blocking him in Q2.

He fired himself bravely between Hulkenberg and Kvyat at the start and was right on Grosjean's case until a puncture intervened. He can thank the aggressive Perez for clearing a path back into the points.

27 Nico Hulkenberg
Renault RS17

Start: 10th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 8

Renault struggled to find a set-up to get the Pirelli tyres to work in Monaco and was nowhere in Thursday practice. In those circumstances Hulkenberg did well to get within two tenths of making Q3.

He jumped Kvyat off the line and was trying to hang onto Magnussen at the bottom of the top 10 before the gearbox failed.

30 Jolyon Palmer
Renault RS17

Start: 16th
Finish: 11th
Strategy: 1 stop (ultra-soft/super-soft)

Rating: 5

Palmer was keen to get his season back on track after a tough start, but he endured another bad qualifying session, puncturing a tyre against a barrier then failing to hook a lap together after requiring further adjustments to dial out understeer.

He felt the race was his best so far this year, but would have been lucky to score any points.

9 Marcus Ericsson
Sauber-Ferrari C36

Start: 19th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (super-soft/ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 5

Ericsson was mystified by Sauber's loss of form in Monaco, where the car lacked grip all weekend. He qualified only a tenth behind Wehrlein, despite breaking his car against the chicane barrier, but jumped his team-mate with an alternative strategy in the race.

He ran ahead of the unfortunate Ocon until crashing while un-lapping himself behind the safety car, which he blamed on brakes that were too hot, and tyres that were too cold.

94 Pascal Wehrlein
Sauber-Ferrari C36

Start: 18th
Finish: Retired
Strategy: (super-soft/ultra-soft/retired)

Rating: 6

Wehrlein made a slightly better job of the private Sauber battle at the back in qualifying, and gambled on making his only stop at the end of lap one and trying to make the finish on one set of ultra-softs.

This locked him into a battle with Button's McLaren, until Button's optimism got the better of him at Portier, pitching the German's Sauber up onto its side against the barrier.

It was a scary crash, even more so given Wehrlein's back injury sustained earlier this year at the Race of Champions, but he has already been cleared by the FIA to compete in the Canadian Grand Prix after initial checks.