Todt not surprised by McLaren dominance

Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton scored a commanding one-two and lapped the entire field with the exception of Felipe Massa's Ferrari - which still finished almost 70 seconds behind.

"We knew from the beginning that they are very strong and here they were stronger, so it was no surprise to find that," Todt said. "So we just say congratulations, and we need to fight in the remaining races in the championship.

"I must say that qualifying was very close for Felipe, because he finished less than one tenth behind Hamilton, 65/1000ths if I remember well, and Kimi had his qualifying problem and he could not go through and he ended up 16th. But saying that, [McLaren] were quickest and basically there's nothing else to say."

When asked about whether there was any reason that Ferrari struggled to match McLaren's pace in Monaco, Todt replied that traffic had prevented a true comparison.

"You talk about the pace. If you take it up to the first pitstop, Felipe was right behind Hamilton," he pointed out.

"Then we decided to put on softer tyres, the other stayed on the harder tyres. Then Felipe took over five laps, I don't know exactly, to pass one car and in those five laps he lost 15 seconds.

"We knew the best he could do was third unless the others in front had a problem. So he stayed in third position."