The race is on and Max Verstappen took the world championship lead with victory in the Monaco Grand Prix,

but he needed some help from Ferrari and Charlotte Clark to do so, with a drive shaft problem preventing them from starting from pole position.

I'm Edstraw draw and joining me to

explain how and why this all happened are Scott Mitchell and Mark Hughes. Well Mark, we've had two

years away from Monaco. It's absolutely great to have F1 back there, isn't it? It may not have been

a blockbusting race, but just seeing these cars wending their way through the impossibly narrow streets is

just something else, isn't it? Yeah, it's always a fantastic spectacle, isn't it? And it's just

like a celebration of F1 and a celebration of life as we used to know it, I guess, but, and hopefully

we'll know it again sometime down the road but yeah always always a fantastic

spectacle not always a great race yeah that's just the nature of it but scott mitchell out in sweden

obviously i'm here on the ground in monaco you're in your your Swedish palace as i like to

consider it but there are people criticizing about how it's processional and boring.

And the race, there wasn't a great deal of movement.

But I think this race does still have something special even when it's a relatively

boring one, doesn't it?

Yeah, there's enough going on throughout the week.

And there's enough that's unique about it when um when we get

into the competitive stuff across saturday and sunday that that more than merits a place on

on the calendar it is a in some ways of a sort of a relic of a bygone era for f1 but i love it purely

because it's probably the only race in Formula One that if you tried to make it

happen now, you'd never get anywhere trying to make a Monaco Grand Prix happen now, would you?

But so, so it's just, it's just one of those things that if it wasn't there, you wouldn't

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