2014 Monaco Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 6 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season | |||
Circuit de Monaco
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| Date | 25 May 2014 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2014 | ||
| Location |
Circuit de Monaco La Condamine and Monte Carlo, Monaco |
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| Course | Street circuit | ||
| Course length | 3.340 km (2.075 mi) | ||
| Distance | 78 laps, 260.520 km (161.880 mi) | ||
| Attendance | 60,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:15.989 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Kimi Räikkönen
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Ferrari | |
| Time | 1:18.479 on lap 75 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-Renault | ||
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The 2014 Monaco Grand Prix, formally known as the Grand Prix de Monaco 2014, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 25 May 2014 at the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit that runs through the principality of Monaco. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg won the race ahead of his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
The tension was high between the two Mercedes team mates going into the weekend when Hamilton was found to have altered his car settings during the latter stages of the Spanish Grand Prix, using a higher-powered engine setting than the team had previously allowed in order to stay ahead of teammate Rosberg. Rosberg was then discovered to have done the same while chasing down Hamilton at the end of the Bahrain Grand Prix, though he failed to get past.
Like the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its yellow-marked soft compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-marked super-soft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre, just as they did the previous two years. It was the first time in the season that the super-soft compound was used at a race weekend.
After the first runs in Q3, Rosberg had provisional pole position by 0.059 seconds from Hamilton. During his second and final quick lap, the German ran deep at Turn 5 (Mirabeau) and had to abort his lap, before then reversing back onto the race track. The yellow flags that were brought out as a result of the incident forced Hamilton to slow, ruining his final qualifying lap (after he had set a personal best first sector), which stopped him from challenging Rosberg's earlier time. Red Bull Racing's Daniel Ricciardo was the best of the other drivers, qualifying third.
After the qualifying session had concluded, Nico Rosberg was investigated by the stewards under suspicion of deliberately spoiling Hamilton's lap. The stewards examined video evidence as well as telemetry data from the team and the FIA, eventually concluding that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by Rosberg. Elsewhere, Daniil Kvyat received a reprimand for impeding Pastor Maldonado during the first part of qualifying, while Marcus Ericsson was given two penalty points on his licence as well as a pit lane start for causing a collision with Felipe Massa.
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