There will be few Formula 1 races more frustrating than the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix for much of the field.
But some drivers had a lot more to be annoyed about than others, either through self-inflicted mistakes or bad luck.
Here are our picks for the biggest winners and losers from the race:
Winner: Lando Norris
Lando Norris has taken a lot of stick for his driving this season so far (criticism he often agrees with), but there can be no arguing that this was one of his most convincing weekends in F1 so far.
He delivered the laptime he needed to in qualifying, just about avoided going down the escape road at Ste Devote on the opening lap, and then withstood the pressure of being sandwiched between Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc in the closing laps.
There's now just three points between Piastri and Norris in the title race and given his qualifying turnaround, Norris can be tentatively hopeful that Monaco can be a turning point in an intra-team fight that was increasingly trending towards Piastri. - Josh Suttill
Loser: Mercedes
It would be easy to jump on George Russell's Saturday admission that Mercedes had no strategy plan for starting in the midfield and go 'maybe you should've thought of one' given how unproductive its eventual 'just stay out' strategy ended up as Russell and Kimi Antonelli finished 11th and 18th.
But Russell's point after qualifying that Mercedes was probably doomed whatever it tried was also true, and it's not like pitting on lap one did anyone any favours in the end.
Cutting the chicane and not giving a place back because a penalty seemed more appealing than more laps behind Albon wasn't a great look. But neither were Williams's tactics. - Matt Beer
Winner: Ferrari
Although this was a personally disappointing outcome for Leclerc, who clearly had the pace to make it two successive Monaco GP victories but for his narrow failure to secure pole position on Saturday, this still has to go down as Ferrari's best weekend of 2025 so far.
Firstly, the car was properly competitive - genuinely in the hunt for victory with McLaren rather than chasing them (as in China before the double DSQ) or, as has been the case at the previous two races, scrapping with Williams to be fourth or fifth best.
There are some very specific reasons why Ferrari was so competitive in Monaco that probably won't translate to more conventional circuits, where the car will have to be run lower and the set-up compromised to suit much higher speeds.
But regardless of that, Ferrari's biggest points haul of the season (28), and moving only five points behind Mercedes and one point behind Red Bull in the battle to be second in the constructors' championship, has to go down as a victory after a particularly bruising run through Miami and Imola. - Ben Anderson
Loser: F1
More interesting than the extremely uninteresting 2024 race, but the winner was basically obvious from the outset and a load of midfield roadblocks causing traffic jams to help team-mates didn't create an engaging spectacle.
When even the drivers and teams creating those traffic jams admit they don't really want to be doing it and felt like they were manipulating the race, you know the format just isn't the right one.
Monaco 2026 can't be a repeat of this. - MB
Winner: Racing Bulls
Racing Bulls took a fair bit of flak for awful strategy back in China, but this time the team really played the (mandatory) two-stopper perfectly.
Rather than focusing on trying to race Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari for fifth, the team used Liam Lawson as a road block to ensure Isack Hadjar could clear his two pitstops and secure a comfortable sixth place.
The fact Williams then mimicked this strategy to protect lesser points finishes for Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz meant Lawson's sacrifice actually amounted to a place gained once Fernando Alonso's Mercedes engine expired!
Helping Esteban Ocon to seventh place was the unintended consequence, but Racing Bulls still scored as many points as its parent team Red Bull in this race - and jumped Aston Martin into seventh place in the constructors' championship too. - BA
Loser: Fernando Alonso
The 'unluckiest driver in Formula 1' was struck down again in Monaco. Superb qualifying performance, absolutely annihilated his wayward team-mate all weekend, looking certain to finish in the top seven - despite Aston Martin perhaps not playing his strategy quite right - and yet still no points after his Mercedes engine went bang.
The fact this season is going worse in terms of results than Alonso's awful 2015 start with McLaren-Honda is almost beyond a joke considering how well he's driven this past fortnight in an upgraded Aston Martin that finally looks like a car that has the pace to fight for half-decent results. - BA
Winner: Isack Hadjar
Given he qualified and finished sixth, you wouldn't have known this was Hadjar's first time at Monaco in an F1 car.
Hadjar benefitted from the aforementioned, superbly crafty Racing Bulls strategy, but he got himself there in the first place with a stellar qualifying effort.
And given this was a weekend which started with two wall clips on Friday that so easily could have been confidence-breakers, it's impressive that Hadjar has followed that up by taking the best result of his brief F1 career so far. - JS
Loser: Yuki Tsunoda
Setting the self-inflicted car-spec difference with Verstappen aside, Tsunoda just looks increasingly stuck as a Red Bull driver.
Regardless of the track, or how well the Red Bull suits it, the pattern repeats: Tsunoda looks respectably close to Verstappen on Friday but, as the weekend wears on and the track grip (and the level of risk) ramps up, the gap widens to a chasm.
Tsunoda was the worst of the four Red Bull drivers here, behind even the driver he replaced at Red Bull after two 2025 grands prix.
Whatever Red Bull saw in Tsunoda at the start of this year to make it reverse the decision to promote Lawson, we're just not seeing it realised.
This is so far all looking very Sergio Perez - only without any peaks to offset the relentless troughs. - BA
Winner: Esteban Ocon
Things were starting to look worryingly familiar for Ocon at Haas pre-Monaco.
There were hints of an issue on his side of the garage specifically that was costing him time versus Ollie Bearman, and he'd spent three consecutive weekends out of the points.
But he was right back on form in Monaco, emphatically outperforming Bearman and driving a really solid race to seventh, even if he inadvertently benefitted from Lawson slowing down the chasing pack to run behind Hadjar and take a solid runner-up spot in the Class B fight.
Another six points means Ocon is up to ninth in the drivers' championship and has 20 points to Bearman's six in 2025 so far. - JS
Loser: Pierre Gasly
There wasn't much evidence that pitting on lap one was going to be the golden strategy ticket it was tipped to be, but barrelling into Tsunoda ensured it definitely wasn't for Pierre Gasly.
Not that he had any realistic prospect of getting much out of a really unimpressive Alpine weekend anyway. - MB
