Nico Rosberg took his second career victory at the Monaco Grand Prix

Nico Rosberg repeats dad Keke Rosberg´s fete of winning the Monaco Grand Prix 30years ago and Nico´s second career race win in F1 and claiming first victory of 2013 for self and the Mercedes team.

Nico led the race from start to finish in an incident packed race which had two safety car periods and one red flag incident. Mercedes drivers controlled the race pace perfectly in the early stages with Nico in the lead and Lewis defending others from second position until the first safety car period due to Massa crash which saw Lewis lose couple of places to the Red Bulls of Vettel and Webber as he failed to maintain 6sec gap to Nico during pitstop to retain second position

As the race resumed Nico was safely in lead while Vettel and Webber held Hamilton in fourth. The action was mainly in the mid pack as Sergio Perez made some aggressive moves to overtake team mate Button and Ferrari man Alonso. Controversy erupted on the Alonso –Sergio move on the chicane which Alonso cut across the turn to retain the position and claimed he did that to avoid collision while the McLaren team appealed to stewards.

Within few minutes a collision happened involving Pastor Maldonado and Max Chilton which air lifted Maldonado and took him straight into the barriers after loosing his front wing and also hit Jules Bianchi´s Marussia which was behind. Though the Williams driver was able to walk away, the race was red flagged as the barriers had to be repaired.

After a brief formation on the grid the race restarted under the safety car with information from stewards for Alonso to give back the position to Perez and Chilton to serve a drive thru penalty for causing Maldonado´s crash.

The race began aggressive with Lewis attacking Webber and Alonso going after Perez while Force India´s Adrian Sutil was climbing up the ladder with some beautiful overtaking on the inside at the hairpin.

The Safety car was called in again for the second time as Ricciardo was hit from behind by Grosjean coming out of the tunnel.

Nico held onto the lead after the restart while Vettel couldnt pose any challenge and was radioed to take care of the tryes and maintain position. Hamilton was also told to save tryes and give up hunting Webber for third.

As the race was nearing the last part, Perez became too aggressive and went on the inside towards the chicane and as Raikkonen turned in the McLaren driver had to shave the barriers and then clip the rear of Raikkonen´s Lotus causing a puncture.

Raikkonen went in for new tryes and dropped to the tail end of the field while Perez continued for few laps with damaged aero holding the others behind but had to stop forcefully into retirement.

Nico Rosberg took his second career win with complete domination of the whole weekend in his home city, while Red Bulls got the better of Hamilton´s safety car error. Force India´s Adrian Sutil finished a fantastic fifth ahead of Button, Alonso, Verge, Di Resta and a massive recovery drive from Raikkonen to grab the last point.