Peter Bonnington, Hamilton's race engineer: "OK, Lewis, there's a chance of some very light rain in about five minutes."

Chris Lord: Leclerc hasn’t finished a single race in Monaco. Has been classified twice but never seen the chequered flag.

Kenny Kong: Very much feeling for Leclerc, retiring in his home GP in his first with Ferrari after a chaotic weekend. Canada couldn't come soon enough for the poor lad.

Tom Dee: Leclerc destroyed his car with immature driving!

JavelBleach: #Bottas is gonna win this.

• Hamilton leads from pole
• Leclerc started P15, and got up to P12 with some impressive overtakes, but made contact when overtaking Hulkenberg and punctured. He pitted for fresh tyres but had significant damage on the car and retired at his home race
• Max Verstappen was released into the path of Valtteri Bottas in the pitlane, Bottas hit the wall and punctured, the team quickly pitted Bottas for new hard tyres, and Verstappen has been given a 5-second time penalty.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

Hamilton is driving like a granny, they’re all driving like grannies except for maybe George Russell.

Maybe they are doing grannies a disservice right now.

That unsafe release from Red Bull gives Max Verstappen a five-second penalty. That would drop him down to eighth at the moment so there will be no holding Max back now.

Lewis Hamilton: "Question: does James [Vowles] think I'm in trouble with these tyres?"

Live footage after that Kubica spin holds everyone up.

If Verstappen and Bottas are both penalised then that is going to give Lewis Hamilton a big old lead in this race. At the moment though, he doesn't and is extremely unhappy with his tyres.

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Thomas Knights A yellow car holding up half the field driving his own pace, Ricciardo doing an amazing impression of a Trulli train.

Josh Earl: a weekend to forget for Leclerc. I suspect he might not forget it very quickly though.

Alex Lloyd: How has it taken this long to start investigating this incident, let alone this long to come to a conclusion, it’s clear cut. All these excuses and reasons for why it happened are arbitrary. It was an unsafe release. Clearest unsafe release ever

It was sadly inevitable after spinning after contact with Hulkenberg, a horrible puncture and damaging his car badly trying to get it back into the pits.

Many, many home fans will be disappointed at that one. The young man himself will be extremely distraught. He tried his best, provided great entertainment with his attacks but the assist for his failure has to go to Ferrari's strategist who didn't send him back out for the second runs in Q1 yesterday and saw him start down in 15th.

"I'm the first one to not give up, but the car is extremely difficult to drive."

What he means is... "I'm the last one to give up."

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Verstappen and Bottas are both under investigation for that pitlane incident.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

Bottas was in the fast lane and Verstappen was released into him and then he put him in the pit wall. It's great that Verstappen is in second but it might be short lived.

Leclerc on to the softs. Still in the race, last and looking to attack.

Jolyon Palmer
Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

A messy one, the door looked like it was open, Giovinazzi hesitated and it sent Kubica spinning.

1. Hamilton (medium)
2. Verstappen (hard)
3. Vettel (hard)
4. Bottas (hard)
5. Gasly (soft)
6. Sainz (soft)
7. Kvyat (soft)
8. Albon (soft)
9. Grosjean (soft)
10. Norris (medium)

Yellow flagpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 26 May 2019

14:35 BST 26 May 2019

Kubica spins and causes a traffic jam, involving another six cars!