MONDAY MORNING DEBRIEF: Would Alonso have won in Monaco if he'd made the right tyre call when the rain hit?


The closest Fernando Alonso came to denying Max Verstappen his dominant Monaco Grand Prix victory was when the rain came in the second half of the race. The timing of their respective pit stops and the choices made there brought a momentary uncertainty to the outcome.
The rain first landed down at the Fairmont hairpin and the following two corners to Portier but took a couple of laps to begin spreading its way around the circuit.
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