Rain tried to liven up the Monaco Grand Prix, but the end result was still the same: Max Verstappen won. With him on the podium were Alonso and Ocon, while Ferrari were once again forced to watch from the sidelines. Let's see what the main Italian media wrote about it.

Sky Sports (Italian branch)

Once again Sky Sports produces their usual ratings, and once again Verstappen deserves a 10. Sainz gets a 5 "Starts fourth, finishes eighth. Just bad luck?" and Leclerc a 6 "Starts sixth, finishes sixth. Nothing to add."

However, the Italian broadcaster thinks that Ferrari could not have done much more: 'Verstappen was dominant in all track conditions, even when the rain came. He showed patience, endurance and remarkable tyre management. Instead, it all went wrong for team-mate Perez. And the Ferrari? From the outside, it's easy to judge, in my opinion, they did everything they could'.

La Gazzetta dello Sport

"Not even Monte Carlo brought some smiles back to the Ferrari house. The red car's plan was to confirm its single-lap qualities. To get there in front in qualifying and then try to manage the situation on a track where even yesterday's race confirmed it, it counts above all to be found lucid and reactive at the time of the pit stops," wrote the Gazzetta dello Sport, which then continued: "Instead Ferrari leaves the Principality destination Montmelo' with Leclerc's sixth place and Carlos Sainz's eighth. Another bitter pill. What didn't work? Unfortunately a lot. The car, driver and whole package this weekend did not make a difference.'

For the pink daily, Ferrari once again confirmed their flaws, while failing to exploit their strengths. "Charles Leclerc confirmed that also this weekend it was seen that the tyre degradation problem remains a weak point on which a lot of work needs to be done. Moreover, if in Baku the Monegasque had extracted all the potential from the SF-23, taking pole, in Monaco, Charles was unable to get on the front row. And yes, in the last two seasons, it was he who had given driving lessons in qualifying, with two consecutive poles.

Corriere della Sera

In their ratings, the Corriere della Sera gives out 10s to the entire podium, even though one of the three should be used to it by now: "The way things are going, the vote for Super Max comes by default. But he always finds a way to justify it: on this occasion, the masterpiece was the lap for pole position. However, he didn't joke in the race either: elongation, authoritative control, perfect handling in the wet and success number 39.

5 is the grade for both Ferrari drivers, with Sainz who was 'in too much of a hurry to attack Ocon, with whom he seemed to have a score to settle: after hitting him at the port chicane, damaging the front wing, he pushed him again and received a black/white flag' and Leclerc who fails to do well at home: 'His Monte Carlo remains a taboo once again. Having said that the premises for another Monegasque Sunday in white were set by the team's mistake during qualifying, it has not escaped notice that Charles has never been a protagonist'.

Autosprint

Autosprint focuses in particular on Alonso's race: 'He knows very well that he has already won politically, ideally and existentially the most beautiful and almost impossible battle. The one aimed at demonstrating that he is, well into his forties, a top driver intact, the animal in the media as well as in competition, capable of taking pole at the last push at Monte Carlo. The idea is that Alonso could even have won 'if they had fitted him with a set of intermediates immediately, at the first drops, on lap 55. Instead they planted four useless intermediate tyres on him, changed the next round, making him lose a little over twenty seconds. That is the final gap to Max Verstappen'.

Then Autosprint also analyses the Ferrari drivers' weekend. "Not even this time the home GP smiled on Charles Leclerc. Already on Saturday afternoon the first cold shower had arrived with a three-place grid penalty for impeding Lando Norris. Starting sixth, Charles tried to extend his stint on hard tyres as much as possible in the race to try and take advantage of a Safety Car or rain. Rain that came too late, at least for Ferrari,' Leclerc is quoted as saying.

For Sainz, the picture is even worse: 'Too many driving mistakes, too many flicks against the wall, a serious error in strategy, imposed by the Ferrari wall, and a very nervous race, documented by the many angry radio communications. The Spaniard's mood is a mixture of disappointment, frustration and regret'.