Isola: Lauda would have been proud of Hamilton's win

Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola says that Lewis Hamilton's victory at the Monaco Grand Prix would have made Niki Lauda proud.

The Mercedes driver was forced to drive 68 laps on the medium tyres and keep Max Verstappen behind after Mercedes made a rare strategy error in fitting the wrong compound tyres.

Despite Thursday's practice sessions indicating that the hard tyre would not work well in the race, it was the tyre to be on come Sunday as Hamilton found out, nursing his medium tyres home to a difficult race win.

“We saw a thrilling grand prix in uncertain weather conditions with a great duel between Hamilton and Verstappen throughout most of it: so close that there was even some contact between them just a few laps from the finish," Isola said.