Biggest ever blunder in the history of F1? Mercedes and Hamilton throw away win.

Hamilton can't believe it...

Vettel: "Hey, I'm happy!" FTW

I can't think of a greater moment of collective madness as we witnessed today in Monaco,  a track where position is king and passing impossible.    

Verstappen and Grosjean came together (big cheer for the effectiveness of TecPro barriers)  bringing out the Safety Car when Hamilton had a comfortable lead over his teammate Rosberg.    Hamilton pits for a new set of tires but comes out behind Nico and Vettel who had made the very obvious choice of staying out.

OK, maybe Bjorn Wirdheim's cock up in GP2 was worse but GP2 does not have hundreds of strategists working out every possible angle, nor a two time World Champion behind the wheel.

Mercedes was hallucinating but Hamilton himself should have had the presence of mind to question such a ridiculous call from the team.

Anyway,  that's racing,  shit happens.

Chin up, don't pout.

Pos	Driver	Car	Laps	Gap
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	78	1h49m18.420s
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	78	-8'01.379
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	78	-7'59.812
4	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	78	-7'53.900
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	78	-7'52.257
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	78	-7'51.519
7	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	78	-7'50.852
8	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	78	-7'49.802
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	78	-7'42.245
10	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	78	-7'40.809
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	78	-7'39.633
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	78	-7'37.450
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	78	-7'34.706
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	78	-7'20.076
15	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	77	1 Lap
16	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	76	2 Laps
17	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	76	2 Laps
-	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	62	Collision
-	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	41	Gearbox
-	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	5	Brakes