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Lewis Hamilton won the Monaco Grand Prix with a puncture on Sunday, which has been confirmed by Pedro de la Rosa who said “It is true that he finished the race with a slow puncture.”

Hamilton was the first English winner since Graham Hill back in 1969 which Martin Whitmarsh said “The key was having the right strategy, making the right calls and keeping out of the barriers. But at the time to make decisions, we made the right decisions. It was good, and Lewis apart from that minor mistake, and remember other people made much bigger mistakes was key to it as well. It was fantastic in very, very difficult conditions. We made the right calls at the right time, the strategy was good throughout the race and Lewis was blinding through most of it.”

The team Chief also said that Lewis was “lucky to finish” after gaining his second puncture during the race. He said “He had a puncture on the slow-down lap as well as the one earlier so we were lucky in that regard. It was a right rear puncture, probably from debris from Nico Rosberg’s accident.”

It was fortunate that the race was ended early, only doing 76 of the 78 laps due to rain and the safety car incidents and the fact that the race had to finish within two hours ,otherwise Hamilton would have had to pit again and probably not have won the race.