Vettel, Ferrari extend lead in championships

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Sebastian Vettel is now 25 points ahead of Lewis Hamilton on the 2017 Formula 1 drivers world championship.

Vettel pulled 19 points further ahead of Hamilton after the Monaco Grand Prix. Vettel won the race, while Hamilton could only manage seventh place after starting from 13th.

In third place, Hamilton's Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas has closed the gap to Hamilton to 29 points. The Finn was fourth in Sunday's race.

His compatriot Raikkonen is eight points further back in fourth place in the standings after coming second to Vettel in Monaco.

Red Bull pair Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen are fifth and sixth, with Force India's Sergio Perez losing ground after his first pointless race of 2017.

Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz moves up to eighth place in the championship, ahead of Williams' Felipe Massa and Force India's Esteban Ocon.

Vettel takes complete control over Raikkonen at Monaco

In the constructors championship, Ferrari scored the maximum 43 points possible from Monaco, meaning they overhaul Mercedes at the top of the standings.

Ferrari now has a 17 advantage over their rivals after six rounds of the 20-race season.

Red Bull stays in third place, but has pulled away from Force India after Sunday's race. Similarly, fifth place Toro Ross have improved their advantage over Williams to nine points.

With Renault failing to score in Monaco, and Haas getting both drivers in the top ten, the two teams are now tied on 14 points in seventh and eighth place.

Double retirements for both Sauber and McLaren mean that neither team make any progress in the battle of the teams. They continue to prop up the standings: Sauber has four points from Spain, but McLaren has yet to finish in the top ten in 2017.

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.