'It was a f***ing s**t day' - Kvyat

Daniil Kvyat described his Monaco Grand Prix as "a f***ing s**t" day after being sent a lap down early on and eventually retiring after contact.

With the race starting behind the safety car, Kvyat immediately came over team radio complaining as he was stuck at 60kph due to an electronics problem. The Russian lost places and was forced to pit for a new steering wheel, eventually falling a lap down.

Trying to unlap himself, Kvyat then had light contact with Kevin Magnussen on two occasions before colliding with the Renault at Rascasse and retiring, and he did not hold back after the race.

"It was a fucking shit day, I don’t know we’ve thrown away another opportunity, we need to get better organised with these things," Kvyat said. "To be stuck at 60kph at the start of the race unfortunately these things happen but I understand, but it cannot happen in the future because we could have scored good points. We had a potential to score good points but there’s no discipline."

With Kvyat hit with a three-place grid penalty for his collision with Magnussen, he blamed the Renault driver for defending too strongly.

"We were racing and he blocked me twice pretty strongly two corners before, we touched, the next corner I tried to go on the inside and he just blocked me completely. So I couldn’t go through the wall so I had to go through him.

"I had a couple of moves in that corner two laps before, when you find a driver who really doesn’t want to let you by sometimes a crash happens.

"I managed to make it work with other cars because I wanted to unlap myself, he was on for a lot of racing today so I had nothing to lose anyway so I was going for it and he seemed to really want to block me.

"Like I said the fight was on for a few corners and I thought that I could pass him and it didn’t happen so to be honest I didn’t really care at that point about this incident because my race was ruined anyway."