Kimi Antonelli won his fifth consecutive Formula 1 grand prix in Monaco. Behind him, nearly everything fell apart. And the most consequential thing that happened all weekend had nothing to do with the race.

But the conversation was not really about the race. It became about something else. A one-page document that arrived in the paddock motorhomes on Sunday, circulating through teams while the celebration in the harbor was still going. The ADUO verdict named Red Bull's engine the benchmark -- and handed Mercedes the right to keep developing. A system written into the rules specifically to prevent another era of Mercedes dominance may have just done the opposite. Joe explains what it means. Dick explains why the measurement at the heart of it doesn't make sense. Sabrina asks the question nobody seemed to want to answer: is there any version of this that isn't political?

Oh yeah. There was also a race. Pierre Gasly finished third on the road and seventh in the results -- penalized by margins under 0.1 km/h that Joe called daft and Dick called the rules being the rules. George Russell served a penalty, then served it wrong, then fell 68 points behind his teammate in the championship. Charles Leclerc lost three of four brakes and hit the wall. Max Verstappen's power unit failed before he reached the grid.

Joe's verdict on what Monaco told us about the development race: nothing, because Monaco is an anomaly, and everything behind Kimi was chaos, not data. Dick's read on Barcelona -- the next real test. And whether the three of them can agree on what this season is actually becoming.

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Kimi Antonelli won his fifth consecutive at Monaco -- the youngest winner in the race's history. He led every lap. He set pole and fastest lap. And when the restart came, the moment that had been his one visible vulnerability this season, he was flawless.

Everything behind him was chaos, heartbreak, and questions that don't have clean answers yet.

Pierre Gasly crossed the line third for Alpine. Two pit lane speeding penalties dropped him to seventh.

George Russell had a penalty compounded by a communication breakdown that meant it wasn't served correctly. He was running third at the time. Sabrina does not think his season is over.

Charles Leclerc had a weekend where the outcome may have been decided before the race began.

Max Verstappen qualified second, which was arguably the most impressive single lap of the weekend, and retired on the formation lap with a power unit failure Red Bull had already planned to replace after Monaco.

And then there is the story most fans missed entirely. On Sunday, the FIA delivered its first ADUO verdict -- a catch-up mechanism built into the 2026 engine regulations, designed to give struggling manufacturers additional development allowances to close the gap. Sabrina walks through what she understands, where her limitations are, and why the political movement in Barcelona may matter more than the race result.

There is also the grid walk. Martin Brundle. And a conversation about who Formula 1 is for --- and who keeps getting it wrong.

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Listener Drew asks: would driving Monaco in the opposite direction make the racing better? It's a clever way of asking the real question — is F1's most prestigious race also its worst, and can anything actually fix it?

In this episode, Dick and Sabrina take that question to Joe Saward, who has been going to Monaco since the early 1980s and has a clear-eyed view of exactly what the circuit is and isn't. The short answer on reverse direction: you'd need to demolish several hotels. The longer answer is more interesting.

Joe walks through the history of how Monaco came to host a Grand Prix at all — and it turns out it had almost nothing to do with motorsport. Dick reflects on what his daughter told him after seeing the track in person for the first time, which is something TV will never convey. And the three of them work through the real tension Liberty Media faces every time Monaco's contract comes up: the racing may be processional, but Joe's position is that Formula 1 has exactly two non-negotiables. Monaco is one of them.

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