HAMILTON, ROSBERG, RICCIARDO AND THE FATES OF THE GODS

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ewis Hamilton has finally achieved his first Grand Prix race during 2016. In doing so, he has 'chosen' the carnage filled but thrilling Monaco Grand Prix as the occasion.

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onaco 2016, as have been others before it, presented the drivers with more challenges than many of them would have wanted, with the bad luck of some being transformed into becoming the good fortune of others; as was the case with Ricciardo and Hamilton, respectively.

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ith the race having started under the aegis of the Safety Car, due to the heavy rain and hazardous conditions pertaining, it was not initially obvious that it would evolved into becoming so spectacular and accident prove. 

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ate had decreed that many a car were to come to grief as they unsuccessfully negotiated the beckoning and hazardous track daring them to find the path of complete synchronisity and become one with it and flow to the end.  Hamilton and Rosberg worked together to enable Hamilton to overtake Rosberg, who was having problems with his car, and to allow Hamilton to make a strong and eventually successful challenge to Ricciardo, who started on Pole. Ricciardo's race was lost, as it transpired,  due to  a costly miscommunication between members of Red Bull's team, which led to Daniel waiting in the Pit for his new tyres to be brought to and place on his car, and to Hamilton's effectiveness in fending off Ricciardo's subsequently daring challenges.

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uch were the challenging conditions of ~Monaco, that even the intripid Verstappen, winner of Spanish Grand Prix, was only one of many drivers to be claimed with the walls of  the Monaco Circuit.

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es, and the big winner was Lewis Hamilton, who initially found it difficult to contain his understandable excitement; doubtlessly, and at last, feeling 10 feet tall. Ricciardo, on the other hand, was a man who, understandably, felt like his gut had been wrenched out and had difficulty in containing his frustration and incredulity that a race he felt he was destined to win, had so cruelly been plucked from his grasp by the gods.

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owever good a person is at doing whatever they do, the outcome is never always entirely due to the mastery of their performance. Fate and the gods have a way of intervening and dishing out good and misfortune with no regards to the status of the willing or unwilling recepients.

OWOHROD