Hamilton endured one of his most difficult weekends as a Mercedes driv𒊎er around the streets of Monte Carlo.

The seven-time champion qualified and finished in seventh plac👍e, while main title rival Verstappen dominated the race to win in the princ🎉ipality.

Setup issues in qualifying were compounded by Mercedes’ poor strategy call to bring Hamilton in on Lap 29 - the first of the leading gr🍨oup.

The Mercedes driver was overcut by Pierre Gasly, Sebastian Vettel and then Sergio Perez, ensuring he couldn’t b🌜enefit from Charles Leclerc’s non-start and🐭 teammate Valtteri Bottas’ botched pit stop, which forced him out of the race.

“We lost a lot of point🦩s today for a really, really poor performance from the team,'' Hamilton said. “I’m definitely a little🌱 bit surprised by it, but these things are sent to try us.

“Three places it cost us [the strategy]. I don’t really have a reaction to it. I think we do all our ta💧lking in the background and we’ll work together and try and come out of this stronger. We underperformed as a team all weekend from the get-gไo so we’ll just put our focus onto the next race.”

Having been critical of💯 the Monacꦍo layout ahead of the weekend, Hamilton again described the race as “dull”.

“Dull,” Hamilton added. “But Monaco really always is, no matter what position I’m in if I’m really honest, it’s not a fun race because you’re🌼 🤡just following people, you can’t overtake them.

“So even when you’re in the lead, honestly I’ve sat in the lead and of▨ course it’s a greatꦬ feeling to win, but the race is actually really, really boring and you’re just doing the same thing 78 times.”