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'He pushed me off the track and that's not very nice'

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ESPN rounds up the best radio soundbites after a Mercedes strategy blunder robbed one of its drivers and gifted the other.

"The strategy is to go as fast as possible and overtake as many cars as you can."

Fans of the old F1, look away now. Carlos Sainz is given permission to drive flat out as he nears his first pit stop.

"We think the brakes are OK now."
"The brakes are not OK."

The driver always knows best, as this exchange between Lotus and Pastor Maldonado proves.

"Come on, where is these blue flags? Do I have to f****** overtake him or what?"

Kimi Raikkonen fumes at a backmarker refusing to let him by around the twisty confines of Monte Carlo...

"Did you see what that car did? He pushed me off the track and that's not very nice."

...But he gets shown how to pass a car on the Monaco circuit after Daniel Ricciardo muscled past at Mirabeau eight laps from the finish, leading to another exacerbated radio message from the Finn.

"I've lost this race, haven't I?"

The severity of Mercedes' strategy call starts to dawn on Lewis Hamilton as he stares at the back of Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari.

"Please stop talking to me, please."

Having failed to get past Vettel in the crucial laps after the end of the safety car period, Hamilton asks Mercedes for silence in the cockpit as he continues chasing the Ferrari.

"Really sorry Lewis. We're going to have to have a word with the pit wall."

A sheepish Peter Bonnington apologises to Hamilton after the chequered flag.

"Wooohoo! YES!"

One man's despair is another man's joy - Nico Rosberg celebrates a Monaco victory that seemed impossible until lap 63.