Sergio Perez has won a rain-delayed, crash-halted and ultimately nailbiting Monaco Grand Prix for Red Bull to realise his dream, as another evaporated for Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
The Mexican's teammate, Max Verstappen, finished third to stretch his Formula One championship lead over fourth-placed Leclerc to nine points, after seven of 22 races.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz was second, for the second year in succession.
Leclerc started on pole position, but Ferrari were outsmarted on strategy and he was leapfrogged by the Red Bull drivers in pitstops.
He at least ended a home jinx to become the first Monegasque to score at Monaco, since Louis Chiron finished third in 1950 - the year the championship began - but the race had promised so much more.
The win was the third of Perez's career and second for Red Bull, and ended with a thrilling chase on a treacherous street circuit, where the difference between success and failure is measured in millimetres.
The top four at the chequered flag were separated by a mere 2.9 seconds.
"This is us! Come on, vamos," screamed Perez, as he crossed the finish line 1.1 seconds ahead of Sainz, with Verstappen a further 0.3 behind.
"It's a dream come true," he said. "After your home race, it's the most special race to win."
The showcase race, whose future is being increasingly questioned, as Formula One expands to new venues in the Americas and Middle East, was twice redflagged and shortened from 77 scheduled laps to 64, after running out of time.
Perez was only the third driver to win a race this season, with Verstappen winning four of the previous six and Leclerc the other two.
Verstappen, who had been chasing a fourth win in a row, now has 125 points to Leclerc's 116 with Perez on 110. Red Bull forged 36 points clear of Ferrari in the constructors standings.
George Russell was fifth for Mercedes, ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris and Alpine's Fernando Alonso.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton took eighth for Mercedes, with Valtteri Bottas ninth for Alfa Romeo and Sebastian Vettel 10th for Aston Martin.
Reuters
