Fernando Alonso on Sunday returned to the lead of the world championship by comfortably heading a dominant McLaren one-two ahead of his rookie team-mate Lewis Hamilton on the streets of Monaco.
The back to back title winner's victory - the 150th for Woking based McLaren - is his second successive win from pole in the Principality, and he also set the fastest lap of the race.
Alonso's ten points draws him level with Hamilton in the drivers' points standings with 38 points, but the Spaniard grabs top spot by virtue of his wins.
Felipe Massa, a full minute behind, completed the podium ahead of Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella, who was lapped. Massa now has 33 points, five shy of the McLaren duo.
The closest Hamilton got to his Spanish rival was in the closing stages, when some observers expected that Alonso had deliberately dropped his pace. The final margin was four seconds, after Hamilton also cruised for the line.
Kimi Raikkonen salvaged one point with a run to eighth and is now a distant fourth in the standings with 23 points.
1. F.Alonso
2. L.Hamilton
3. F.Massa