Reigning world champion, Fernando Alonso has won the Monaco Grand Prix, leading from start to finish at the principality, the seventh round in the 2006 FIA Formula One World Championship.

The Spaniard, who started from pole, finished the event around 15 seconds up on Juan Montoya, who was runner-up for McLaren-Mercedes.

Alonso began the event perfectly, with a textbook start, to maintain P1 into the first corner. Initially Mark Webber led the chasing pack, until a mistake at the start of the second lap, when he went wide going up the hill, let Kimi Raikkonen through to hassle for the lead. Alonso and Raikkonen then traded fastest laps, but the 'ice-man' could find no way by as is the norm on the tight and twisty confines that make up the Monte Carlo challenge.

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