Whilst Mercedes may have got out of Monaco with another maximum haul of 43 points, their team members were likely not the ones coming out of the principality with the biggest grins on their faces.

That honour would surely go to Marussia, who scored points for the first time - at the 83rd attempt. And not only have they broken their duck before minnow rivals Caterham, the team with the lowest budget in F1 have spectacularly nudged ahead of Sauber in the Constructors’ Championship.

The points came courtesy of Jules Bianchi, who could have even bettered that result had he not incurred the wrath of the stewards in Monte Carlo.

While Max Chilton - in the sister Marussia - closes in on a record for most consecutive finishes, there was a sneaky suspicion about there being some special hidden talent in the Frenchman’s armoury after adapting to his first F1 car remarkably quickly – he finished comfortably ahead of Chilton on the pair’s debuts despite only being announced a week before last year’s Australian Grand Prix.

The lack of relative pace in his machinery has left the Ferrari academy graduate struggling to show his true potential, but regardless of how they come, results in Formula One are no fluke. Particularly round the narrow streets of Monte-Carlo, where the slightest lapse in concentration sees you become best friends with a barrier in rapid fashion.

Montreal is another circuit which requires absolute precision, with close walls at the exit of chicanes ready to catch the unfocussed out.

Nobody will be expecting a similar result from Bianchi or indeed Chilton, unless there is once again a high rate of attrition. What will be interesting to pick up on, however, will be any changes in psychology from driver and team – whether that amazing result in Monaco will relax everyone involved with the Banbury squad.

With the points acquired last time out, all the pressure at the back will now be on Caterham and not Marussia, and in particular Bianchi, who has nothing to prove to anyone in the paddock thanks to his outstanding drive to ninth. Two seasons at the back of the grid may well be enough for the man from Nice, who will look to impress teams higher up the order.

Outstanding performances at the back of the grid propelled the likes of Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber to greater things and there is little reason that Bianchi could not join that club.

As aforementioned, very few expect him to add to his tally of two points in Canada, but outperforming Chilton now – and all the way through to the end of the season – will likely see Bianchi earn a lot of suitors. 

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