2015 Mississippi elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann had considered running for Lieutenant Governor against Tate Reeves in the Republican primary. However, he chose to run for re-election to a third term in office instead. Had Hosemann retired or run for another office, potential Republican candidates included State Senator Michael Watson and attorney and Hosemann's former Chief of Staff Cory Wilson.


2015 Mississippi elections, Secretary of State
Retired firefighter Charles Graham is running for the Democrats. State Senator David Blount and former Secretary of State Dick Molpus were potential Democratic candidates, but neither chose to run.


2015 Mississippi elections, Attorney General
Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood had been mentioned as a potential candidate for Governor, but he is instead running for re-election to a fourth term in office.


2015 Mississippi elections, Attorney General
The only candidate to file for the Republican nomination was Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst. Attorney Russ Latino considered running but declined to do so. Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, State Senator Chris McDaniel, State Senator Michael Watson, Jackson County District Attorney Tony Lawrence, Madison and Rankin Counties' District Attorney Michael Guest were all mentioned as potential Republican candidates. However, none of them filed to run. State Representative Mark Baker and attorney, author and former Madison County Supervisor Andy Taggart declined to run.


2015 Mississippi elections, State Auditor
Incumbent Republican State Auditor Stacey Pickering is running for re-election to a third term in office. Pickering is being challenged in the Republican primary by Mary Hawkins-Butler, the Mayor of Madison. State Senator Michael Watson had considered running but did not do so.


2015 Mississippi elections, State Auditor
Joce Pritchett, an engineer, is running as a Democrat. Charles Graham, a retired firefighter, had been running, but decided instead to run for Secretary of State.


2015 Mississippi elections, State Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Lynn Fitch is running for re-election to a second term in office. Attorney David McRae, whose family formerly owned the McRae's department store chain, is running against Fitch in the Republican primary.


2015 Mississippi elections, Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
Incumbent Republican Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Cindy Hyde-Smith is running for re-election to a second term in office


2015 Mississippi elections, Commissioner of Insurance
Incumbent Republican Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney is running for re-election to a third term in office. Businessman John Mosley is running against Chaney in the Republican primary.


2015 Mississippi elections, Commissioner of Insurance
Former State Representative and Director of the Mississippi Democratic Trust Brandon Jones was a possible Democratic candidate. No Democrat filed to run for the office.


2015 Mississippi elections, Public Service Commission, Northern District
Incumbent Democratic Commissioner Brandon Presley had considered running for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, but decided not to and is running for re-election to a third term in office.


2015 Mississippi elections, Public Service Commission, Central District
Incumbent Republican Commissioner Lynn Posey is retiring rather than run for re-election to a third term in office.


2015 Mississippi elections, Public Service Commission, Central District
For the Republicans, Brent Bailey and attorney and candidate for Governor in 2003 Mitch Tyner are running. Other potential Republican candidates were former State Senator and candidate for State Treasurer in 2011 Lee Yancey and Jason Cochran, a utility construction company project manager, the son of former Commissioner Nielsen Cochran and nephew of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran Neither filed to run.


2015 Mississippi elections, Public Service Commission, Central District
Bruce Burton and State Representative Cecil Brown are running for the Democrats. Robert Amos originally qualified as a Democratic candidate for this seat, but switched to run for the Central District of the Transportation Commission.


2015 Mississippi elections, Public Service Commission, Southern District
Incumbent Republican Commissioner Steve Renfroe, who was appointed to the office in September 2013 after Leonard Bentz resigned to become executive director of the South Mississippi Planning and Development District, is not running for election to a full term in office. Sam Britton and State Senator Tony Smith are running for the Republican nomination. State Senator Philip Moran and Hancock County Supervisor Steve Seymour ruled out running and 2011 candidate Travis Rose chose not to run again.


2015 Mississippi elections, Public Service Commission, Southern District
Thomas Blanton was a potential Democratic candidate but he did not file and neither did any other Democrat.


2015 Mississippi elections, Transportation Commission, Northern District
Incumbent Republican Mike Tagert, who won a special election in 2011 following the death of Democratic Commissioner Bill Minor, is running for re-election to a second full term in office. He is also running in the May 2015 special election for Mississippi's 1st congressional district. Hernando Mayor Chip Johnson has announced that he is running for the Republican nomination. An ally of Tagert, he will withdraw from the race if Tagert does not win the Congressional election.


2015 Mississippi elections, Transportation Commission, Central District
Incumbent Republican Commissioner Dick Hall, who was appointed to the Commission in 1999, is running for re-election to a fifth full term in office.


2015 Mississippi elections, Transportation Commission, Central District
Robert Amos is running for the Democrats. Former Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. was a potential Democratic candidate, but he did not run.


2015 Mississippi elections, Transportation Commission, Southern District
Incumbent Republican Commissioner Tom King is running for re-election to a second term in office.


2015 Mississippi elections, Special Congressional election
A special election for Mississippi's 1st congressional district was held to fill the term left by the vacancy created by the death of Alan Nunnelee. Nunnelee, a member of the Republican Party, died on February 6, 2015. The top-two primary was held on May 12, with Democrat Walter Zinn and Republican Trent Kelly advancing. Kelly defeated Zinn in the June 12 runoff election.


2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The 2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 2015, to elect the Governor of Mississippi. Incumbent Republican Governor Phil Bryant ran for re-election to a second and final term in office. This is the highest percentage that a Republican has ever won in a gubernatorial election in Mississippi.


2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election
The election gained national news coverage and attention due to the unexpected Democratic nominee selection of truck driver and former firefighter, Robert Gray, who had not had any political experience prior to his candidacy.


2015 Mississippi gubernatorial election, Background
Mississippi is one of nine states and territories that has lifetime limits of two terms for its governor. In 2011, with incumbent Republican Governor Haley Barbour term-limited, Republican Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant was elected to succeed him. Bryant won the Republican primary with 59% of the vote and then defeated the Democratic nominee, Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree, with 61% of the vote.


2015 Mississippi's 1st congressional district special election
A special election for Mississippi's 1st congressional district was held on May 12, 2015, to fill the term left by the vacancy created by the death of Alan Nunnelee. Nunnelee, a member of the Republican Party, died on February 6, 2015.


2015 Mississippi's 1st congressional district special election
According to Mississippi state law, Governor Phil Bryant had to call the special election within 60 days of Nunnelee's death, and had to be held at least 60 days after the call. Prospective candidates had to submit a petition for ballot access consisting of at least 1,000 signatures of qualified Mississippi voters with the office of the Secretary of State of Mississippi at least 45 days before the election.


2015 Mississippi's 1st congressional district special election, Election format
All candidates ran together on the same primary ballot, irrespective of party affiliation. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a runoff was held on June 2 between Trent Kelly (R) and Walter Zinn (D), the top two finishers.


2015 Missouri State Bears football team
The 2015 Missouri State Bears football team represented Missouri State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Dave Steckel and played their home games at the Plaster Sports Complex. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 1–10, 0–8 in MVFC play to finish in last place.


2015 Missouri Tigers football team
The 2015 Missouri Tigers football team (also called "Mizzou") represented the University of Missouri in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It marked the Tigers' fourth season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the Eastern Division. The team played its home games at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri. They were led by 15th year head coach Gary Pinkel, in what would be his last season as the team's head coach.


2015 Missouri Tigers football team, Schedule
Missouri announced their 2015 football schedule on October 14, 2014. The 2015 schedule consist of 6 home games, 5 away games and 1 neutral game in the regular season. The Tigers will host SEC foes Florida, Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and will travel to Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt.


2015 Missouri Tigers football team, Schedule
Missouri will host Mississippi State for the first time since 1984, when the Tigers were playing in the Big Eight Conference, before joining the SEC 28 years later. That match–up against the Bulldogs will be the third Thursday night game hosted by Missouri in Tiger history. This will be the Tigers' first year without Texas A&M on their schedule since 2009, and the first year without any team from Texas on its schedule since 1984.


2015 Missouri Tigers football team, Schedule
At the release of the 2015 schedule, Missouri was the only member in the SEC to not complete their entire schedule as the Tigers were still finalizing the game to be played on November 14. One month later after releasing of their schedule, Missouri announced that the game on November 14 would be played against BYU at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.


2015 Missouri Tigers football team, Campus protests and resignation of Tim Wolfe
In the fall of 2015 there were a number of racially charged incidents at the University of Missouri campus. Some students held protests, and some called for the resignation of university system president Tim Wolfe, who they said had not provided a sufficient response to the incidents. On November 7 some members of the Missouri Tigers football team said that they would boycott all football-related activities until Wolfe resigned. Coach Pinkel stated that he supported the players. On November 9 Wolfe resigned as president.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 19–23, 2015. All eight baseball-sponsoring schools in the conference participated in the double-elimination tournament at Wichita State's Eck Stadium in Wichita, Kansas. Missouri State, the winner of the tournament, won the conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The league's eight teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The teams played a two bracket, double-elimination format tournament, with the winner of each bracket then playing a single elimination final.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, popularly referred to as "Arch Madness", was an event held March 5–8, at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. It was part of the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by non-conference strength of schedule, if necessary. The top six seeds received first round byes.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 25th edition of the tournament. It determined the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic berth in the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville hosted the tournament at Ralph Korte Stadium on the SIUE campus.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The third-seeded Drake Bulldogs won the tournament, besting the top-seeded SIUE Cougars in the championship match. It was Drake's second MVC championship.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
The top six teams in the Missouri Valley Conference based on their conference regular season records qualified for the tournament. The SIUE Cougars, Bradley Braves, Drake Bulldogs, Missouri State Bears, Loyola Chicago Ramblers, and Central Arkansas Bears earned berths in the tournament. Top-seeded SIUE and second-seeded Bradley received first round byes.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, All-tournament team
2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament MVP— Kyle Whigham, Drake


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, All-tournament team
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2015 Missouri Valley Conference Softball Tournament
The 2015 Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Softball tournament will be held at Wilkins Stadium on the campus of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas from May 7 through May 9, 2015. The tournament winner will earn the MVC's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. All games will be televised on ESPN3 with R.C. McBrdie and Laura Leonard calling the action.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, nicknamed "Arch Madness", is part of the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season and will be played in St. Charles, Missouri March 12–15, 2015 at the Family Arena. This year marks the eighth consecutive and final year the tournament will be held at Family Arena. The tournament will move to iWireless Center for the 2016 season. This year marks the first year every game will be televised live on ESPN3. The championship took place on Sunday, March 15 at 2:07 PM (central). The tournament's winner received the Missouri Valley Conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Tournament.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season
The 2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season was the 25th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The defending regular season champion was Missouri State, and the defending postseason champion was Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE).


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season
The Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer tournament was hosted by SIUE on Bob Guelker Field at Ralph Korte Stadium in Edwardsville, Illinois on November 11, 13, and 15. The Drake Bulldogs defeated the host team in the final 1–0 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. They then upset 17th ranked Kentucky before falling in the second round to 9th ranked and 12th seeded Creighton.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams
Only All-District players were eligible for the Academic All-America ballot.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, NSCAA 2014-15 College Team Academic Award
The NSCAA annually recognizes college and high school soccer programs that have excelled in the classroom by posting a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Four of the MVC's seven teams were honored.


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 MVC awards
2015 MVC Player of the Year —  Eric Shoendorf, Loyola


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 MVC awards
2015 MVC Defensive Player of the Year —  Eric Shoendorf, Loyola


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 MVC awards
2015 MVC Goalkeeper of the Year —  Tim Dobrowolski, Loyola


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 MVC awards
2015 MVC Freshman of the Year —  Frank Bak, Bradley


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 MVC awards
2015 MVC Coaching Staff of the Year —  SIUE (Mario Sanchez, David Korn, Scott Gyllenborg, Tim Boruff, Billy Berger)


2015 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season, Honors, 2015 MVC awards, 2015 MVC All-Tournament Team
2015 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament MVP— Kyle Whigham, Drake


2015 Mitra Kukar F.C. season, Review and events, Pre–2015
On 11 December 2014, Mitra Kukar announced that Scott Cooper had been appointed as the new manager for the 2015 season. Cooper will start to actively handle Mitra Kukar on January 1, 2015. Cooper will be contracted for two seasons with Mitra Kukar


2015 Mjøndalen IF Fotball season
The 2015 season is Mjøndalen's 105th season, and their first Tippeligaen season for 22 years. It is their 10th season with Vegard Hansen as manager, during which they will compete in the Norwegian Cup as well as the Tippeligaen.


2015 Mjøndalen IF Fotball season, Squad
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2015 Mjøndalen IF Fotball season, Transfers, Winter
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2015 Mjøndalen IF Fotball season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Mjøndalen IF Fotball season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Mjøndalen IF Fotball season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards
The 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards ceremony, organized by CJ E&M through its music channel Mnet, took place on December 2, 2015, at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. The ceremony was the sixth consecutive Mnet Asian Music Awards to be hosted outside of South Korea.


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards
Nominees were announced on October 30, 2015. Leading the nominees and awards was Big Bang with six. By the end of the ceremony the group received four wins alongside Exo, the most received awards of the night.


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Background
This event marked the seventeenth Mnet Asian Music Awards. It was simultaneously broadcast live in Korea, Japan, America, Southeast Asia through various channels as well as via online live streaming.


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Background
The event took place in the same country and the same venue for the third consecutive time. This year MAMA's theme/concept included "...fantastic stages through 'State of TechArt', a concept that combines cutting-edge technology and art."


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Judging criteria
Eligible nominees included songs or albums released from October 26, 2014, until October 30 the next year. Winners will be selected based on six categories including online voting and evaluation from MAMA professional panel.


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Multiple wins
The following artist(s) received two or more wins (excluding the special awards):


2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Winners and nominees, Multiple nominations
The following artist(s) received two or more nominations (excluding the special awards):


2015 Molde FK season
The 2015 season was Molde's eight consecutive year in Tippeligaen, and their 39th season in the top flight of Norwegian football. It was their second season with Tor Ole Skullerud as their manager, and they were the defending champions of both the Tippeligaen and Norwegian Cup. Along with Tippeligaen, the club also competed in the Norwegian Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.


2015 Molde FK season, Season events
Following the clubs elimination from the UEFA Champions League, manager Tor Ole Skullerud was sacked on 6 August, being replaced with Erling Moe on an interim basis. On 21 October 2015, Ole Gunnar Solskjær returned as manager, signing a 3.5 year contract.


2015 Molde FK season, Squad
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2015 Molde FK season, Squad, Players on loan
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2015 Molde FK season, Squad, Reserve squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Molde FK season, Competitions, UEFA Europa League, Group stage
On 28 August 2015, the draw for the group stage was made in Monaco. Molde faced Ajax, Celtic and Fenerbahçe in Group A. Molde topped the group with eleven points, and were drawn against Spanish football side Sevilla FC in the Round of 32.


2015 Moldovan local elections
Local elections were held in Moldova on 14 June 2015, with a runoff for mayors two weeks later.


2015 Moldovan local elections, Legal context
According to Article 119 of the "Electoral Code" of Moldova, local elected representatives are elected "for a four year term, which begins from the date of conducting local general elections". The previous local election was held in 2011.


2015 Mole Valley District Council election
The 2015 Mole Valley District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect approximately one-third of members to Mole Valley District Council in England coinciding with other local elections held simultaneously with a general election which resulted in increased turnout compared to the election four years before. Some two-member wards such as Holmwoods did not hold a local election in this year, being contested in even-numbered years.


2015 Mole Valley District Council election, Results
Conservatives gained four seats, giving the group overall control of the Council, from a previous state of no party group exercising overall control.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round
The 2015 Monaco GP2 Series round was a pair of motor races held on 22 and 23 May 2015 at the Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco as part of the GP2 Series. It was the third round of the 2015 GP2 season and was run in support of the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix. The first race, a 40-lap feature event, was won by ART Grand Prix driver Stoffel Vandoorne who started from fourth position. Alexander Rossi finished second for Racing Engineering, and MP Motorsport driver Sergio Canamasas came in third. Status Grand Prix driver Richie Stanaway won the second event, a 30-lap sprint race, ahead of Trident's Raffaele Marciello and Sergey Sirotkin of the Rapax team.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round
Rossi, who started from pole position, was overtaken by Maricello at the start of the first lap. He had a small lead which was reduced because he was using super soft tyres which had higher degradation levels, allowing Rossi and Vandoorne to draw closer. Rossi gained the lead after Maricello made a pit stop for new tyres. Vandoorne became the new leader after passing Rossi when both drivers made pit stops, and maintained it to win the event. In the second race, Marciello began from pole position but lost the lead to Stanaway as a result of a slow start. The race was processional with few overtakes as Stanaway led the rest of the race to win.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round
Vandoorne's feature race victory was the seventh of his GP2 Series career and the third in a row in 2015. Stanaway's sprint race win was his and Status Grand Prix's first. The results of the round increased Vandoorne's lead in the Drivers' Championship to 44 points over Rossi who moved from third to second. Rio Haryanto fell to third, with Mitch Evans and Alex Lynn fourth and fifth. ART Grand Prix extended their lead over Racing Engineering in the Teams' Championship to 37 points ahead. Third-placed Campos Racing moved further ahead of DAMS, with eight rounds left in the season.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Background
The 2015 Monaco GP2 Series round was the third of eleven scheduled events in 2015. It was held on 22 and 23 May 2015 at the Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco and supported the 2015 Monaco Grand Prix. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the red-banded supersoft and the yellow-banded soft compound dry tyres along with one wet-weather compound to Monaco. The drag reduction system (DRS) had one activation zone for the race: on the main straight linking the final and first turns. A total of 13 teams of 2 participants each for a total of 26 competitors were entered for both races and every driver piloted the Dallara GP2/11 car.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Background
Before the race, ART Grand Prix driver Stoffel Vandoorne led the Drivers' Championship with 86 points, 37 ahead of Rio Haryanto, who in turn, was a further three in front of Alexander Rossi in third. Mitch Evans was fourth on 28 points, and Alex Lynn was three points behind him in fifth place. ART Grand Prix led the Teams' Championship with 93 points; Racing Engineering in second were six points ahead of Campos Racing in third. DAMS were in fourth on 41 points, and Russian Time were fifth on 34 points.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Practice and qualifying
One 45-minute practice session was held on Thursday before the two races. The session was held on a dry race track upon having dried up from earlier rain. Arthur Pic of Campos Racing lapped fastest with a time of 1 minute, 20.556 seconds, ahead of Rossi, Pierre Gasly, Vandoorne, Sergio Canamasas (MP Motorsport), Raffaele Marciello (Trident), Richie Stanaway (Status Grand Prix), André Negrão (Arden International), Haryanto and Norman Nato. Evans caused a brief early red flag period when he stopped his car atop a hill entering Massenet corner, and was unable to set a timed lap. Canamasas went onto the Sainte Dévote run-off area, and Marco Sørensen (Carlin) locked his tyres, causing him hit the barrier at Rascasse corner, and reversed out of the turn. Daniël de Jong stopped his car at the Novelle chicane because of a car mechanical failure.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Practice and qualifying
Friday afternoon's qualifying session ran for 30-minutes. Qualifying was divided into two groups of thirteen cars, with odd numbered vehicles in Group A and even numbered cars in Group B. The drivers' fastest lap times determined the starting order for the first race. The driver who won the pole position was awarded four points that went towards the Drivers' and Teams' Championships. Light rain fell as the session started and some drivers elected to equip the super soft tyres to their cars while other competitors chose to utilise wet-weather compounds.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Practice and qualifying
Rossi clinched the second pole position of his GP2 Series career with a time of 1 minute, 37.019 seconds. The achievement ended Vandoorne's run of consecutive pole positions which started at the 2014 Spa-Francorchamps round. He was joined on the grid's front row by Marciello who had the pole until the latter's lap. Marciello pushed hard and narrowly avoided a loss of car control at Massenet's barriers. Pic qualified third and Vandoorne fourth. Rapax's Sergey Sirotkin improved his lap time late on to start from fifth place. He shared the third row with Julián Leal of Carlin who was ahead of Hilmer Motorsport's Nick Yelloly and Jordan King of Racing Engineering. Canamasas and de Jong were ninth and tenth; de Jong slid into the Mirabeau barrier in the closing minutes of qualifying.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Practice and qualifying
Nobuharu Matsushita was the fastest driver not to qualify in the top ten. Gasly in 12th went deep into Sainte Dévote but did not damage his car. Artem Markelov followed in 13th, ahead of Stanaway whose front wing was damaged in a collision with the Mirabeau barrier, requiring him to enter the pit lane for a replacement nose cone. Negrão placed 15th, with Zoël Amberg in 16th who aquaplaned off the circuit because of an oversteer and struck the exit Tabac corner barrier, removing his right-rear wheel.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Practice and qualifying
The two were followed by Lynn and Evans; the latter overshot the entry of Sainte Dévote but avoided damaging his vehicle. Sørensen's car briefly launched airborne after mounting the kerbs through the swimming pool complex and qualified in 19th position. René Binder and Johnny Cecotto Jr. started 20th and 21st; Cecotto went onto Mirabeau's run-off area but avoided damaging his car. Nathanaël Berthon qualified 22nd and Haryanto incurred a three-place starting penalty for being unable to slow sufficiently during a yellow flag period in the track's second sector and started from 23rd. Nato, Marlon Stöckinger and Robert Vișoiu were the final qualifiers.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races
The first race was held over 140 km (87 mi) or 60 minutes (which ever came first) and the regulations required drivers to make one pit stop. The first ten finishers scored points, with two given to the fastest lap holder. The grid for the second race was determined by the finishing order of the first but with the first eight drivers in reverse order of where they finished. It was run for 100 km (62 mi) or 45 minutes (which ever came first) and, in contrast to the first race, drivers were not required to make pit stops. The top eight finishers earned points towards their respective championships.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
The weather at the start of the race was sunny and warm with an air temperature of 19 °C (66 °F) and a track temperature of 28 °C (82 °F). The race started at 11:10 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00) on 22 May. Matsushita stalled his car on his starting position because of losing oil pressure, and five other drivers stalled soon after, prompting marshals to push them away from the grid.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
A further delay was caused during the wait for the stalled cars when confusion arose over who started where, and it was later decided to perform another formation lap, shortening the race by one lap. Gasly was deemed to have jumped the start and was required to begin from the pit lane. When the race started 20 minutes later after one extra lap was removed from the race distance, Maricello made a brisk getaway to move in front of Rossi around the outside for the lead into Sainte Dévote corner.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
Further down the field, Amberg damaged his front wing and made a pit stop for repairs at the end of the first lap. Pic maintained third position from Vandoorne, while Stanaway moved from 14th to tenth, while King made up three positions over the same distance. Maricello held a 2.1 second lead over Rossi by the end of lap one because he had the super soft tyres equipped on his car.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
Maricello's super soft tyres began to degrade quickly, allowing Rossi and Vandoorne to draw closer over the next two laps. Rossi caught Maricello by the start of the sixth lap but the latter remained on the circuit. King, who was delayed by a long queue of vehicles behind him, was the first driver to make a scheduled pit stop on the same lap and rejoined the track in clear air.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
On lap eight, Matsushita collided heavily with de Jong at the Novelle chicane, causing him to retire and was later penalised with a three-place grid penalty for the sprint race after the stewards judged him to have missed the corner's braking point. De Jong was able to continue. Marciello made his pit stop for new tyres on the next lap, allowing Rossi and Vandoorne to move into first and second and both drivers built an advantage over the rest of the field. Maricello rejoined in eleventh, behind Pic, who made his pit stop one lap later.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
Sørensen was placed into the Casino Hairpin barriers at the apex of the corner by Nato on lap ten, ending his race. Nato incurred a ten-second time penalty, but the safety car was not deployed. Markelov retired from the race in the pit lane with damage to his car after running off the circuit, and drove over a kerb at the exit to the left-hand Louis Chiron corner, launching him airborne into a trackside barrier.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
Rossi led Vandoorne by a second who pushed hard to stay with Rossi. Evans attempted to overtake Yelloly leaving the tunnel at the chicane but Yellowly steered into Evans, who was forced to retire on lap 18. The incident necessitated the activation of the virtual safety car (VSC) to allow track officials to clean the circuit. Rossi and Vandoorne elected to make pit stops for super soft tyres during the VSC with Vandoorne emerging in the lead. Leal moved into third despite making contact with Sirotkin.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
At the race's restart, Vandoorne extended his lead over Rossi by 3.4 seconds in one lap. This was the case until Rossi drove two seconds faster on the following lap and was half a second behind Vandoorne by the 23rd lap. Yelloly set the feature race's fastest time on the same lap, completing a circuit in 1 minute, 22.314 seconds. Vandoorne's and Rossi's releases from their pit stall were investigated by the stewards but chose not to take any further action. A brief second VSC period was deployed when debris was located into Rascasse corner. Canamasas overtook Pic at Sainte Dévote to move into fourth at the beginning of the 28th lap.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
With ten laps remaining, Rossi radioed his team that his front tyres were degrading, with Vandoorne experiencing the same issue. King quickly closed up to Yelloly and overtook him for ninth place on the 32nd lap. Vandoorne held the lead for the rest of the race and achieved his third consecutive GP2 feature race victory of 2015, and his seventh in the series.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Feature race
He finished six seconds ahead of Rossi who slowed, with Leal third on the road, but was issued with a ten-second time penalty upon being judged by the stewards to have been unsafely released from his pit stall. Hence, Canamasas inherited third-place, ahead of Pic and Sirotkin. Leal, Stanaway, Maricello, King and Yelloly rounded out the top-ten points-scoring finishers. Binder, de Jong, Lynn, Gasly and Vișoiu were the next five finishers, with Haryanto, Berthon, Nato, Stöckinger, Cecotto, Negrão and Amberg the final classified finishers.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
The second event began at 16:10 local time on 23 May. The weather at the start of the race were cooler than the previous day's event with dark clouds in the sky and a chance of rain. The air temperature was at 17 °C (63 °F) and the track temperature 23 °C (73 °F). All drivers began on the soft compound tyres. Evans did not start the event because his car stopped on the track's halfway section while driving to his starting position.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
Sørensen stalled in his grid position but was able to start soon after before he was issued with a ten-second time penalty because his mechanics were tending to his car after the 15-second signal was given. Matsushita was required to start from the pit lane because of his collision with de Jong in the feature event. When the race started, pole position starter Maricello made a slow start and was overtaken on the outside by Stanaway into the first corner. Maricello held off Sirotkin, Leal and Canamasas. Rossi damaged the front wing in a collision with the rear of Pic's car but continued. Cecotto squeezed Amberg sideways into a barrier uphill to Massenet corner, forcing the retirement of both cars.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
Shortly afterwards Nato, Haryanto and Binder went three abreast at the Casino hairpin which saw Haryanto squeezed wide at the corner's exit by Nato and was unable to leave the turn, causing a brief usage of the VSC to allow the three cars to be extracted from the circuit by a trackside crane. Nato was able to continue but made a pit stop for repairs and was issued with a ten-second time penalty because he was judged to have caused the collision. The race resumed on the second lap with Stanaway leading Maricello and Sirotkin.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
Stanaway pulled away from the rest of the field. Leal was overtaken for fourth place by Canamasas at Sainte Dévote on the seventh lap's start and narrowly made the corner. Stanaway led the field by three seconds at the race's mid-way point while Maricello was two seconds in front of Sirotkin. Stanaway's team cautioned him about the possibility of tyre degradation if he continued to push hard. Few overtakes took place as the field spread out.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
Rossi and Vandoorne intentionally fell back from the leaders and both drivers started to record fastest lap times in an effort of earning the accolade of two points for setting the event's fastest lap. Vandoorne temporarily claimed the award with a lap time of 1 minute, 21.926 seconds, before Nato gained the accolade on the 30th lap with a time of 1 minute, 21.886 seconds.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
King had battled with Gasly for most of the race and continued to apply pressure on Gasly despite not being able to pass him. He became more frustrated at Gasly's blocking manoeuvres and complained that the latter drove straight across the chicane on lap 24. On the following lap, King gained momentum leaving the tunnel and Gasly was slower than the former. King's front-left tyre made contact with the right-rear of the DAMS car, launching him into the air. He drove onto the escape road at high speed and became the race's fourth retirement with heavy damage to his car.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
King was unhurt. He was transported to the local hospital for a precautionary check-up which found bruising but no serious injuries. Having been behind him for most of the race, Markelov braked later than Binder and passed him on the outside at Sainte Dévote on lap 28, and later passed Berthon for 14th position.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
Stanaway drifted at La Rascasse corner after his car's rear gave way and narrowly avoided a collision against a wall on the race's final lap. He regained control of his car and crossed the start/finish line to win the race. Marciello finished second, two seconds behind the race winner and Sirotkin took third. Canamasas secured fourth, and Leal was fifth. Pic, Rossi and Vandoorne filled the remainder of the points-scoring positions and were all separated by 2.5 seconds. Yelloly and Gasly rounded out the top ten.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Races, Sprint race
Lynn, de Jong, Vișoiu, Markelov and Berthon followed in the next five places, while Binder, Negrão, Stöckinger, Matushita, Sørensen and Nato were the last of the classified finishers. The victory was Stanaway's first in the GP2 Series and the maiden triumph for his team Status Grand Prix following its take over of the former Caterham Racing entry. Stanaway's victory was the best success for a New Zealand driver at Monaco since Denny Hulme won the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Post-round
The top three drivers of both races appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and at a later press conference. After the first race, Vandoorne said his third victory of the season was a special feeling and that he had had to work hard to achieve the win. He revealed that he was happy to have overtaken Rossi in the pit lane having felt he was slightly faster than him before he made his pit stop and praised his mechanics for installing his car's tyres in a fast time period.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Post-round
Rossi admitted that he was disappointed not to win the event as he was aware that it would be difficult to remain in front of those who had the super soft tyres installed on their cars heading into the first corner but was not worried over the issue because he was aware that they would make early pit stops. Canamasas felt "very happy" to finish third and earning another podium position result in Monaco was "an amazing feeling". He said he was aware that he had to overtake Pic as soon as possible because he knew that Pic had more grip than him.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Post-round
Stanaway said that it felt quite "surreal" to win in Monaco and that it was the ideal place to take his first series victory. He stated that GP2 was still new to him and it was a "fantastic feeling" to achieve success in his third race weekend. He hoped that he would improve as the season progressed. His team's managing director David Kennedy stated that it was "the best result that you can have in your maiden GP2 season" and praised Stanaway for demonstrating his speed and talent.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Post-round
Marciello said finishing second would serve to bring positive motivation for his team but that they needed reminding that the result came during the shorter sprint race and hoped they would secure a podium finish in Austria's feature event. Sirotkin said that his sprint race went better than the previous day's longer feature event as he felt that he should have a secured a podium finish in that race. The driver stated that the first podium of his GP2 Series career in Monaco was "a great feeling" but stated he should have been battling for a podium position in the season's first two rounds.


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Post-round
The stewards imposed a three-place grid penalty on King for his role in the collision with Gasly, which he took at the season's next race in Austria. He said that it was a "disappointing" conclusion to the race weekend and he and Gasly discussed the incident and the pair had no issue regarding the matter. Gasly said that his team had hoped for a better result in Monaco but the car's amount of performance was not the reason that his team was unable to score points. He further stated that while he was happy with the behaviour of his vehicle he was unfortunate: "I put my head down and fought my way back, but when you start from so far back on the grid in Monaco scoring points is a hopeless task."


2015 Monaco GP2 Series round, Post-round
Vandoorne's results increased his lead in the Drivers' Championship on 114 points, as Rossi moved to second place, 44 points behind Vandoorne. Haryanto's poor form dropped him to third. Although they scored no points, Evans and Lynn remained in fourth and fifth positions with 28 and 25 points respectively. ART Grand Prix extended its lead over Racing Engineering in the Teams' Championship by two points. Campos Racing remained in third position on 68 points, and moved further away from DAMS in fourth place, while Russian Time were fifth with eight rounds left in the season.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix
The 2015 Monaco Grand Prix, formally known as the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2015, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 24 May 2015 at the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit that runs through the principality of Monaco. It was the sixty-second running of the race as a World Championship event, and seventy-third running overall.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the race with a twenty-point lead over teammate and defending race winner Nico Rosberg in the Drivers' Championship, with Mercedes having a seventy-point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix
World Champion Lewis Hamilton secured his first ever Monaco pole position during Saturday's qualifying. In the race, Nico Rosberg took his third consecutive win at Monaco, second win of the season, and the tenth of his career, while Sebastian Vettel finished second. Championship leader Hamilton, who had led for most of the race, moved from first into third place following a "pit stop misjudgement" during a late safety car period, for which his team, Mercedes, later apologised. The renewed McLaren-Honda partnership scored its first points since Honda's return to the sport. With Rosberg's victory, he was able to reduce his deficit in the World Drivers' Championship to ten points.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background
Ahead of the race weekend, Mercedes announced they had extended their contract with world champion Lewis Hamilton for three additional years, keeping him at the team until the end of the 2018 season.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background
Revisions to the Tabac corner at the harbour section of the race track meant that the drivers now entered the turn slightly earlier, shortening the track by 3 metres (9.8 ft) compared to previous years, and making the corner slightly tighter and slower. The corner had seen a race-stopping accident involving Pastor Maldonado and Max Chilton in 2013, leading to the changes being made. This resulted in the circuit being officially classified as a new layout.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background
The barrier on the right of the swimming pool chicane was moved back, with new kerbs, to allow for a better view of the corner. Much of the track was resurfaced before the event. As in Australia and Singapore, the pit lane speed limit for the duration of the event was reduced to 60 km/h (37 mph), instead of the standard 80 km/h (50 mph), due to the confined nature of the circuit. The race schedule for the weekend was different in Monaco compared to the other races on the calendar. The first two free practice sessions were held on Thursday instead of Friday.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Background
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its yellow-marked soft compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-marked super-soft compound tyre as the more elastic "option" tyre, just as they did the previous three seasons. It was the first time in the 2015 season that the super-soft compound would be used at a race weekend.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
As per the regulations for 2015, three practice sessions were held, two one and a half-hour sessions on Thursday and another one-hour session on Saturday morning. After a thunderstorm on Wednesday night, the first of the two free practice sessions held on Thursday morning, started with every driver setting their installation laps on intermediate tyres. The track soon dried up, and the cars changed to slick tyres. Nico Rosberg had an early shunt when he clipped his front wing exiting the Tabac corner though he did not sustain considerable damage to his car.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
The two Mercedes drivers swapped places at the top of the time sheets for most of the session, until late improvements pushed Rosberg down the order to finish ninth, more than a second off his team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Rookie Max Verstappen surprised the paddock by finishing second, two-tenths of a second down on Hamilton. The Renault-powered cars all finished within the top seven, while the Williams team ended the session in tenth and seventeenth, owing to the car not being well suited for wet and low-temperature conditions.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
The second session on Thursday afternoon saw considerably less running than the first. A red flag was shown ten minutes into practice after Roberto Merhi crashed on the exit of the tunnel. During the stoppage, rain began to fall, keeping most drivers in the garage when practice was restarted. It was not until ten minutes from the end of the session that the drivers took to the track again, but under damp conditions they managed times that were slower than the pace set at the beginning.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
Lewis Hamilton finished the session fastest, more than seven-tenths of a second in front of his teammate. Toro Rosso confirmed their high pace with Carlos Sainz Jr. and Max Verstappen in sixth and seventh respectively, while McLaren proved they might challenge for points as predicted, with Fernando Alonso in eighth place.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Free practice
The third practice on Saturday morning was interrupted midway through the session when Kimi Räikkönen crashed his Ferrari at Sainte Dévote. His teammate Sebastian Vettel set the fastest lap during the session, ahead of the Mercedes' of Rosberg and Hamilton. Hamilton reported problems with his car, believed by his race engineer to be caused by over-pressured tyres. The two Renault-powered teams, Red Bull and Toro Rosso, confirmed their strong pace by placing all four cars in the top ten.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Qualifying consisted of three parts, 18, 15 and 12 minutes in length respectively, with five drivers eliminated from competing after each of the first two sessions. The first part (Q1) saw a "a surprise casualty" when Valtteri Bottas failed to cross the line for his final lap in time, leaving him seventeenth on the grid. The two Manor Marussia drivers finished last, as they had in every qualifying session they participated in up to that point during the 2015 season. Joining them on the sidelines were the two Sauber cars of Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson, split by Bottas.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
While McLaren once again succeeded in advancing both cars into Q2, Fernando Alonso's car stopped in the first corner due to an electrical fault at the start of the second session, and he took no further part in qualifying. Teammate Jenson Button was more successful, missing out on Q3 when his second fast lap was interrupted by Nico Rosberg going off at Sainte Dévote. The second Williams of Felipe Massa completed a problematic Saturday for the team, claiming only 14th on the grid, while Nico Hülkenberg and Romain Grosjean also did not make it into Q3.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
The third part of qualifying, contested by the top ten drivers, started with drops of rain falling, meaning all drivers took to the track quickly. Sergio Pérez, who made his first Q3 appearance of the 2015 season, had only one set of super-soft tyres left and finished seventh. Lewis Hamilton took an early lead with his first run and teammate Nico Rosberg was denied a chance to challenge him for pole position when he made a mistake in turn one during his second fast lap. The two Red Bull drivers separated the two Ferrari cars, leaving Kimi Räikkönen with another disappointing qualifying performance down in sixth. It was the first pole position for Hamilton in Monaco, who called it "incredibly special".


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Carlos Sainz Jr., who had qualified in eighth position, was adjudged to have missed a call to go to the weigh bridge during the first part of qualifying. Following the session, he was given a penalty which required him to start the race from the pit lane.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
At the start of the race Hamilton, Rosberg and Vettel maintained their grid positions into the first corner, while Daniil Kvyat managed to overtake team-mate Daniel Ricciardo for fourth. Trying to get past Nico Hülkenberg on the inside of turn five, Fernando Alonso made contact with Hülkenberg, who hit the wall but was able to continue, though at the back of the field. Alonso was reprimanded with a five-second penalty to serve at his first pit stop. Meanwhile, Felipe Massa made contact with Pastor Maldonado, damaging his front wing. Massa came into the pit lane for a new wing and equipped the harder tyre compound. Maldonado suffered from brake problems in the early laps, eventually retiring on lap seven.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
By lap ten, Hamilton had built a three-second lead over his teammate Rosberg, who was an additional 1.7 seconds ahead of Vettel. While some drivers came into the pit lane for their first regular stop as early as lap 13, the top runners stayed out until lap 37, when Vettel was the first to come in, followed by Rosberg and Hamilton one lap later respectively. Following the stops, Hamilton led Rosberg by seven seconds.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
Max Verstappen dropped down the order when a problem at the rear of the car caused him to be stationary for 31 seconds during his stop on lap 30. Fernando Alonso, who had been running in ninth place, retired from the race with a gearbox failure on lap 43. By lap 45, Hamilton had extended his lead to ten seconds, while Rosberg remained two seconds ahead of Sebastian Vettel.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
By lap 59, Verstappen on the fast super-soft tyres was chasing Lotus driver Romain Grosjean for tenth position, with Verstappen making several attempts to pass over the following laps. At the beginning of lap 64, coming into turn one, Verstappen crashed into the back of the Lotus, sending him flying at 30g into the barriers. While he was able to walk away from the accident without injuries, a "Virtual Safety Car" condition was called by the race director to allow marshals to safely recover the damaged car.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
This was the first time a Virtual Safety Car had been used in Formula One. Shortly thereafter, the regular safety car was sent out on track. Lewis Hamilton, who had been leading the race by almost twenty seconds, was pitted apparently with the intention of returning him to the track ahead of his pursuers. The Mercedes pitwall crew, however, miscalculated the gap allowing Rosberg to take the lead while Hamilton emerged from the pit exit lane marginally behind Vettel who had stayed out under the safety car behind Rosberg.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
With the safety car coming into the pit lane on lap 70 of 78, Rosberg retained the lead unchallenged going on to win the Monaco Grand Prix for a third consecutive time whereas Hamilton finished third, unable to overtake Vettel for second position. Daniel Ricciardo had also made a pit stop under the safety car, and on fresh tyres he was able to pass Kimi Räikkönen in controversial circumstances. His teammate Kvyat then let him past in order to give him the chance to try and pass third-placed Hamilton.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
When Ricciardo was unable to overtake, he handed fourth place back to Kvyat. Ricciardo set the fastest lap of the race in the process. Jenson Button finished eighth, scoring four championship points for himself and the McLaren team, the first points for the renewed McLaren-Honda partnership since their return at the start of the 2015 season.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
Following the race, Mercedes apologised to Hamilton for the pit call, which commentators such as F1Fanatic's Keith Collantine, Formula One correspondent for The Guardian Paul Weaver, and former Formula One driver David Coulthard felt cost him the victory. Team boss Toto Wolff told the press: "We got our numbers wrong. We thought we had the gap for Lewis to take fresh tyres and come back out in the lead behind the safety car, ahead of Nico and covering off any risk of another competitor taking fresh tyres. But the calculation was incorrect and he came out in third place."


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
Indeed, more than half of the teams made a pit stop at least one car when the safety car was deployed, just as Hamilton did. However, he as race leader caught up with the safety car quicker and lost a considerably larger amount of time on his way into the pit lane, leading to him coming out behind Rosberg and Vettel.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
During the post-race press conference, Hamilton revealed the decision to pit him was made after he had voiced concern over the heat in his tyres, being under the false impression that his rivals behind had already made a pit stop for the softer compound. When asked whether he would have full confidence in the team's strategy decisions in the future, he answered "yes". At the podium interviews, conducted by Martin Brundle, Rosberg admitted his victory "was just a lot of luck" and added that "Lewis drove brilliantly and he would have also deserved the win for sure". Rosberg became the fourth driver overall, and the first since Ayrton Senna, to win the Monaco Grand Prix three times in a row.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
Following the accident with Romain Grosjean, the race stewards handed Max Verstappen a five-place grid penalty for the next race, the Canadian Grand Prix. For the first time in his Formula One career, Verstappen also had two penalty points added to his FIA Super Licence. Verstappen was criticised for his actions by fellow driver Felipe Massa, who said that he deserved the penalty. Verstappen reacted by insisting that he had done nothing wrong, instead pointing to Massa's own accident at the 2014 Canadian Grand Prix, where Massa had crashed into the back of Sergio Pérez in similar fashion. Immediately following the race, Verstappen had accused Grosjean of "brake-testing" him, a claim denied by Grosjean, who insisted that he had braked even later than the lap before.


2015 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
The race results meant that Nico Rosberg moved closer towards his teammate's championship lead, now ten points behind Hamilton. Sebastian Vettel followed another 18 points behind. Meanwhile, in the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes extended their lead over Ferrari to 84 points.


2015 Monaco ePrix
The 2015 Monaco ePrix was a Formula E motor race held on 9 May 2015 on the Circuit de Monaco, a street circuit in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the seventh championship race of the single-seater, electrically powered racing car series' inaugural season. The race was won by Sébastien Buemi, who became the first multiple race winner in the series.


2015 Monaco ePrix, Report, Background
For the second race in a row, the driver lineup was exactly the same as for the previous race. Fanboost was awarded to Nelson Piquet, Jr., Jean-Éric Vergne and Salvador Durán.


2015 Monaghan Senior Football Championship
The 2015 Monaghan Senior Football Championship is the 109th edition of the Monaghan GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Monaghan, Ireland. The tournament consists of 10 teams, with the winner going on to represent Monaghan in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship comprises a knock-out format with a back door system for the first two rounds.


2015 Monaghan Senior Football Championship
Clontibret O'Neills were the defending champions after they defeated Scotstown in the previous years final, but they lost their crown to Monaghan Harps at the semi-final stage.


2015 Monaghan Senior Football Championship
This was Inniskeen Grattans' return to the senior grade after a 3-year absence since being relegated in 2011 and they were relegated back to the I.F.C. after just one year in the senior grade, along with Donaghmoyne Fontenoys who also spent just one year in the top flight.


2015 Monaghan Senior Football Championship
Scotstown defeated Monaghan harps to claim their 16th S.F.C. title with a 2-12 to 0-9 win in St. Tiernach's Park in Clones. Hence, they reclaimed their crown for the first time since 2013.


2015 Monaghan Senior Football Championship, Team changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2014 championship season.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision
On July 7, 2015, an F-16 fighter jet operated by the United States Air Force collided in-flight with a private Cessna 150 single-engine light aircraft over Moncks Corner, South Carolina, United States. Both occupants of the Cessna were killed; the pilot of the F-16 ejected safely.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision
The subsequent investigation found that the local Air Traffic Control unit had failed to ensure adequate separation between the two aircraft.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision, Collision
At about 11:00 AM on July 7, 2015, the F-16 and Cessna 150 collided over Moncks Corner, South Carolina, about 30 miles (48 km) north of Charleston. Witnesses state that the Cessna was climbing when the F-16 hit it broadside. The Cessna (N3601V) was climbing out of the MKS airport under visual flight rules, not in communication with FAA Air Traffic Control. Death 41 (the F-16)  was on an ATC assigned heading of 260 degrees and issued a descent to maintain 1600' for an ILS approach to Runway15 at KCHS.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision, Collision
At 1100:16, the CHS ATC approach controller issued a traffic advisory advising the F-16 pilot of "traffic 12 o'clock, 2 miles, opposite direction, 1,200 [ft altitude] indicated, type unknown." At 1100:24, the F-16 pilot responded that he was "looking" for the traffic. At 1100:26, the controller advised the F-16 pilot, "turn left heading 180 if you don't have that traffic in sight." At 1100:30, the pilot asked, "confirm 2 miles?" At 1100:33, the controller stated, "if you don't have that traffic in sight turn left heading 180 immediately." As the controller was stating the instruction and over the next 18 seconds, the radar-derived ground track of the F-16 began turning southerly toward the designated heading.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision, Collision
At 1100:49, the radar target of the F-16 was 1/2 nm northeast of the Cessna, at an altitude of 1,500 ft, and was on an approximate track of 215°. At that time, the Cessna reported an altitude of 1,400 ft and was established on an approximate ground track of 110°. The two aircraft collided at an approximate altitude of 1450 ft.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision, Collision
The F-16 flew for a further three minutes before the pilot transmitted a mayday call. He then ejected safely. Both aircraft crashed in Lewisfield Plantation. Both occupants of  the Cessna 150 were killed. The pilot of the F-16 was on an instrument training mission. Its destination was Joint Base Charleston. The Cessna was reported to be on a flight from Berkeley County Airport to Myrtle Beach.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision, Aircraft
Of the two aircraft involved, the first one was a General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon, serial number 96-0085. It was based at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, and was operated by the 20th Fighter Wing of the United States Air Force. The second one was a privately-owned Cessna 150M light aircraft, registration N3601V.


2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision, Investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board conducted the investigation into the accident. The cause of the collision was found to be Air Traffic Control errors in failing to provide an appropriate conflict resolution between the two aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration also opened an investigation.


2015 Monegasque municipal elections
The 2015 Monegasque municipal elections were held on 15 March to elect the 15 members of the Communal Council of Monaco.


2015 Monegasque municipal elections, Electoral system
Monegasque citizens over 18 are entitled to vote. The 15 councillors were elected for a four-year period in a single multi-member constituency using plurality-at-large voting with a two-round system. A majority of the votes was required to be elected. The second round would have been held one week after the first round. The Mayor of Monaco was elected by the councillors after the election. Candidates were required to be at least 21 years old and to have the Monegasque nationality for at least 5 years.


2015 Mongolian 1st League
The 2015 Mongolian 1st League also known as the Khurkhree National 1st League is the 1st tournament of the League.


2015 Mongolian First League
2015 Mongolian First League (often referred to as the 2015 Mongolian 1st League) was the first edition of Mongolian First League equivalent to the second level in the Mongolia league hierarchy.


2015 Mongolian First League, Promoted Teams
With 8 wins and 1 draw Continental  FC and Khangarid City  finished the competition tied. Continental were denied promotion for failing to meet coaching requirements. As a result, the Khangarid City and Bayangol FC teams were promoted to Mongolian Premier League next season.


2015 Mongolian First League, Promoted Teams
The Continental FC team ended up ending its activities. And Khangarid City sold their Premier League license 2016 to Ulaanbaatar City and competed in 2016 as Beşiktaş.


2015 Mongolian Premier League
The 2015 Mongolian Premier League also known as the Khurkhree National Top League is the 47th edition of the tournament. Two new teams entered the competition, Deren and Soyombiin Barsuud to increase the number of teams to nine. The season started on 16 May 2015 and was ended on 26 September.


2015 Mongolian Premier League, Khurkhree National Premier League
The competition is to be known as the Khurkhree National Premier League for sponsorship reasons, after the Mongolian Football Federation signed a MNT 400 million sponsorship deal with Arvain Undes, a Mongolian company that produces the beer, Khurkhree. As well as the new sponsorship deal, matches will also be broadcast on NTV television and online, with the teams competing for a share of a MNT 100 million prize fund.


2015 Monmouth Hawks football team
The 2015 Monmouth Hawks football team represented Monmouth University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a members of Big South Conference. They were led by 23rd-year head coach Kevin Callahan and played their home games at Kessler Field. Monmouth finished the season 5–6 overall and 3–3 in Big South play to tie for third place.


2015 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 2015 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Grizzlies were led by first-year coach Bob Stitt who took over after 15 years coaching the NCAA Division II Colorado Mines Orediggers. The Grizzlies played their home games on campus at Washington–Grizzly Stadium. Montana participated as a member of the Big Sky Conference, of which they are a charter member. They finished the season 8–5, 6–2 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated South Dakota State in the first round before losing in the second round to North Dakota State.


2015 Montana Grizzlies football team, Schedule
Despite also being a member of the Big Sky Conference, the game with Cal Poly on September 5 is considered a non-conference game.


2015 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 2015 Montana State Bobcats football team represented Montana State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bobcats were led by ninth year head coach Rob Ash and played their home games at Bobcat Stadium. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 5–6, 3–5 in Big Sky play to finish in a three way tie for eighth place.


2015 Montana State Bobcats football team
On November 24, head coach Rob Ash was fired. He finished at Montana State with a nine-year record of 70–38.


2015 Montana State Bobcats football team, Schedule
Despite also being a member of the Big Sky Conference, the game with Eastern Washington on September 19 is considered a non conference game.


2015 Monte Carlo Rally
The 2015 Monte Carlo Rally (formally known as the 83ème Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 22 and 25 January 2015. It marked the eighty-third running of the Monte Carlo Rally, and was the first round of the 2015 World Rally Championship, WRC-2, WRC-3, Junior World Rally Championship and FIA R-GT Cup seasons.


2015 Monte Carlo Rally
Defending World Champion Sébastien Ogier started the season with a win in Monte Carlo, his second consecutive in the principality and the 25th of his WRC career. Returning nine-time World Champion Sébastien Loeb was the early leader of the rally, losing first position to Ogier on the seventh stage after a spin while negotiating a hairpin bend. On the next stage, Loeb hit a rock and lost a total of six minutes, before retiring in the following liaison section. This gave Ogier a lead of almost two minutes over Volkswagen team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala.


2015 Monte Carlo Rally
Despite being unable to monitor his rivals' split times during the stages under new rules, Ogier blended a controlled pace with safe tyre choices through the final two days to seal the victory. Latvala finished second, also taking one power stage point, with Andreas Mikkelsen completing a one-two-three for Volkswagen Motorsport. Citroën's Mads Østberg finished the event in fourth position. Hyundai Motorsport duo Thierry Neuville and Dani Sordo finished in fifth and sixth, split by 0.8 seconds. M-Sport's Elfyn Evans finished seventh, having dropped time after he damaged his car's rear suspension against a wall. Evans finished ahead of Loeb, who rejoined under rally-2 rules and won two power stage points. The top ten was completed by Martin Prokop and Kris Meeke, who won the power stage to take three additional points.


2015 Monte Carlo Rally
In the support classes, Stéphane Lefebvre won WRC-2 in 12th position overall, Quentin Gilbert finished as the best WRC-3/JWRC runner in 22nd place, just ahead of the FIA R-GT Cup winner François Delecour.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters
The 2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters was a tennis tournament for male professional players, played from 12 April through 19 April 2015, on outdoor clay courts. It was the 109th edition of the annual Monte Carlo Masters tournament, which was sponsored by Rolex for the seventh time. It took place at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (though billed as Monte Carlo, Monaco).


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Points and prize money, Points distribution
Because the Monte Carlo Masters is the non-mandatory Masters 1000 event, special rules regarding points distribution are in place. The Monte Carlo Masters counts as one of a player's 500 level tournaments, while distributing Masters 1000 points.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Points and prize money, Prize money
The total prize money pot for the 2015 competition is €3,288,530, distributed throughout both competitions.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players used a protected ranking to gain entry into the main draw:


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Doubles
Bob and Mike Bryan successfully defended their title by defeating Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini in the final, 7–6(7–3), 6–1.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Singles
Novak Djokovic defeated Tomáš Berdych in the final, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3, to win the Singles title at the 2015 Monte-Carlo Masters. It was his second Monte-Carlo Masters title, and he became the first man to win the first three ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles of the season.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Singles
Stan Wawrinka was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Grigor Dimitrov.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2015 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2015 Monterrey Challenger
The 2015 Monterrey Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Monterrey, Mexico from 26 to 31 of October 2015.


2015 Monterrey Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Monterrey Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player entered the singles main draw with a protected ranking:


2015 Monterrey Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following player entered the main draw as an alternate:


2015 Monterrey Challenger – Doubles
Thiemo de Bakker and Mark Vervoort won the title, by beating Paolo Lorenzi and Fernando Romboli by a walkover.


2015 Monterrey Challenger – Singles
Thiemo de Bakker won the title, beating top seed Víctor Estrella Burgos 7–6(7–1), 4–6, 6–3


2015 Monterrey Open
The 2015 Monterrey Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the Monterrey Open and an International tournament on the 2015 WTA Tour. It took place at the Club Sonoma in Monterrey, Mexico, from 2 to 8 March 2015.


2015 Monterrey Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
1Qualifiers prize money is also the Round of 32 prize money. *per team


2015 Monterrey Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2015 Monterrey Open – Doubles
Darija Jurak and Megan Moulton-Levy were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.


2015 Monterrey Open – Singles
Ana Ivanovic was the defending champion, but lost to Caroline Garcia in the semifinals.


2015 Monterrey Open – Singles
Timea Bacsinszky won her second title of the year, defeating Garcia in the final, 4–6, 6–2, 6–4.


2015 Montgomery mayoral election
The 2015 Montgomery mayoral election took place on August 25, 2015, to elect the Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama.


2015 Montgomery mayoral election
The election was officially nonpartisan, with all candidates that ran together, regardless of party. Had no candidate received a majority of the vote, a runoff election would have been held between the top two candidates.


2015 Montgomery mayoral election
Incumbent Republican Mayor Todd Strange won re-election to a second full term in office without a runoff on August 25, 2015.


2015 Montreal Alouettes season
The 2015 Montreal Alouettes season was the 49th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 61st overall. The Alouettes finished with a 6–12 record and missed the playoffs for the first time since the franchise's re-activation in 1996. The team's training camp began May 27 with veterans reporting on May 31 at Coulter Field at the campus of Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.


2015 Montreal Alouettes season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2015 CFL Draft took place on May 12, 2015. The Alouettes had nine selections in the seven-round draft, including three within the first 13 picks. They acquired a first and third-round pick from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for Ryan Bomben. They also swapped their original third-round pick for Calgary's fourth-round pick in their acquisition of Larry Taylor.


2015 Montreal Alouettes season, Preseason
Due to the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup taking place in June at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa, the Redblacks hosted the Alouettes for their home pre-season game at Telus Stadium in Quebec City, Quebec on the campus of the Université Laval. It was the second game that the Alouettes played in Quebec City, with the first being in 2003.


2015 Montreal Alouettes season, Team, Roster
Italics indicate International players updated 2015-11-07 • 46 Active, 14 Injured, 13 Six-Game Injured,4 Practice, 4 Suspended


2015 Montreal Impact season
The 2015 Montreal Impact season was the club's 22nd season of existence, and their fourth in Major League Soccer, the top tier of the Canadian soccer pyramid. They advanced to the conference semifinals, where they lost to the Columbus Crew.


2015 Montreal Impact season
Outside of MLS regular season play, the club participated in the 2015 Canadian Championship, as well as the knockout stages of the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League.


2015 Montreal Impact season, International caps
Players called for senior international duty during the 2015 season while under contract with the Montreal Impact.


2015 Montreal Impact season, Major League Soccer, Results summary
Last updated: October 25, 2015Source: 2015 Major League Soccer seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  D = Matches drawn;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2015 Montreal Impact season, CONCACAF Champions League
The 2015 CONCACAF Champions League Finals was the final of the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League, the 7th edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current format, and overall the 50th edition of the premium football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.


2015 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Squad and statistics, Top Scorers
Updated to match played November 9, 2015Source: Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.


2015 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Squad and statistics, Top assists
Updated to match played November 9, 2015Source: Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.


2015 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Squad and statistics, Top minutes played
Updated to match played November 9, 2015Source: Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.


2015 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Squad and statistics, Goals against average
Updated to match played November 9, 2015Source: Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.


2015 Montreal Impact season, Player information, International roster slots
Montreal has ten MLS International Roster Slots for use in the 2015 season. Each club in Major League Soccer is allocated eight international roster spots and Montreal acquired the extra slots in trades with D.C. United and New York Red Bulls.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters
The 2015 Montreux Volley Masters is a women's volleyball competition set in Montreux, Switzerland between May 26 – 31, 2015. Turkey won the tournament for the first time by winning 3-2 to Japan in the championship match. Japanese Yuki Ishii was selected Most Valuable Player.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads
This article shows the rosters of all participating teams at the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters in Switzerland.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool A, Netherlands
The following is the Dutch roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool A, Russia
The following is the Russian roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool A, China
The following is the Chinese roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool A, Dominican Republic
The following is the Dominican roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool B, Japan
The following is the Japanese roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool B, Turkey
The following is the Turkish roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool B, Germany
The following is the German roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Montreux Volley Masters squads, Pool B, Italy
The following is the Italian roster in the 2015 Montreux Volley Masters.


2015 Morehead State Eagles football team
The 2015 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 7–4, 6–2 in PFL play to finish in third place.


2015 Morelos Open
The 2015 Morelos Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition  was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour, offering prize money of $75,000 on 16–22 February 2015.


2015 Morelos Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Morelos Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players gained entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:


2015 Morelos Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players used special exempt to gain entry into the singles main draw:


2015 Morelos Open – Doubles
Andrej Martin and Gerald Melzer were the defending champions, but Martin chose not to participate. Melzer partnered with Yannick Mertens instead and lost in the first round.


2015 Morelos Open – Doubles
Ruben Gonzales and Darren Walsh won the title, defeating Emilio Gómez and Roberto Maytín in the final, 4–6, 6–3, [12–10].


2015 Morelos Open – Singles
Gerald Melzer was the defending champion, but lost to Víctor Estrella Burgos in the semifinals. Estrella Burgos would go on to win the title defeating Damir Džumhur 7–5, 6–4 in the final.


2015 Morgan State Bears football team
The 2015 Morgan State Bears football team represented Morgan State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Lee Hull and played their home games at Hughes Stadium. Morgan State was a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference(MEAC). They finished the season 4–6, 4–4 in MEAC play to finish in a tie for sixth place.


2015 Morgan State Bears football team
On February 8, 2016, Hull resigned to become the wide receivers coach for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He finished at Morgan State with a two year record of 12–12.


2015 Morgan State Bears football team, Schedule
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2015 Moroccan protest movement
The 2015 Moroccan protests was a unprecedented wave of popular demonstrations and peaceful protests by students, teachers, and public workers against utility prices and low wages, Violence against women, and economic hardships. In Casablanca, mass demonstrations emerged on 29 October, and quickly gained momentum in other cities.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca
The 2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Casablanca, Morocco between 12 January and 17 January 2015.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II
The 2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Casablanca, Morocco between 12 and 17 October 2015.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II – Doubles
This was the first edition of the tournament, Laurynas Grigelis and Mohamed Safwat won the title defeating Thiemo de Bakker and Stephan Fransen in the final 6–4, 6–3.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca II – Singles
This was the first edition of the tournament, Damir Džumhur won the title defeating Daniel Muñoz de la Nava in the final


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca – Doubles
Claudio Grassi and Riccardo Ghedin were the defending champions, having won the title in 2013, but they lost in the first round to Laurynas Grigelis and Adrian Ungur, who eventually won the tournament, defeating Flavio Cipolla and Alessandro Motti in the final, 3–6, 6–2, [10–5].


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca – Singles
Dominic Thiem was the defending champion, having won the previous tournament in 2013, but concentrating on the ATP tour he did not participate this year.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Casablanca – Singles
Lamine Ouahab won the title, defeating Javier Martí in the final.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra
The 2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kenitra, Morocco between 14 and 20 September.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra – Doubles
Dino Marcan and Antonio Šančić were the defending champions, but decided not to defend their title.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra – Singles
Daniel Gimeno-Traver was the defending champion, but chose not to defend his title.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes
The 2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Meknes, Morocco between 7 and 13 September 2015.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes – Doubles
Hans Podlipnik and Stefano Travaglia are the defending champions, but chose not to participate.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes – Singles
Kimmer Coppejans was the defending champion, but chose not to defend his title.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia
The 2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2015 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mohammedia, Morocco between 5 and 10 October 2015.


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia – Doubles
Fabiano de Paula and Mohamed Safwat are the defending champions, but decided not to defend their title.


2015 Mosconi Cup
The 2015 PartyPoker.net Mosconi Cup, the 22nd edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing Europe and the United States, took place 7–10 December 2015 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2015 Mosconi Cup
Team Europe retained the Mosconi Cup by defeating Team USA 11–7.


2015 Moscow Sevens
The 2015 Moscow Sevens was the opening tournament of the 2015 Sevens Grand Prix Series. It was held over the weekend of 6–7 June 2015.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on 9 May 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in the Second World War at the Eastern Front, on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies in Berlin, at midnight of 9 May 1945 (Russian time). President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin delivered his twelfth holiday address to the nation on this day, right after the parade inspection that was presided by Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoygu.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
Being a landmark jubilee parade honoring the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in the European continent, the 2015 parade was the largest and most lavish held in Russian history. Col. Gen. Oleg Salyukov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, was the 2015 commander. In addition to troops of the Russian Federation, 1,300 troops from 10 foreign countries were also on parade, including contingents from China, India, Serbia, and Mongolia, all four countries making their first appearance at a Russian Victory Day parade.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
Following the official parade, over 500,000 Russians and foreign attendees marched through central Moscow in commemoration of those who perished and those who survived World War II. The Moscow leg of this parade, which is an annual Victory Day tradition called the March of the Immortal Regiment and observed in numerous other Russian cities and in several other countries, was led by President Putin whose father served during the war. It is estimated that up to 12 million Russians participated nationwide in the 2015 March of the Immortal Regiment.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
In all, around 30 international leaders attended the parade, including heads of UNESCO and the Council of Europe, with invitations having been sent to 68 heads of state. The UK was represented by the grandson of World War II leader British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
A number of EU countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary and Greece came under US and/or EU pressure not to attend the Victory Day Parade due to the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the subsequent War in Donbass, resulting in Czech President Miloš Zeman subsequently banning the US ambassador from functions at Prague Castle. A number of World War II veterans from the US and UK were present at the victory day celebrations as private attendees.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
The following countries opted not to participate in this year's parade in Moscow, although most sent their respective ambassadors as part of the diplomatic corps: Australia, Belarus (which held its own victory day celebrations on the same day), Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United States, Finland, Croatia, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia, Japan.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
The 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the subsequent War in Donbass has caused a number of nations that fought in the war, especially those that participated in the parade of 2010, to not participate in the 2015 celebrations, including Germany, whose chancellor Angela Merkel instead visited Moscow on 10 May to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and meet with Vladimir Putin. Three days after the Victory Day parade, US secretary of state John Kerry laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Sochi with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
Aside from the return of the T-34 tank and the SU-100 self-propelled gun, and the usual vehicles and planes in the mobile column and the flypast, making their parade debut this year were the following:


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
The Nakhimov Higher Naval Institute and the Chemical Defense and Control Military Academy both made their return appearances in a Red Square parade after years of absences, the former since 1985 and the latter since 2006, while the Pacific Naval Institute will be making its debut appearance this year, all in the march past segment made up of 16,000 servicemen, where they will be joined by a company-sized formation from the Ground Forces Military Institute from the Kazakh Ground Forces, part of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and several military contingents from other Commonwealth of Independent States member countries, including the Armenian Army and the Azerbaijani Land Forces, all returning to the parade after a 5-year break, alongside first time parade participants from the armed forces of Serbia, China, Mongolia, and India. The BMD-4 infantry fighting vehicle will make its return to the mobile column after a 6-year break, together with the joint flight of the Russian aerobatics teams Russian Knights and Strizhi after a one-year absence from the parade.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
Also, several military vehicles that drove through the Red Square in the 1945 Victory Parade are being readied for their drivepast in other major Russian cities.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
As per tradition, 26 other Russian major cities (Sevastopol and Kerch in the disputed Crimea included) held their parades, and joint civil-military parades were hosted by 50 other towns and cities nationwide, plus 5 fleet reviews in Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad (Baltic Fleet), Sevastopol (Black Sea), Severnomorsk (Northern) and Vladivostok (Pacific). Some of the big parades featured an air fly past for the first time.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
Victory Day parades and celebrations were also held in the following CIS member nations:


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic of Novorossiya, in the midst of the fighting in the Donbass, held on 9 May in Donetsk the first public Victory Day parade of the so-called "United Armed Forces of Novorossiya" (military branch of the separatist organisation) together with the federal level Ministries of Internal Affairs and Emergency Situations. The situation was the same in the other non-recognised entity within Ukraine, Luhansk People's Republic, where on 9 May Luhansk's first ever Victory Day parade was held, with participation of the United Armed Forces of Novorossiya and the federal MVD and EMERCOM units of the entity.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic celebrated the day with a parade and other activities in Stepanakert on 9 May, also celebrating the 23rd anniversary of the Capture of Shusha during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Due to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and the fact that immediately after the parade formation o Azerbaijan was the contingent from Armenia, a photograph of the parade on the website of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan photoshoped the Flag of Armenia from the official parade picture.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
Beginning in November/December 2014, preparations for the parade were well attended at the unit level. Individual unit practices were held in the various military installations for all the participating units, and by March 2015, the air flypast column began its individual practice flying runs.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
Also rehearsing for the parade are the massed military bands of the Armed Forces, the MVD, EMERCOM and the Moscow Garrison, all to be conducted for the 13th straight year by Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov, the Senior Director of Music of the Bands Service of the Russian Armed Forces since 2002, with a combined number of more than a thousand military bandsmen, and the world-famous Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College "Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov", under the leadership of Colonel Alexander Gerasimov, the long-time college director, which has always (with a brief break from 2009 to 2011) had the privilege of leading the parade.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
The parade practice runs officially commenced in the practice field at Alabino, Moscow Oblast, in April 2015, and will last until the middle of April when the runs on Red Square itself will start, ending with a final general combined practice run of the parade in early May. Before the first parade dry run, there was the first practice drivepast of the estimated 200 mobile column vehicles in attendance this year, that first drivepast was held on 27 March.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
The first parade practice run on 3 April 2015 kicked off officially the preparation for the big parade, despite the snowy weather that day. Joining the first run-through rehearsal (for the march past segment and the mobile column only) was the first ever military women's contingent to march on Red Square for the very first time, composed of girl Cadet Corps students coming from the Moscow National Pensions School. This was followed by the first test run of the flypast column in the Alabino training grounds on 9 April, with the more than 150 aircraft taking part in that first run-through of the flypast segment.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
The  15 2 April parade practice run witnessed the first practice march of a Cossacks contingent that on 9 May will be the first ever unit of its kind to march on the steps of Red Square after so many years. The unit marching for this year comes from the ranks of the Kuban Cossacks, which marched past Red Square in the Victory Parade of 1945 represented by the 4th Guards Cossack Cavalry Regiment. The 2nd dry run for the flypast was done on 21 April, and the final run on the Alabino grounds on 22 April.


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
The first late night practice run started on 29 April in Moscow's Red Square, and continued on till 4 May with the final two practice runs on 6 and 7 May, which also serve as the general practice runs, the one on 7 May expected to have Col. Gen. Salyukov leading the marchers on Red Square and General of the Army Shoygu inspecting, just as they would be doing in the actual parade in 2 days time (the final rehearsal, just as the actual parade would be, was scheduled to be held at around 10AM Moscow Daylight Time).


2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Preparation
All of them are open to the general public, with the 7 May final practice run being open also for war veterans. At the same time, final practice runs are being made for those joining the parades on 9 May in 26 other major cities in Russia plus 50 other towns and cities.