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By:
Jake Boxall-Legge
Friday’s thrills and spills
Monaco’s walls are punishing – as these three drivers found out on Friday.
Leclerc hit Stroll in FP1 and required a new front wing. Stroll, for his part, had too much damage to return to the circuit in the opening practice session.
Photo by: Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Images via Getty Images
Hadjar knocked the inside wall at the Nouvelle Chicane and took his tyre off the rim. His brief stoppage and debris caused a red flag. Later in the session, the Frenchman broke his rear suspension after hitting the wall at Turn 1
Photo by: Kym Illman / Getty Images
Even championship leaders aren’t invulnerable! Piastri locked up at Turn 1 and couldn’t get the turn-in to the Sainte Devote run-off – he instead speared into the wall.
Photo by: Peter Fox / Getty Images
Friday practice recap
In FP1, Charles Leclerc led the way from Max Verstappen, after recovering from a hairpin clash with Lance Stroll. The Canadian had just let through traffic, and coalesced with Leclerc on the racing line – leading to a Ferrari missing a front wing and a damaged Aston Martin.
Leclerc was also quickest in FP2, with a 0.038s advantage over McLaren’s Oscar Piastri – the Australian had earlier produced a brief red flag when he knocked his front wing off at Sainte Devote.
Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
Photo by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Images
FP1 results
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Cla | Driver | # | Chassis | Engine | Laps | Time | Interval | Tyres | km/h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 | 16 | Ferrari | Ferrari | 33 |
1’11.964 |
S | 166.933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | 1 | Red Bull | Red Bull | 30 |
+0.163 1’12.127 |
0.163 | S | 166.556 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 4 | McLaren | Mercedes | 32 |
+0.326 1’12.290 |
0.163 | S | 166.180 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 23 | Williams | Mercedes | 33 |
+0.350 1’12.314 |
0.024 | S | 166.125 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 81 | McLaren | Mercedes | 28 |
+0.378 1’12.342 |
0.028 | M | 166.061 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FP2 results
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1 | 16 | Ferrari | Ferrari | 32 |
1’11.355 |
S | 168.358 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | 81 | McLaren | Mercedes | 28 |
+0.038 1’11.393 |
0.038 | S | 168.268 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 44 | Ferrari | Ferrari | 30 |
+0.105 1’11.460 |
0.067 | S | 168.110 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 4 | McLaren | Mercedes | 32 |
+0.322 1’11.677 |
0.217 | S | 167.601 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 30 | RB | Honda | 32 |
+0.468 1’11.823 |
0.146 | S | 167.261 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Monaco Grand Prix Saturday sessions – FP3 starts soon
Good morning everyone, and welcome to our live coverage for the Monaco Grand Prix. FP3’s about 25 minutes away from starting up, and we’ll be bringing you everything that goes on before we jump to qualifying later on.
We’ve already had one race today, the F3 sprint – we’ll spare you any spoilers if you’ve not seen it.