Minute-by-minute updates on Saturday final practice and qualifying for the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix at Circuit de Monaco.
Third and final practice for the Monaco GP gets underway at 12.00pm BST (1.00pm local time) before the all-important qualifying session which starts at 3.00pm BST (4.00pm local time). Fresh from the Spanish GP, the F1 action continues with the Monaco GP. Minute-by-minute updates on Saturday final practice and qualifying for the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix at Circuit de Monaco.
Last year, it was Charles Leclerc's Q3 crash that red flagged the session, leading to him landing on pole. This year, Sergio Perez had a slip of his own, ...
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Charles Leclerc has taken provisional pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix for Ferrari ahead of Carlos Sainz Jnr and Sergio Perez.
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Charles Leclerc put in a dominant display at home to take pole position for the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix, his sensational lap keeping team mate Carlos Sainz ...
Leclerc is set to lead when the lights go out for the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix at 1500 local time. It’s been a very smooth weekend until now; I knew the pace was in the car I just had to do the job and it went perfectly. Behind them was Aston Martin’s Vettel in P9, and the other Alpine of Ocon in 10th. The pit lane queue confirmed that there would be a mad rush to set times when the session would resume, with Ricciardo, Ocon, Latifi, Tsunoda and Zhou in the provisional drop zone while Norris was on the edge in P15. Tsunoda’s brush with the barriers at the chicane and resultant red flag saw Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu miss out on a final chance to set a flying lap and qualify 20th. Then, another red flag: Perez had crashed just before the tunnel, Sainz collecting him having seen the preceding yellow flag too late, to essentially finish the session. That last lap before the red flag was very very good. Bottas couldn’t make it out of Q2 in P12, Magnussen dropping to P13, while Ricciardo eliminated in 14th. Yuki Tsunoda caused a brief red flag in Q1 after clipping the barrier, but managed to emerge from the session. This thrilling conclusion saw Ocon jump to fourth, Norris to fifth, while Tsunoda recovered to go ninth for AlphaTauri behind Haas’s Magnussen in P8. Vettel’s last-gasp effort saw him jump to eighth and Russell finished ninth – with Alonso making it through to Q3 in P10, as Tsunoda lost out by a tenth of a second. "It is very special.
Full standings after Saturday's qualifying and what you need to know ahead of Sunday as the F1 title race hots up in Monte Carlo.
- 15th: Mick Schumacher (Haas) - 13th: Kevin Magnussen (Haas) - 8th: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) - 6th: George Russell (Mercedes) - 2nd: Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) - 1st: Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
Here are the results from the qualifying session in Monte Carlo, where Ferrari locked out the front row for the Monaco Grand Prix.
- Sergio Perez Red Bull +0.435 - Max Verstappen Red Bull +0.424 - Carlos Sainz Ferrari +0.047 - Max Verstappen Red Bull +0.253 - Carlos Sainz Ferrari +0.210 - Sergio Perez Red Bull +0.090 - Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:11.864 - Max Verstappen Red Bull +0.290 - Sergio Perez Red Bull +0.253 The session ended in drama due to Red Bull’s Sergio Perez hitting the barrier at Portier on his final flying run. - Carlos Sainz Ferrari +0.225 - Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:11.376
There is no Grand Prix on the calendar where pole position is as important as in Monaco. Overtaking is incredibly difficult on the narrow street circuit and ...
The pressure on the pit crew in Monaco is immense. The undercut is extremely powerful, and any mistake in the pitlane is, therefore, more costly. Ferrari thought they had solved the problem, but on the way to the grid Leclerc broke down. Monaco is still high for Formula 1, but way down in comparison at 45%. Since 2015, pole position has won twice at Monaco. Prior to that, there was a six-race run of the pole-sitter also taking the victory on Sunday. It wasn't the case last time out in Spain but pole position in Barcelona as won an incredible 72% of races. Sergio Perez proved the fastest in the concluding third free practice session.