F1 Grand Prix practice results: Leclerc fastest in Monaco GP on Friday

Leclerc was fastest in FP1 and FP2, finishing the day 0.044s ahead of teammate Carlos Sainz and the Red Bulls of Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen.

Monaco Grand Prix FP1 results: Leclerc fastest from Perez

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	29	1'14.531
2	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	30	1'14.570	0.039	0.039
3	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	28	1'14.601	0.070	0.031
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	26	1'14.712	0.181	0.111
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	31	1'15.056	0.525	0.344
6	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	33	1'15.083	0.552	0.027
7	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	33	1'15.157	0.626	0.074
8	George Russell	Mercedes	34	1'15.211	0.680	0.054
9	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	33	1'15.387	0.856	0.176
10	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	29	1'15.499	0.968	0.112
11	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	36	1'15.536	1.005	0.037
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	26	1'15.539	1.008	0.003
13	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	28	1'15.749	1.218	0.210
14	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	30	1'15.806	1.275	0.057
15	Alex Albon	Williams	39	1'16.110	1.579	0.304
16	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	24	1'16.315	1.784	0.205
17	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo	27	1'16.417	1.886	0.102
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	30	1'17.714	3.183	1.297
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas	12	1'18.636	4.105	0.922
20	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	2
View full results

What happened in Monaco GP Free Practice 1?

Leclerc set the early pace at 1m17.993 on medium tyres, soon topped by Sainz, Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren), Verstappen and the track rubbered-in. Leclerc reset the bar at 15.883s as the times continued to tumble, as Sainz beat him by 0.001s.

Leclerc and Verstappen, running the hard tyres, swapped the fastest time between them before Leclerc went straight on at Sainte Devote. Verstappen managed 1m15.327s at this point.

The session was red flagged after 20 minutes when Mick Schumacher’s Haas slowed at Rascasse and ground to a halt at the pitlane entry with an MGU-K fault, causing chaos as cars couldn’t pit.

After the restart, Norris went P1 despite his sickness on 1m15.301s and then 1m15.056s on mediums, leading a mid-session McLaren 1-2 ahead of Ricciardo.

Verstappen switched to mediums and went to the top on 1m14.712s, 0.188s ahead of Perez. Verstappen then had a huge lock-up and went straight on at Ste Devote, as Leclerc jumped up to second and Sainz had a potential P1 lap ruined by traffic at the Swimming Pool section.

Leclerc then took P1 on 1m14.531s, 0.07s ahead of Sainz before Perez rose to second, 0.039s off the quickest time. Verstappen was fourth, ahead of Norris, Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) and Ricciardo. George Russell (Mercedes) was eighth, ahead of Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel – a rare soft runner in this session – and Lewis Hamilton’s Merc.

Kevin Magnussen (Haas) and Perez also took a trip down the Ste Devote escape road.

Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas didn’t set a time due to a gearbox problem.

Monaco Grand Prix FP2 results: Leclerc fastest from Sainz

Cla	Driver	Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	30	1'12.656
2	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	32	1'12.700	0.044	0.044
3	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	31	1'13.035	0.379	0.335
4	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	33	1'13.103	0.447	0.068
5	Lando Norris	McLaren	24	1'13.294	0.638	0.191
6	George Russell	Mercedes	31	1'13.406	0.750	0.112
7	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	32	1'13.636	0.980	0.230
8	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	31	1'13.912	1.256	0.276
9	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	32	1'14.059	1.403	0.147
10	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	27	1'14.134	1.478	0.075
11	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	32	1'14.239	1.583	0.105
12	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	29	1'14.267	1.611	0.028
13	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	28	1'14.468	1.812	0.201
14	Alex Albon	Williams	33	1'14.486	1.830	0.018
15	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo	23	1'14.525	1.869	0.039
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	29	1'14.623	1.967	0.098
17	Mick Schumacher	Haas	33	1'14.894	2.238	0.271
18	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	34	1'15.216	2.560	0.322
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	33	1'16.276	3.620	1.060
20	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	2
View full results

What happened in Monaco GP Free Practice 2?

Magnussen set the early bar at 1m15.972s, quickly usurped by Leclerc on 1m15.762s.

Times dropped substantially, with Perez going P1 on 1m14.001s – a quarter of a second ahead of Verstappen, both Red Bulls running the mediums initially with the Ferraris behind them using hards.

Vettel had a huge moment at the Swimming Pool, and just kept it out of the wall, before Ricciardo crashed heavily at the same spot – swiping the left-front corner off the car against the barriers.

After the restart, Fernando Alonso (Alpine) was one of the first drivers on soft rubber and leapt to the head of the field briefly before Perez and Verstappen retook the top spots, Perez producing 1m13.324s for P1.

Leclerc set 1m13.125s on his first flyer, which was topped by Verstappen at 1m13.103s on his second lap, then Leclerc improved to set a new P1 time of 1m12.764s. Sainz went second, three tenths down on his teammate.

Leclerc chipped his time down – to 1m12.656s – and Sainz did likewise, getting within 0.221s and then 0.044s, which is how they ended up.

Perez was third ahead of Verstappen, Norris, Russell, Gasly, Alonso, Vettel and Yuki Tsunoda.

Hamilton went straight on Mirabeau and rejoined, while Norris clipped the wall at Ste Devote and had a second adventure there late on.