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Hamilton given three-place Monaco grid penalty for Verstappen block
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has been penalised ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix for impeding fellow F1 champion Max Verstappen in the first segment of qualifying.The penalty had been anticipated by Verstappen, who said that even though Hamilton was clearly blameless in the incident past precedent suggested he had to be sanctioned.It means Hamilton will move from fourth on the grid to sev...
What's behind Sainz's Williams regression in Monaco
Carlos Sainz’s Williams momentum came to an abrupt halt in Monaco Grand Prix qualifying, as the man who’d started sixth for three grands prix in a row didn’t even make it past Q2.That his team-mate Alex Albon starts just one place ahead of him in 10th was fairly irrelevant to Sainz, who felt he’d compromised himself with needless set-up tinkering in over-reaction to finding the Williams harder to ...
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Monaco GP F1 2025 grid after penalties for Hamilton + two others
McLaren driver Lando Norris defeated Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and championship-leading team-mate Oscar Piastri in battle for pole position for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.The two Mercedes drivers were effectively non-participants in Q2 despite making it through. Kimi Antonelli was ruled out by a Q1 crash, and team-mate George Russell - by a red flag-causing power loss on his first Q2 push lap.And ...
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Stroll gets second grid penalty of Monaco GP F1 weekend
Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Lance Stroll has incurred his second grid penalty of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend for impeding Pierre Gasly in qualifying.The Canadian driver has had a three-place grid penalty added on top of his one-place grid penalty from Friday practice, when he collided with a fast-approaching Charles Leclerc at the Hotel hairpin.But unlike that incident, this newest incident do...
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Monaco F1 2025 qualifying results
McLaren driver Lando Norris defeated Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and championship-leading team-mate Oscar Piastri in battle for pole position for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.The two Mercedes drivers were effectively non-participants in Q2 despite making it through. Kimi Antonelli was ruled out by a Q1 crash, and team-mate George Russell - by a red flag-causing power loss on his first Q2 push lap.Grid...
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Why two Monaco GP red flag overtakes weren't penalised like Bearman's
Two Formula 1 drivers were spared penalties for overtaking under red flags in Monaco Grand Prix practice, a day after Ollie Bearman incurred a heavy 10-place grid penalty for the offence.Carlos Sainz and Franco Colapinto were both placed under investigation in the aftermath of Saturday's practice session, albeit while Colapinto's potential offence had taken place in FP3, Sainz's was a Friday pract...
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F1 Monaco 2025 Grand Prix practice results
Below you'll find the results from practice at Formula 1's 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. Practice threeFerrari completed a clean sweep of Monaco practice sessions with Charles Leclerc as team-mate Lewis Hamilton caused a late red flag.Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m10.953sMax Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.280sLando Norris (McLaren) +0.294sOscar Piastri (McLaren) +0.445sLewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +0.563sAlex Albon...
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Leclerc quickest again as Hamilton crash caps off Monaco practice
Charles Leclerc maintained Ferrari’s surprise form at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, topping final practice from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen while Leclerc's Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton crashed out.Leclerc and Verstappen were a league apart in the early part of the session, trading fastest times before Verstappen pumped in a 1m11.2s lap on the medium compound Pirelli tyre that everyone, including...
F1 teams trying tyre blanket tricks amid Monaco dilemma
The knife-edge performance of Pirelli's new softest C6 compound has prompted teams to try some unusual tyre blanket tactics in a bid to unleash its best performance.Ahead of an intriguing qualifying day for the Monaco Grand Prix, where teams will need to make a critical call on which is the best tyre to use, there remains some uncertainty about how the C6 is going to fare.While it definitely offer...
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Newey exposes key Aston Martin weakness that may take two years to fix
Adrian Newey has revealed a key weakness with one of Aston Martin’s major new investments that risks slowing its push to the front in Formula 1.The design genius has been recruited by Aston Martin in a bid to help it become a race-winning F1 force during the new rules era that kicks off in 2026.However, while impressed with many of the facilities and staff he has found at the team since his arriva...
Podcast: The car that changed F1 forever
On the latest episode of And Colossally That's History! Richard Williams and Matt Bishop reappraise the legacy of one of Formula 1's most enduring cars: the Lotus 72.Named by no less than Adrian Newey as the car he wishes he'd designed, the 72 was a revolutionary machine in Formula 1 terms, setting the template for all F1 cars that would follow.It was also one of the longest-serving and most succe...
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Nine things we learned on Monaco GP's surprising Friday
Nobody seems more surprised by who is fastest in Monaco so far than pacesetter Charles Leclerc himself, but there were plenty of interesting elements to Formula 1 Friday practice than just Ferrari's very strong day.A lot more qualifying simulations than normal (because Saturday's so important here in Monaco), a few top drivers out of position, and some inevitable incidents with the walls, made for...
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Mark Hughes' take on flying Ferrari's Monaco win chances
Ferrari was all over Monaco’s kerbs and slow corners and Charles Leclerc was his usual audacious Monaco self in how he expressed himself around here. He was quickest in both Monaco Grand Prix Friday Formula 1 practice sessions with Lewis Hamilton in the sister car right behind him in the headline times. Are the red cars really the fastest? Maybe not. McLaren and Max Verstappen’s Red Bull look to h...
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Bearman handed major penalty for red flag overtake
Ollie Bearman has been slapped with a hefty 10-place grid penalty for this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix for a red flag infringement during second practice.Red flag infringements often warrant hefty penalties, but Bearman’s earned a particularly sizeable grid drop at Monaco for his faux pas during the red flag period caused by Oscar Piastri nosing his McLaren into the barriers at Sainte Devote. Havi...
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Leclerc on top and Red Bull struggling in Monaco FP2
Charles Leclerc topped both Friday practice sessions at Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix, eclipsing Oscar Piastri’s McLaren in an incident-filled second session.Leclerc headed into the weekend expecting a tricky event for Ferrari, with his 2025 F1 car seemingly not possessing the strengths that allowed Leclerc to secure a home victory last year.But Leclerc looked quick throughout Friday, going quicke...
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'He was toast' - The mistake Mercedes vows not to make again
Mercedes will apply lessons from Kimi Antonelli’s exhausting home race at Imola last weekend for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza after admitting its Formula 1 rookie was “toast as early as Friday”.Antonelli, for whom Imola is his local track as he comes from Bologna, had a large following in attendance at last week’s event with friends, family and supporters who Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said ...
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Monaco reveals McLaren's other 2025 F1 cooling trick
McLaren has highlighted how an all-new engine cooling system for its 2025 Formula 1 car is playing an important part in its hot weather advantage.
While much of the focus on McLaren's pacesetting form in the heat has revolved around how it better manages rear tyre temperatures, an important element that is also contributing to its edge revolves around the efficiency of the cooling system.By bei...
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Stroll/Leclerc practice crash results in Monaco GP grid drop
Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Lance Stroll has incurred a rare practice-incident grid penalty on Friday at the Monaco Grand Prix.The F1 stewards tend to exercise a heavy dose of lenience when it comes to judging practice incidents - whether they be collisions or drivers being impeded - and this also appears to have been the case in this current investigation.But the severity of the incident was st...
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F1 Monaco 2025 Grand Prix practice results
Below you'll find the results from practice at Formula 1's 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. Practice one Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m11.964sMax Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.163s Lando Norris (McLaren) +0.326s Alex Albon (Williams) +0.350sOscar Piastri (McLaren) +0.378sGeorge Russell (Mercedes) +0.518sCarlos Sainz (Williams) +0.570sPierre Gasly (Alpine) +0.705sLewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +0.726sFernando Alonso (As...
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Leclerc/Stroll clash: Everything that happened in Monaco FP1
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc topped the opening practice session of the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.The reigning Monaco GP winner, Leclerc, had approached the weekend with trepidation given the SF-25's previously documented deficiencies in low-speed corners - and he had a particularly messy start to the session. He also repeatedly complained of the car's handling on team radio.Yet all the w...