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Three feasible ways to create Monaco overtaking - Wurz's proposals explained
Grand Prix Drivers' Association chairman Alex Wurz has outlined three feasible ways that Monaco's Formula 1 circuit can be improved to help overtaking.Following another weekend of frustration over the lack of passing opportunities on the Monte Carlo street circuit - accentuated by the controversial team manipulation the situation triggered - there has been renewed talk about the need for potential...
Everything we learned from F1's 2025 Monaco GP weekend
An experimental Monaco Grand Prix didn’t quite fire into life as Formula 1 hoped, but it was a fascinating weekend and a storied race.Here are eight things we learned from Monte Carlo. More to come from ‘smarter’ NorrisLando Norris scored pole position and won a grand prix for the first time since the season opener in Australia. In Monaco, one does tend to lead to the other, so this was an ideal p...
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Where Hamilton stands after difficult Monaco and more Ferrari radio angst
Lewis Hamilton’s run to fifth place at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix meant, combined with Charles Leclerc’s combative second place, Ferrari took home its biggest points haul from a single event so far this season - but alongside that collective success was another difficult weekend individually for Hamilton.He didn’t share Leclerc’s pre-event pessimism about Ferrari’s apparent low-speed weakness from...
'We had no choice' - Williams' mid-race apology to Mercedes
Williams boss James Vowles texted Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff during the Monaco Grand Prix to apologise for the manipulation tactics his team had unleashed.In a bid to protect its points-scoring spots, Williams ordered Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon to take turns in backing off to help create a gap in front of them so their team-mates could complete their mandatory stops without losing position.T...
Edd Straw's 2025 Monaco Grand Prix F1 driver rankings
The mandatory two-stop strategy and extreme team tactics that format triggered shaped an odd Monaco Grand Prix - but who actually drove well amid the traffic jams?Here's Edd Straw's ranking of all 20 drivers' performances - and if you want to quiz him about it, you can do so in The Race Members' Club on Patreon and he'll answer your points in his rankings debrief video.How do the rankings work? Th...
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Mark Hughes: Top teams could've gamed Monaco system too
Take nothing away from Lando Norris or the McLaren Formula 1 team here for they did a perfect job together in securing Monaco Grand Prix victory ahead of a very fast Ferrari driven by that Monaco master Charles Leclerc. But the strategic implications of the new two-stop stipulation made for a very strangely conducted race - without any of the surprise position jumbling the changes were designed to...
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When is the next F1 race? Full 2025 race and testing calendar
The 10 Formula 1 teams and 20 drivers will battle it out over 24 rounds this year - that's a lot to keep track of. Here are the key dates for your diary: F1 2025 remaining racesSpanish Grand Prix - June 1Canadian Grand Prix - June 15Austrian Grand Prix - June 29British Grand Prix - July 6Belgian Grand Prix* - July 27Hungarian Grand Prix - August 3Dutch Grand Prix - August 31Italian Grand Prix - Se...
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How many race wins does each 2025 F1 driver have?
Half of the 2025 Formula 1 grid have won at least one grand prix. As you'd expect, the two most recent F1 champions - Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen - top the list. But where do the other 10 race winners stand? We detail how many wins each 2025 driver has and where they stand in the all-time win list. We're not counting sprint races, so this list only contains proper grand prix victories.Lewis ...
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'I didn't really care' - Russell stands by illegal Albon pass
An unrepentant George Russell “didn’t really care” about his drivethrough penalty for passing Alex Albon’s Williams by cutting the chicane in Formula 1’s contentious 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.The mandated two-stop strategy format deployed for the race in an attempt to improve the spectacle led to teams using one car to back up the pack so that the other could make a pitstop without losing positions.
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Williams drivers sorry for 'manipulation' of F1's Monaco GP
Williams drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz have expressed their regret that Formula 1’s mandatory two-stop strategy experiment at the Monaco Grand Prix descended into “manipulation”.A new Monaco-specific rule demanding three sets of tyres be used left nobody sure which strategy would be most effective or how the race would be impacted by what others chose to do or if there were any major inciden...
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F1's failed gamble - Our verdict on 2025 Monaco Grand Prix
Formula 1 hoped the mandatory two-stop strategy would spice up the Monaco Grand Prix after years of criticism of the Sunday spectacle reached a crescendo with 2024's 'zero stop' race.But it's fair to say the reality might not have been what F1 had in mind.Here are our snap verdicts on the race that just happened.Not racing as it's meant to beScott Mitchell-MalmThis was a novel Monaco Grand Prix bu...
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Winners and losers from F1's 2025 Monaco Grand Prix
There will be few Formula 1 races more frustrating than the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix for much of the field.But some drivers had a lot more to be annoyed about than others, either through self-inflicted mistakes or bad luck.Here are our picks for the biggest winners and losers from the race:Winner: Lando Norris Lando Norris has taken a lot of stick for his driving this season so far (criticism he oft...
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F1 Monaco Grand Prix 2025 race result
Lando Norris picked up his first Formula 1 win on the streets of Monte Carlo by beating Charles Leclerc to victory in the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.Below you'll find the full race results from the 78-lap race. Lando Norris (McLaren) Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) Oscar Piastri (McLaren)Max Verstappen (Red Bull)Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)Esteban Ocon (Haas)Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls...
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Norris beats Leclerc as F1's Monaco shake-up falls flat
Lando Norris cut McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri's Formula 1 world championship lead to three points by winning the Monaco Grand Prix.Charles Leclerc's Ferrari finished between the McLarens in second.The mandated two-stop strategy failed to spice up the lead battle, though it did add some intrigue, and its main consequence was triggering extremely contentious team tactics incidents further down th...
Chaos, loopholes and fears: How Monaco GP is shaping up
What began life as a fairly simple rule change to spice up Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix with an extra pitstop has morphed into open talk of “chaos” being unleashed on the streets of Monte Carlo.Whereas two stops triggered by tyre wear are fairly easy for teams to navigate, it is Monaco’s unique near zero-deg nature, lack of overtaking opportunities, plus safety car and red flag risks, that have o...
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What explains Ferrari pace that's surprised Leclerc - and what doesn't
Charles Leclerc spent the build-up to the Monaco Grand Prix weekend writing off his hopes of challenging for a second consecutive home victory given Ferrari’s low-speed troubles. While he lost out on pole position by 0.109s to McLaren’s Lando Norris, Ferrari’s pace proved that the slow-corner weakness of recent events was not the limitation he anticipated. So what changed?The answer is both obviou...
Why it 'doesn't matter what you do' to Red Bull's car in Monaco
Max Verstappen and Red Bull have saved several Formula 1 weekends this season with big turnarounds - but not in Monaco, where it "doesn't matter what you do with the set-up".Verstappen's disappointing run to fifth in Monaco qualifying (though he will start fourth thanks to a Lewis Hamilton grid penalty for blocking him) came with Red Bull's biggest deficit of the season so far.The four-time world ...
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Norris's emphatic qualifying turnaround explained
Not faster. Just better and smarter.That was Lando Norris's explanation for how he put to bed his recent Formula 1 qualifying demons to secure a crucial pole position at Monaco - his first since the season opener in Australia two months ago.Norris has been openly self-critical of a run of qualifying errors that have compounded struggles he has had getting comfortable with his car when on the limit...
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Mark Hughes: Where Ferrari's Monaco F1 pole bid was lost
There was just a tenth in it between Lando Norris's pole-setting McLaren and the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc, which had set the Monaco Grand Prix circuit alight throughout the practices. The true picture between them was only revealed on their final Q3 laps.McLaren was pretty quick immediately too. Norris especially. But Leclerc was spectacular, on a no-compromise mission for pole as soon as the ca...
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Where next for Russell and Mercedes after 'abysmal' qualifying?
George Russell looked and sounded utterly deflated at the prospect of starting the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix from well outside the top 10. Even the unpredictability of the first mandated two-stop Monaco F1 race couldn't lift his spirits.Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff called it an "abysmal" qualifying session, with Kimi Antonelli limited to 15th place thanks to tagging the inside barrier at the Nouvell...
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