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Alfa Romeo remain without points in 2021, but Antonio Giovinazzi gave the Swiss team something to smile about in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix, claiming their first Q3 appearance of the season, as he ended up P10 on the grid.

Formula 1 Leclerc takes Monaco GP pole but crashes out Ferraris Charles Leclerc has taken pole position for his home race, but crashed out late in Q3 bringing out the red flags and halting the session. Monaco Grand Prix – Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has secured the teams’ first pole position since the Mexican Grand Prix in 2019. The home hero will start the race on pole position ahead of Sunday’s Grand Prix, but crashed out on his last run late in Q3, bringing out the red flags, and ruini...

In one of the strangest ends to a qualifying in recent times, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc secured his first ever pole position at home for the Monaco Grand Prix before crashing his SF21 into the barriers – with the accident and resultant red flag ensuring Leclerc’s provisional pole time stood. And the Monegasque admitted he had “mixed feelings” after his first pole since Mexico 2019 given the possibility of grid penalties stemming from the crash, which could yet knock him off top spot.

Valtteri Bottas admitted to being frustrated that a chance to claim his first ever pole position at Monaco was taken away by Charles Leclerc’s sensational Q3 crash, which simultaneously handed the Monegasque pole at home. But considering how off the pace he and Mercedes had been in Thursday practice, Bottas conceded that he was at least proud of the turnaround in performance, as he secured P3 on the grid behind Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

Thoughts from Zhou, Drugovich and Nissany FIA Formula 2: Many congratulations to the top three finishers of the first FIA Formula 2 Sprint Race here in Monaco. Finishing in third place Roy Nissany for DAMS, in second Felipe Drugovich for UNI-Virtuosi and winning on the streets of Monaco for the first time, our winner Guanyu Zhou also for UNI-Virtuosi! Guanyu, many congratulations on the win, you looked to have the race under control from the start just how was it from the cockpit? Guanyu Zhou: ...

Hot on the heels of his best race with McLaren so far at the Spanish Grand Prix, and at a Monaco track he adores, Daniel Ricciardo was expected to go well around the streets of Monte Carlo. But after finishing both Thursday practice sessions for the Monaco Grand Prix in a lowly P15, Ricciardo couldn’t hide his frustration at failing to extract more lap time from his McLaren MCL35M. Winner here in 2018 and a two-time Monaco pole-sitter, Ricciardo finished the qualifying simulations in Free Pra...

PREMA Racing’s Robert Shwartzman pulled off a storming lap in the final two minutes of a disrupted Free Practice in Monte Carlo, setting 1:22.041 to finish more than half a second ahead of Carlin’s Dan Ticktum and Hitech Grand Prix’s Jüri Vips. There were three stoppages in the opening 20 minutes of the session, the first coming with only six laptimes on the board, after Marino Sato came to a halt on track and brought out a Red Flag. A second was required after Gianluca Petecof’s Ca...

Perhaps at Monaco more than anywhere else, peripheral vision is essential to nailing a fast lap rather than nailing the Armco barriers. But peripheral vision was in short supply for Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel in Free Practice 2 of the Monaco Grand Prix, after he was struck by an eye issue midway through the session. Vettel was carrying out qualifying simulation runs in his AMR21 when he radioed to his team to tell them he felt like his eye was bleeding – with Vettel revealing after the...

Charles Leclerc took steps to amending his disastrous home record on Thursday of the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix, overcoming gearbox issues in Free Practice 1 to head FP2 from Ferrari team mate Carlos Sainz. But despite the fight back, Leclerc – who’s yet to reach Q3 or finish a race in his native Monaco – said he was nervous about how much pace Red Bull and Mercedes would be able to find ahead of qualifying.

McLaren may be heading Ferrari by five points in the constructors’ standings, but after Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz took a shock one-two in Free Practice 2 for the Monaco Grand Prix, McLaren driver Lando Norris said he was unsurprised by the pace of the Scuderia drivers – while tipping former team mate Sainz as a potential winner this weekend.