Charles Leclerc has made it a clear sweep of Friday’s F1 Monaco GP follow by heading Oscar Piastri within the second session.
Final yr’s Monaco Grand Prix victor Leclerc was simply 0.038s faster than McLaren’s championship chief Piastri, whereas Lewis Hamilton ensured each Ferraris featured within the high three.
Piastri after which team-mate Lando Norris led the early operating within the second one-hour session, earlier than Max Verstappen took over. However lower than 10 minutes into the session the purple flag got here out a primary time for Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar clipping the boundaries on the Nouvelle Chicane.
Hadjar punctured his left-rear tyre, with the Frenchman fuming behind the wheel however ultimately capable of convey the VCARB 02 again to the pits underneath the purple flag.
Because the session resumed Piastri led the way in which, however after 19 minutes the Australian precipitated a second stoppage by going straight into the tyre wall at Flip 1’s Ste Commit, escaping with minor injury.
Because the observe went inexperienced as soon as extra Leclerc, Aston’s Fernando Alonso and Hamilton all traded the lead on onerous Pirelli rubber earlier than the soft-tyre qualifying simulations began coming in.
It was final yr’s house winner Leclerc who upped the tempo, at one level holding the session’s three quickest lap occasions as he whittled his finest effort down from 1m11.414s to 1.m11.355s across the midway mark.
Leclerc’s lap would survive till the top, with Piastri his closest challenger after transient repairs at McLaren. Piastri completed simply 0.038s behind, with Hamilton one tenth behind his Ferrari team-mate in third.
Norris was fourth, three tenths in arrears, forward of a shock Racing Bulls duo of Liam Lawson and Hadjar, who recovered nicely from his early off however then tapped the wall once more – this time sliding out of Flip 1 – and bent his left-rear suspension.
Alonso was seventh after a stable exhibiting for Aston Martin, with Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Purple Bull world champion Max Verstappen rounding out the highest 10.
Verstappen narrowly headed team-mate Yuki Tsunoda after a usually low-key Friday for Purple Bull, with the Dutchman going lengthy in Ste Commit with out hurt. Verstappen was way more upset on the sluggish visitors across the swimming pool part, labelling it “so harmful”.
Haas driver Oliver Bearman was summoned by the FIA race stewards for allegedly not complying with the second purple flag.
The Monaco Grand Prix weekend resumes on Saturday with third follow at 12:30 native time, earlier than Monaco’s essential and hair-raising qualifying session at 16:00.
F1 Monaco GP – FP2 outcomes
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