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F1 Monaco GP: Charles Leclerc outpaces Oscar Piastri by 0.038s amid FP2 crashes
Leclerc pips Piastri and Hamilton in a second Monaco F1 practice session disrupted by red flags
Filip Cleeren
Edited: May 23, 2025, 5:31 PM
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Charles Leclerc has made it a clean sweep of Friday's F1 Monaco GP practice by heading Oscar Piastri in the second session.
Last year's Monaco Grand Prix victor Leclerc was just 0.038s quicker than McLaren's championship leader Piastri, while Lewis Hamilton ensured both Ferraris featured in the top three.
Piastri and then team-mate Lando Norris led the early running in the second one-hour session, before Max Verstappen took over. But less than 10 minutes into the session the red flag came out a first time for Racing Bulls rookie Isack Hadjar clipping the barriers at the Nouvelle Chicane.
Hadjar punctured his left-rear tyre, with the Frenchman fuming behind the wheel but eventually able to bring the VCARB 02 back to the pits under the red flag.
As the session resumed Piastri led the way, but after 19 minutes the Australian caused a second stoppage by going straight into the tyre wall at Turn 1's Ste Devote, escaping with minor damage.
As the track went green once more Leclerc, Aston's Fernando Alonso and Hamilton all traded the lead on hard Pirelli rubber before the soft-tyre qualifying simulations started coming in.
It was last year's home winner Leclerc who upped the pace, at one point holding the session's three fastest lap times as he whittled his best effort down from 1m11.414s to 1.m11.355s around the halfway mark.
Leclerc's lap would survive until the end, with Piastri his closest challenger after brief repairs at McLaren. Piastri finished just 0.038s behind, with Hamilton one tenth behind his Ferrari team-mate in third.
Norris was fourth, three tenths in arrears, ahead of a surprise Racing Bulls duo of Liam Lawson and Hadjar, who recovered well from his early off but then tapped the wall again – this time sliding out of Turn 1 – and bent his left-rear suspension.
Alonso was seventh after a solid showing for Aston Martin, with Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen rounding out the top 10.
Verstappen narrowly headed team-mate Yuki Tsunoda after a typically low-key Friday for Red Bull, with the Dutchman going long in Ste Devote without harm. Verstappen was much more upset at the slow traffic around the swimming pool section, labelling it "so dangerous".
Haas driver Oliver Bearman was summoned by the FIA race stewards for allegedly not complying with the second red flag.
The Monaco Grand Prix weekend resumes on Saturday with third practice at 12:30 local time, before Monaco's crucial and hair-raising qualifying session at 16:00.
F1 Monaco GP - FP2 results
Main Information Additional Data Driver Info Driver Info
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Cla Driver # Chassis Engine Laps Time Interval Tyres km/h 1 C. Leclerc Ferrari 16
Ferrari Ferrari 32
1'11.355
S 168.358 2 O. Piastri McLaren 81
McLaren Mercedes 28
+0.038
1'11.393
0.038 S 168.268 3 L. Hamilton Ferrari 44
Ferrari Ferrari 30
+0.105
1'11.460
0.067 S 168.110 4 L. Norris McLaren 4
McLaren Mercedes 32
+0.322
1'11.677
0.217 S 167.601 5 L. Lawson Racing Bulls 30
RB Honda 32
+0.468
1'11.823
0.146 S 167.261 6 I. Hadjar Racing Bulls 6
RB Honda 17
+0.487
1'11.842
0.019 S 167.216 7 F. Alonso Aston Martin Racing 14
Aston Martin Mercedes 30
+0.535
1'11.890
0.048 S 167.105 8 A. Albon Williams 23
Williams Mercedes 34
+0.563
1'11.918
0.028 S 167.040 9
A. Kimi Antonelli Mercedes
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Mercedes Mercedes 32
+0.647
1'12.002
0.084 S 166.845 10 M. Verstappen Red Bull Racing 1
Red Bull Red Bull 29
+0.713
1'12.068
0.066 S 166.692 11 Y. Tsunoda Red Bull Racing 22
Red Bull Red Bull 30
+0.717
1'12.072
0.004 S 166.683 12 G. Russell Mercedes 63
Mercedes Mercedes 32
+0.737
1'12.092
0.020 S 166.637 13 C. Sainz Williams 55
Williams Mercedes 32
+0.796
1'12.151
0.059 M 166.500 14 G. Bortoleto Sauber 5
Sauber Ferrari 29
+0.879
1'12.234
0.083 S 166.309 15 O. Bearman Haas F1 Team 87
Haas Ferrari 33
+0.904
1'12.259
0.025 M 166.251 16 N. Hulkenberg Sauber 27
Sauber Ferrari 32
+0.907
1'12.262
0.003 S 166.245 17 P. Gasly Alpine 10
Alpine Renault 34
+1.049
1'12.404
0.142 S 165.919 18 L. Stroll Aston Martin Racing 18
Aston Martin Mercedes 30
+1.157
1'12.512
0.108 S 165.671 19 E. Ocon Haas F1 Team 31
Haas Ferrari 33
+1.186
1'12.541
0.029 S 165.605 20 F. Colapinto Alpine 43
Alpine Renault 31
+2.060
1'13.415
0.874 S 163.634 View full results
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