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That concludes our coverage of final practice. Here’s the race report.
Franco Colapinto is under investigation for a potential red flag infringement.
FP3 has finished and Charles Leclerc is fastest. Report to follow.
That’s going to be a worry for Ferrari as they have little time to fix the damage to his car.
Hamilton has stopped at Casino and the red flags are out. He hit the wall after encountering traffic at Massenet.
Hamilton complains he has a “lot of traffic.” Ricardo Adami tells him he was “fastest, first sector” but Leclerc has beaten that now and improves again to a 1’10.953.
Verstappen calling his car “undriveable.”
Norris improves to third, 0.068s off Leclerc and faster of all in the middle sector.
Leclerc finally displaced Verstappen using the soft tyres to set a 1’11.179, six-hundredths of a second faster. There must be a lot of track evolution in that, however.
Russell struggling in 11th: “We are nowhere at the moment and I am running out of ideas for this session.”
Piastri does the best time in the middle sector and moves to second, 0.172s off Verstappen.
Norris can’t coax more times out of his softs either and stays third.
Piastri is six tenths off in sixth. Hamilton goes fourth, 0.283s off.
Leclerc struggling to get better lap times out of the soft as well, he goes second, 0.211s slower than Verstappen.
Notwithstanding the fact he’s set the fastest time so far on both the medium tyre and the soft, Verstappen reports: “I’ve got no grip.”
Tsunoda: “I’ve got so much instability. I don’t know why.”
Verstappen has switched to the softs now and flies through the first sector, loses time in the second and ends up six hundredths of a second off his best.
Lance Stroll was penalised for colliding with Leclerc yesterday and now he’s held Norris up. “What’s Stroll doing?” asks the McLaren driver.
Verstappen continuing to lower the best time on mediums, he’s now on a 1’11.233.
Leclerc has got the softs working though and takes the top time back with a 1’11.532.
Verstappen is loving his medium tyres and improves again to a 1’11.653, pulling four-tenths clear of Tsunoda.
A great lap by Tsunoda puts him up to second, within a tenth of a second of Verstappen.
Isack Hadjar had a scare in the tunnel in Formula 2 last year and now he encounters his former team mate there. “Man that was dangerous by Yuki.”
Verstappen sets a new benchmark with a 1’11.961 so he is 0.165s ahead of Norris, and that was on mediums.
That doesn’t last – Norris beats him by seven-hundredths of a second. Albon up to a strong fourth.
Leclerc takes the top time back, he was fastest of all in the first sector.
Hamilton improves to second, 0.279s off Norris.
Hamilton holds up Alexander Albon at Massenet. “I tried to get out of the way,” he says. “I couldn’t see past the car that was behind me.”
Norris sets a new benchmark with a 1’12.347 and is now 0.365s ahead of Leclerc.
Lance Stroll does the fastest time on mediums so far, moving up to second.
Yesterday’s pace-setter Charles Leclerc picks up where he left off wit a 1’12.712. Lando Norris two-tenths off that, both on softs, Max Verstappen third on mediums.
Hulkenberg has gone straight on at Anthony Noghes, stopped just shy of the barrier, and is able to continue.
Hamilton: “The rear is sliding a lot.”
Hamilton opts for a set of softs and ends up two hundredths of a second off Hulkenberg’s time on mediums. The soft was not the quickest tyre for some teams over a single lap last weekend – is it the same case again here?
The first runners set their times on soft tyres but Nico Hulkenberg just beat them by almost a second on the mediums.
The Aston Martin drivers head out as the session begins, joined by Liam Lawson and Franco Colapinto.
Will we get a clean session in? We had three red flags yesterday.
There were some concerns earlier in the week that rain could interfere with Friday’s running but the conditions are ideal as the final hour of practice approaches. Air temperature is 21C, track temperature 38C.
Third practice for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix is coming up next.
2025 Monaco Grand Prix
- Norris predicts his Monaco pole record should stand “for a very long time”
- Bearman is right: Formula 1 should let Monaco be Monaco
- Wurz’s proposed Monaco track changes would make ‘1 to 5%’ difference – Sainz
- Bortoleto claims his “put him in the wall” radio message was taken out of context
- I deserved penalty, deliberate rule breaking ‘should never be allowed’ – Russell
