4.45pm – It will be a Q3 on the edge of thousandths.
4.42pm – This is the picture at the end of Q2.
4.40pm – Ocon, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo, Stroll and Magnussen eliminated.
Checkered flag
4.39pm – Stroll does not improve and remains excluded. Verstappen is second, 13 thousandths behind Norris.
4.38pm – These are the eliminated: Gasly, Stroll, Magnussen, Hulkenberg and Ricciardo.
4.36pm – Leclerc rises to second position, 69 thousandths behind Piastri. Verstappen takes to the track with new tyres. He was the only one who was trying to save her.
4.35pm – Piastri is the first to go below 11”, and not by little: 1’10″756.
4.34pm – Sainz moves to 56 thousandths of a second behind Verstappen, Hamilton to 91.
4.33pm – The top 10 at the moment is this: Verstappen, Sainz, Tsunoda, Ocon, Leclerc, Gasly, Norris, Piastri, Hamilton and Russell.
4.32pm – Judging by the images Hulkenberg will have a three position penalty for impeding Ocon at the Casino. Albon, Magnussen, Hulkenberg, Ricciardo and Gasly have currently been eliminated.
4.31pm – Verstappen lowers to 1’11″019.
4.30pm – Impeding between Hulkenberg and Ocon noted.
4.29pm – Sainz is the fastest for now 1’11″177.
16.27 – The drivers are all on the track.
4.26pm – Only Leclerc and Verstappen used a single set of soft tires in Q1.
4.25pm – Green light at the end of the pit lane, Q2 starts. Traffic will still be a factor.
16.22 – Alonso has to complain about the traffic encountered at the exit from Rascasse on his final lap. The elimination of Alonso and Perez is a real surprise, the Mexican was eliminated a year ago due to a heavy contact with the barriers in Sainte-Devote.
16.21 – This is the picture at the end of Q1.
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4.20pm – Alonso, Sargeant, Perez, Bottas and Zhou eliminated.
Checkered flag
16.18 – Norris launches, he has to get out of the eliminations.
16.16 – Perez is still at risk, climbing only to 14th position. Norris, who is 18th, must save himself. Leclerc, Verstappen and Tsunoda are the only ones who did not mount new tyres.
16.14 – Perez, Tsunoda, Sargeant, Bottas and Zhou are currently eliminated.
16.13 – Leclerc takes the lead in 1’11″653.
16.12 – Second time for Hamilton, 35 thousandths behind Piastri, then Russell, Sainz and Verstappen. There are five of them in 89 thousandths. Leclerc launches himself to remove himself from an uncomfortable 13th position.
16.11 – Leclerc complained via radio that he was ‘out of sync’, meaning that when he pushes he meets the riders who re-launch, he defined it as “the worst possible position”. Perez, 15th, risks elimination.
16.10 – Leclerc has to return to the pits because he picked up a bag with his front wing. There were two episodes of impeding by Albon on Sainz, the second before Massenet.
16.09 – Piastri drops below 1’12”, 1’11″881, Verstappen is second at 203 thousandths.
16.08 – Russell is brought in front, the impediment in this case is Albon’s, but it seems truly marginal. He couldn’t do anything else.
16.07 – An impediment was noticed between Sainz and Albon in Turn-16. It is not yet known who slowed down the other.
16.06 – It will be a continuously improving Q1: now the two Haas are in front with Hulkenberg ahead of Magnussen, Piastri third.
16.05 – Verstappen takes the lead in 1’12″790, then Hamilton and Tsunoda.
16.04 – High times for now anyway for those who remained in the pit lane losing tire temperature.
16.02 – Hulkenberg, Sainz and Leclerc are the only ones still in the pits.
4.00pm – Green light at the end of the pit lane, Q1 starts. Hamilton inaugurates the long queue in the pit lane. The Ferraris are still in the pits.
3.55pm – Q1 will start soon, watch out for the impediments that all team principals fear.
3.50pm – 22°C the air temperature, 49°C the asphalt.
3.40pm – Telemetric analysis of FP3: Red Bull wasn’t enough to push with the power unit to dethrone an unleashed Charles Leclerc.
3.30pm – We begin our news with the results of this morning’s FP3.
Good afternoon dear readers of FormulaPassion.it and welcome to the appointment dedicated to the direct writing of the qualifications of the Monaco GPeighth round of the 2024 F1 world championship.
In Monte-Carlo we begin to get serious, and soon the fundamental fight for pole position will begin on the track of the calendar where it is most difficult to overtake. In FP2 and FP3 the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc he showed a blistering pace, with the Monegasque constantly superior on the flying lap. Watch out for Max Verstappen’s Red Bull, which increased its engine over the course of the weekend, and Lewis Hamilton, always in the leading positions.
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