00:00First practice ahead of the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, Formula 1's blue ribboned event and the race they all want to win.
00:07Ferrari drivers have been on pole in Monte Carlo 13 times including last time we were here when local boy Charles Leclerc bagged prime position for the Grand Prix which he subsequently won.
00:16This time out he went deep at Mirabeau on an early lap suffering a lock-up, the circuit dusty and lacking grip.
00:22And then moments later the red flags were out after he suffered a collision approaching the hairpin.
00:26Lance Stroll, having moved aside for Kimi Antonelli, didn't seem to see the Ferrari in his mirrors or the blue flags being waved.
00:34Come on. We crushed. I don't think he was aware about the blue flags.
00:42And Leclerc is there.
00:44I don't hear you.
00:46It's on Stroll for being so slow and then he's obviously getting out of the way of Antonelli but then coming back into the path of a fast-moving Charles Leclerc.
00:54A clumsy one to start the weekend and some unnecessary damage.
00:58The accident ended the Aston Martin driver's session.
01:01The team tasked with trying to fix his damaged rear end.
01:05Leclerc strapped on a new front wing and subsequently put in the quickest lap of the session.
01:09Clocked at 1 minute 11.964.
01:13Ferrari teammate Lewis Hamilton three times a winner here.
01:16And one of the experts at navigating this circuit seemed to annoy Liam Norsen at the Anthony Nogue's corner.
01:22I nearly hit Hamilton.
01:24It was great right before the last corner.
01:26Usual Hamilton stuff. That's okay.
01:28The beef we didn't expect.
01:30The racing bulls in Lewis Hamilton.
01:32Hamilton in turn had a hairy moment at Massonet.
01:35These guys were going slow there.
01:37And later went flying over the curbs at the swimming pool.
01:41Ah, mayhem.
01:43Traffic.
01:44I have to box mayhem.
01:45I've just gone completely over the curb.
01:47Hamilton actually did pretty well to hit the brakes and not plunge it deep into the barriers.
01:53The previous focus of the seven-time champ's displeasure was Pierre Gasly,
01:56who himself found the traffic frustrating at the Nouvelle Chicane.
02:00Carlos Sainz suffered a big lock-up at Sandovot,
02:08opting to take his Williams to the escape road to avoid the barriers there.
02:13Survival corner at Sandovot.
02:15And Sainz there with a big, smoky lock-up as he was trying to attack our new set of soft tyres for him.
02:20As did Lando Norris shortly afterwards.
02:23The streets of Monte Carlo have been a happy hunting ground for McLaren over the years.
02:27Fifteen times they've graced the top step.
02:29For that, you need a fast car and an experienced driver.
02:32And the Papaya team have both in spades.
02:35However, neither managed but a complete lap together
02:37that was good enough to top the timing tables this time.
02:40Norris, the better of the pair P3.
02:41Oscar Piastri, who claimed to have tapped the wall at one point, was two places lower.
02:46Max Verstappen has two Monaco Grand Prix winners' trophies to his name,
02:50and he showed his undoubted understanding of the principality streets,
02:53putting in the second-best time just over a tenth and a half slower than Leclerc.
02:57So the Monagast driver, fastest in front of his adoring local fans,
03:01then came Verstappen, Norris and Alex Albon.
03:04P5 for Piastri, and he was ahead of George Russell, Sainz, Gasly, Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
03:10P11 for Antonelli, who touched the wall late on,
03:13and he was followed by Hulkenberg, Hajar, Sonoda, Behrman, Ocon, Lawson,
03:17Bortoleto, Colopinto and Lance Stroll.
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