Monaco F1 Friday Results & Recap: Free Practice

Leclerc was fastest in FP1 and FP2, finishing the day 0.044s ahead of his teammate Carlos Sainz and the Red Bulls of Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen.

F1 Monaco GP FP1 results: Leclerc leads Perez in Free Practice 1

Cla	Pilot		Chassis	laps	Weather	Difference	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	29	1’14.531
2	Sergio Pérez		Red Bull	30	1’14.570	0.039	0.039
3	Carlos Sainz Jr.		ferrari	28	1’14,601	0.070	0.031
4	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	26	1’14.712	0.181	0.111
5	Lando Norris		McLaren	31	1’15.056	0.525	0.344
6	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	33	1’15.083	0.552	0.027
7	Daniel Ricciardo		McLaren	33	1’15.157	0.626	0.074
8	George Russell		Mercedes	34	1’15.211	0.680	0.054
9	Sebastian Vettel		Aston Martin	33	1’15.387	0.856	0.176
10	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	29	1’15.499	0.968	0.112
11 11	Yuki Tsunoda		AlphaTauri	36	1’15.536	1.005	0.037
12	Lance Stroll		Aston Martin	26	1’15.539	1.008	0.003
13	Fernando Alonso		Alpine	28	1’15.749	1.218	0.210
14	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	30	1’15.806	1,275 th most common	0.057
15	Alexander Albon		williams	39	1’16.110	1.579	0.304
16	Esteban Ocon		Alpine	24	1’16.315	1.784	0.205
17	Guanyu Zhou		Alfa Romeo	27	1’16.417	1.886	0.102
18	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	30	1’17.714	3.183	1.297
19	Mick Schumacher		Haas	12	1’18.636	4.105	0.922
20	Valtteri Bottas		Alfa Romeo	2
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What happened in the free practice 1 of the Monaco GP 2022 of F1?

Leclerc set the pace early on, setting a 1m17.993s on medium tyres, but was soon overtaken by Sainz, Daniel Ricciardo ( McLaren ) and Verstappen as the track improved. Leclerc raised the bar again in 1m15.883s as times continued to drop, and Sainz beat him by just 0.001s.

Leclerc and Verstappen, on hard tyres, traded for top spot before Leclerc went straight into Santa Devota . Verstappen posted a 1m15.327s at the time.

The session was red-flagged after 20 minutes when Mick Schumacher’s Haas slowed at La Rascasse and stopped at the pitlane entrance with an MGU-K failure, causing chaos with the cars they could not pass to pit lane.

After the restart, Norris took the lead despite still not being at 100% health, with a 1m15.301s and then a 1m15.056s with mediums, leading a McLaren one-two at mid-session ahead of Ricciardo.

Verstappen switched to mids and took the lead with a 1m4.712s, 0.188s ahead of Pérez. Verstappen then suffered a huge block and went straight into Santa Devota, while Leclerc jumped into second and Sainz saw traffic at the Pool spoil a potential fastest lap for him.

Leclerc then moved to a 1m14.531s, 0.07s ahead of Sainz before Pérez moved up to second, 0.039s off the fastest time. Verstappen was fourth, ahead of Norris, Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) and Ricciardo. George Russell (Mercedes) finished eighth, ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who did his time on softs, and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes.

Kevin Magnussen (Haas) and Pérez also took a trip to Santa Devota.

Valtteri Bottas did not set a time due to a gearbox problem.

F1 Monaco GP FP2 results: Ferrari one-two with Leclerc at the helm

Cla	Pilot		Chassis	laps	Weather	Difference	Interval
1	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	30	1’12.656
two	Carlos Sainz Jr.		ferrari	32	1’12,700	0.044	0.044
3	Sergio Pérez		Red Bull	31	1’13.035	0.379	0.335
4	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	33	1’13.103	0.447	0.068
5	Lando Norris		McLaren	24	1’13.294	0.638	0.191
6	George Russell		Mercedes	31	1’13.406	0.750	0.112
7	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	32	1’13,636	0.980	0.230
8	Fernando Alonso		Alpine	31	1’13.912	1.256	0.276
9	Sebastian Vettel		Aston Martin	32	1’14.059	1.403	0.147
Ten	Yuki Tsunoda		AlphaTauri	27	1’14.134	1.478	0.075
11	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	32	1’14.239	1,583	0.105
12	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	29	1’14.267	1.611	0.028
13	Valtteri Bottas		Alfa Romeo	28	1’14.468	1.812	0.201
14	Alexander Albon		williams	33	1’14.486	1,830	0.018
15	Guanyu Zhou		Alfa Romeo	twenty three	1’14.525	1.869	0.039
16	Lance Stroll		Aston Martin	29	1’14.623	1.967	0.098
17	Mick Schumacher		Haas	33	1’14.894	2.238	0.271
18	Esteban Ocon		Alpine	34	1’15.216	2.560	0.322
19	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	33	1’16.276	3.620	1.060
20	Daniel Ricciardo		McLaren	2
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What happened in the free practice 2 of the Monaco GP 2022 of F1?

Magnussen set the starting bar at 1m15.972s, quickly surpassed by Leclerc with a 1m15.762s.

Times dropped substantially, with Pérez taking the lead with a 1m14.001s, a quarter of a second ahead of Verstappen. Both Red Bulls went out with the mediums initially, and the Ferraris with the hard ones.

Vettel had a big scare in the Pool and managed to avoid the wall, before Ricciardo crashed hard at the same spot, hitting the front left corner of the car against the barriers.

After the restart, Fernando Alonso (Alpine) was one of the first drivers to put on soft tires and took the lead briefly before Pérez and Verstappen regained the top spots, when the Mexican posted a 1m13.324s to take first place.

Leclerc posted a 1m13.125s on his first attack, which was bested by Verstappen with a 1m13.103s on his second lap. Leclerc then improved to set a new time of 1m12.764s. Sainz has placed second, three tenths behind his partner.

Leclerc cut his time, to 1m12.656s, and Sainz did the same, closing in on 0.221s and then 0.044s, which is how they finished.

Pérez was third ahead of Verstappen, Norris, Russell, Gasly, Alonso, Vettel and Yuki Tsunoda ( AlphaTauri ).

Hamilton went straight at Mirabeau and rejoined, while Norris brushed the wall at Santa Devota and then got a scare there too.