Leclerc’s challenges are caused by a rugged start to Monaco; Sainz and Alonso start well

A year ago, he cried with joy to break his stripes of bad luck in Monaco And finally achieved a success in which he dreamed of life, because he was so small, in the streets of his city. And now, a year later, with a car that started with the person far from successes and had many problems, especially in a turn, Charles Leclerc QUaaeere defends his success where he has grown, before Verstappen And the McLaren.

Ferrari’s pilot started F1 2025 Monaco Grand Prix challenging reasons. It is true that the principality has always been a desirable land for Ferrari. And that leclerc always finds a few tenth more before his audience. But it seems complicated that the red car rides in the pools for a pole that in Monaco is almost synonymous with success because of how difficult it is to advance, and it should be this year again despite the obligation to make two racing tire changes (regulations premieres this year to add strategic emotions to the race).

However‘Il principalo’ or ‘il predestinate’, The session ended with a great foot. Of course, after more of the complex start to FP1. First, he had an incident with Lance stroll in the first minutes, coming from the first red flag of the weekend. When he speeds up the Grand Hotel’s curve, Take a walk He changed his direction, went into Charles’ monitoring, which was inevitable to do so in advance. That left him without a spoiler. To raise this, when he returned to the track, he complained about something unique to his Ferrari: “We’re nowhere to go. In the curves on the right I have subviring. And on the left, it has safety.”. And eventually, he began to attack, getting good crons put him in front.

Finally, Leclerc leads the FP1 with an advantage of 0 “163 to Max Vrerstappen (th -2) and 0” 326 in Norris, along with the Albon’s Williams In the fourth position at 0 “350, Piastri on the 5th with the other McLaren on 0” 378, Russell on the 6th to half of the second, and Sainz on the 7th to 0 “570. Most equality -even above, even soon draws clear conclusions.

Maxwho suffered last year with a red bull with many slow curve problems, was not expected to be this “easier” At this time in Monaco, but the improvements introduced to Imola They allow you to move forward, especially to find the best setting in your car faster. See him -2th at the beginning of the Grand Prix, especially in MonacoIt can indicate how strong

For part of it, remains to see where the roof of McLaren. They are favorites again, but this year it has been shown that they can be vulnerable to a turn and to Monaco That is more than half a success. Norris and Piastri They couldn’t make mistakes, and at the moment, they didn’t find it comfortable in a session where everyone made it more than that these cars were, overwhelming and heavy, on the track of this mousetrap, it was very difficult to drive.

There are many scares between the walls

There are some perfect turns. The pilots began to take tracking measures and would be climped, approached and more on the walls to hold them but not kiss them for the rest of the weekend, knowing that any millimeter could be a thousand key. So far, the session has been very rugged and the list of presses, scares, release of some escaped and cut cuts are long.

Norris came out for the escape of Santa Devota, like Sainz. Vrstappen, lost the car and almost collapsed in the Bortoleto At the pool exit. Albon is about to take piastri past. Hadjar touched the interior of pool chicane, The same point where at the end of the session, Hamilton also made, lost control of his vehicle and passing a banana that literally fly in an action where English is lucky not to end against protections.

In addition, Lewis nearly ran into a badly placed alpine in climbing the casino and Piastri, the leader of the World Cup and one of the favorites in Monaco, held the wall with the left front tire. Perhaps that mistake prevented Oscar from starting to show the potential his vehicle expects, especially because of Chrono marked by the middle rubber.

Din Tsunana jumped on a piano And saw a blocked Norris Braking. Many will continue to polish two sessions that remain before capital classification.

SAINZ, FRIEND -7, AND ALONSO, THERE -10

Williams started well and Carlos Sainz was involved at the best for most of the session, even though Albon finally missed him, which was 5th and Carlos started the 7th place, half a second of the best. Williams, with great performance in slow curve and good traction, may be one of the candidates to give the bell classification Along with their two pilots, wishing a good result. This is just the beginning and Carlos should get confidence between the walls a little to try to go for a complex top-5 that doesn’t seem to be impossible.

Fernando Alonso warned before this event, on paper, “it was a difficult weekend” Because the main weakness of his vehicle at the beginning of the course was the slow curve. And Monaco is full. It is necessary to see how the car improved in that kind of turn along with the evolution of the ICOLA and Fernando said that, despite this, Q3 was possible because Monaco was a trusted track, sticking to the walls, taking risks and hands as well. And at the moment, In the absence of seeing how it emerged over the weekend, Fernando Alonso began to fulfill his goal to be among the 10 best with a 10th place.

Fernando stayed on 0 “763 of Best Chrono, only 7 thousand from Ferrari a Hamilton That began to disappear and with many scares, which is half the tenth of Gasly (Tho -8) already have two tenth of Sainz (Tho -7). While, Take a walkAfter his initial mess LeclercIt was last no longer monitoring.

However, the feeling that Fernando’s laps laps he started to take risks from the beginning and had to get tired of the car hard to lead to limitThat sometimes provides scares without warning that oversense needs to correct the method. Although, it is true that in these large cars, they all suffered. Adrian Newey, for his first time in the boxHe should help with his ideas so that he can improve the changes of adjustments.