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Racing Bulls faced a tense, last-minute scramble i

Racing Bulls faced a tense, last-minute scramble in Monaco after a technical problem hit Liam Lawson’s car around an hour before the start. Fresh off a season-strong P10 in qualifying and looking like a genuine points threat, Lawson was left waiting as the VCARB03 was hurried into the garage for an unspecified fix. The team got it turned around in time for the pit lane opening, and Lawson headed out for the recon laps, thanking the crew over the radio and vowing to make it count.

The scare also fits an uneasy 2026 trend: reliability failures surfacing at the worst possible moment. Hulkenberg’s Audi didn’t start in Australia, China saw multiple DNS issues across teams, and even Lawson’s team-mate Arvid Lindblad missed the start in Canada. In a midfield where clean weekends are everything — and in Monaco, where track position is king — simply making the grid is starting to feel like a victory of its own.

#F1 #MonacoGP #LiamLawson #RacingBulls #F1Reliability #MotorsportNews

Monaco never really settles down. After a qualifyi

Monaco never really settles down. After a qualifying session that already rewired the weekend, the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix heads into its harshest phase: 78 laps of precision, patience and constant risk, where one brush of the barrier or one impatient move can flip the order in an instant.

From lights out at 15:00 local time, it becomes a slow-burn chess match under pressure: leaders managing tyres and pace to deny undercuts, the midfield trapped in trains where clear air is everything, and pit walls living stop-to-release like a controlled panic. Passing is rare, so the race often turns on timing, traffic and the kind of Safety Car or red flag that can wreck the “safe” strategy in minutes. Survive qualifying and you’ve only done half the job.

#MonacoGP #F1 #Formula1 #Motorsport #MonteCarlo #RaceDay

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton saved their “adv

Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton saved their “advice” for Kimi Antonelli’s biggest weak spot: starts. In the post-qualifying photo op, Verstappen joked Antonelli should “wait one second” when the lights go out, with Hamilton piling on: “two seconds.” Everyone laughed, because the truth is louder than the punchline.

Antonelli has Monaco pole after edging Verstappen by 0.043s, making it five straight, yet he still hasn’t led into Turn 1 all season. Mercedes has already changed his clutch paddle and Toto Wolff has called it “not acceptable,” even as Antonelli insists he’s improving. In Monaco’s short run to Sainte Devote, that one moment is everything, with Verstappen sounding newly at ease in the Red Bull and Hamilton promising to apply pressure from the first metre. Pole is powerful here, but only if Antonelli nails the launch and keeps control as strategy and tyre unknowns creep in.

#F1 #MonacoGP #KimiAntonelli #MaxVerstappen #LewisHamilton #MercedesF1

Alpine sits fifth in the Constructors’ after five

Alpine sits fifth in the Constructors’ after five rounds and has 35 points on the board, but Flavio Briatore isn’t treating that as a breakthrough. For a factory team, he’s framing it as the minimum, because the bigger story is the pace: with the same power as McLaren and Mercedes, Alpine is still around six or seven tenths off in qualifying.

That’s why he’s shutting down the easy driver narrative. Pierre Gasly is signed through 2028, Franco Colapinto is in the seat via an option, and Briatore’s message is blunt: you can’t hire seven tenths. Even the very best might find two or three. If Alpine wants to close the gap, the focus has to be on the car and the operation around it — aero, pit stops, execution, development rate — while Colapinto continues under evaluation in the background.

#F1 #Alpine #PierreGasly #FrancoColapinto #FlavioBriatore #MotorsportNews

Chris McCarthy has explained his sudden absence fr

Chris McCarthy has explained his sudden absence from F1TV’s Monaco coverage, revealing he suffered an epileptic seizure shortly before Saturday’s Formula 2 Sprint race. After commentating through Thursday practice and Friday qualifying as normal, his voice was missing when F2 went live — and it wasn’t a planned change.

McCarthy was taken to hospital and later released the same day, saying he’s “all okay” but will sit out Sunday as well to rest and recover, with a return expected “soon”. Alex Brundle and Alice Powell stepped in to cover the junior-category booth, while Brundle and Karun Chandhok were among those sending public messages of support.

#F1TV #F2 #F3 #MonacoGP #Motorsport #Formula2

Max Verstappen struck a notably calm tone in Monac

Max Verstappen struck a notably calm tone in Monaco as F1’s 2027 engine debate rumbles on, saying he trusts the FIA to “make the right call” for the sport. After months of warning the 2026 rules could push racing too far into energy management, he’s now framing the issue as governance — and praising the FIA/F1 for finally bringing drivers into more open discussions.

The flashpoint is the FIA’s agreement-in-principle idea to shift the power split toward 60-40 combustion vs electric for 2027, but a supermajority is needed and Ferrari and Audi are resisting. Ferrari’s concern centres on how the ADUO development scheme would work under the cost cap, while Audi says it’s open in principle but wants a slower ramp, citing development and budget realities. Red Bull, Mercedes and Honda are understood to be open to changes despite the late timing, as F1 tries to protect the racing product without undermining confidence in the rules process.

#F1 #MaxVerstappen #Ferrari #AudiF1 #FIA #F12027

Williams left Monaco qualifying with a €5,000 fine

Williams left Monaco qualifying with a €5,000 fine and a formal warning after a pit-lane shuffle that nearly turned nasty. With Carlos Sainz stopped outside the garage for tyres, Alex Albon queued behind — but in Monaco’s tight lane that positioning briefly blocked Racing Bulls’ Arvid Lindblad from reaching his box, forcing him to jink around Albon and a Williams mechanic. The stewards said Lindblad “narrowly missed running over the foot” of the mechanic, ruling Williams had obstructed Car 41.

There’s no grid penalty, so Albon keeps a season-best P11 (ahead of Sainz in P12) while Lindblad starts 15th. Still, the warning lands as the key message: Monaco’s pit lane punishes improvisation, and this time Williams got away with a cheap lesson because nobody was hurt.

#F1 #MonacoGP #WilliamsRacing #AlexAlbon #CarlosSainz #PitLaneSafety

Williams’ 2026 started with a self-inflicted hole:

Williams’ 2026 started with a self-inflicted hole: chassis issues cost an early test, the FW48 arrived overweight, and the first “upgrades” were about shedding kilos rather than adding performance. Only now is the team able to chase lap time normally, and that lost time matters in a cost-cap era where the calendar doesn’t wait.

That backdrop is shaping Carlos Sainz’s future. There’s an exit clause in his deal, and while James Vowles says their conversations have been blunt and honest, the real pitch is results: Williams believes it has diagnosed what went wrong, put safeguards in place, and used the setback to drive wider changes. Sainz has called Williams his priority and wants to stay on the project, but with the team eighth after five races and Sainz scoring six of seven points, the decision will come down to one thing: visible progress, race by race.

#F1 #WilliamsRacing #CarlosSainz #JamesVowles #Formula1 #F1News

Kimi Antonelli delivered when it mattered most, fi

Kimi Antonelli delivered when it mattered most, firing in a late flyer to take pole for the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix and hand Mercedes a huge statement at the sharp end of the title fight. Max Verstappen starts alongside on the front row, with Ferrari locking out the second row as Lewis Hamilton takes P3 ahead of Charles Leclerc in P4.

The big sting for Mercedes is on the other side of the garage: George Russell could only manage sixth on a circuit where track position is everything. Isack Hadjar’s rebound from a Friday crash to P5 keeps him right in the mix, while McLaren faces a tougher climb with Oscar Piastri P7 and Lando Norris P8. Gasly starts ninth for Alpine, Lawson completes the top 10 for Racing Bulls, and Aston Martin endured a brutal session with Alonso 21st and Stroll 22nd.

#MonacoGP #F1 #Mercedes #Verstappen #Ferrari #Qualifying

BYD’s interest in Formula 1 is getting harder to d

BYD’s interest in Formula 1 is getting harder to dismiss after vice-president Stella Li spent the Monaco GP weekend in direct talks with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem. In the paddock, the company’s scale makes it a credible name, but there’s real scepticism about how close BYD is to having the motorsport infrastructure to do anything beyond research, branding and relationship-building.

The timing is no accident. As F1 debates what comes after 2026 and the FIA floats a potential shift toward a simpler, more combustion-heavy engine formula, BYD is positioning its battery, power electronics and materials know-how as relevant even if electrification is toned down. Li also wouldn’t define what “entering F1” means—new team, buying in, or a tech partnership remain on the table—and she’s already spoken with Christian Horner about possible collaboration. For now, BYD isn’t chasing Formula E; it’s showing up where F1’s next decade is being negotiated, aiming to be part of the conversation before the doors officially open.

#F1 #Formula1 #BYD #MonacoGP #FIA #MotorsportNews

Ferrari rolled into Monaco looking like the class

Ferrari rolled into Monaco looking like the class of the field, with the SF-26 sharp and confidence-inspiring through Friday on a circuit built around downforce and commitment. Then qualifying flipped the script: Kimi Antonelli put his Mercedes on pole ahead of Max Verstappen, while Lewis Hamilton salvaged P3 and Charles Leclerc ended up P4 after a barrier brush on his final run.

Hamilton’s verdict was stark. He said the Ferrari felt like a different car in qualifying, with the balance shifting as early as Q1 and a rear end that suddenly disappeared, forcing big wing changes just to get back into a workable window. The frustration is that Ferrari believes it only made tiny tweaks, not the kind of setup swing that explains a collapse in feel. Hamilton still starts in the fight in a race where track position is everything, but Ferrari’s bigger task is finding what changed overnight — because at Monaco, being beaten is one thing. Being surprised by your own car is another.

#F1 #MonacoGP #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #CharlesLeclerc #KimiAntonelli

Kimi Antonelli delivered a Monaco qualifying maste

Kimi Antonelli delivered a Monaco qualifying masterclass when it mattered, nailing a 1:12.051 to take pole for Mercedes by just 0.043s over Max Verstappen. It was a session decided by preparation, traffic management and tiny margins, with Antonelli keeping his cool even after a black-and-white warning as the track evolved.

Behind them, Lewis Hamilton slots into P3, while Charles Leclerc’s final charge ended in the barriers at Tabac, leaving him P4 and Ferrari facing repairs. Monaco chaos hit early too: Bortoleto’s Q1 crash brought out the red flag, Lawson stopped at the pit exit and several big names fell at the first hurdle, while a Verstappen/Sainz pit-lane near-miss added to the drama. Hadjar impressed in P5, Russell is sixth, and the McLarens start seventh and eighth.

#F1 #MonacoGP #Qualifying #Mercedes #Verstappen #Leclerc

Monaco qualifying delivered its usual knife-edge t

Monaco qualifying delivered its usual knife-edge tension, sharpened further by Gabriel Bortoleto’s late Q1 crash and the red flag that forced everyone into frantic timing. Around here it’s never pure pace, it’s rhythm, traffic management, and how close you dare lean on the barriers.

Ferrari took the headline as Charles Leclerc led the session, with Max Verstappen close enough to keep the pressure firmly on. Kimi Antonelli impressed again by putting Mercedes third, while McLaren came away solid but slightly scrappy with Lando Norris fourth and Oscar Piastri seventh. Lewis Hamilton backed up Ferrari’s threat in fifth, Nico Hülkenberg starred with sixth for Audi, and Williams doubled up in the top 10 with Alex Albon ninth and Carlos Sainz tenth. Further back it was a bruising day for Aston Martin and a tough one for Cadillac, and the Monaco rule remains unchanged: the walls always have the final say.

#MonacoGP #F1 #Qualifying #Ferrari #Verstappen #MotorsportNews

Ferrari rolled into Monaco as the obvious favourit

Ferrari rolled into Monaco as the obvious favourite, and Friday backed it up: a red-car 1-2 in both sessions, with Charles Leclerc quickest in FP1 before Lewis Hamilton hit back in FP2 with a 1:13.026 to edge Leclerc by a tenth. With Max Verstappen close and the top three split by under two-tenths, this is already shaping up as a qualifying-first weekend.

But the tension is internal. Leclerc arrives fresh off a contract extension and carrying the weight of his home race, while Hamilton looks immediately comfortable enough to turn Monaco into a mental battle as well as a lap-time one. Leclerc admitted Ferrari is fighting brake issues on his side and said his confidence “is not at the highest level,” after two offs at Mirabeau. In Monaco, that’s exactly the opening Hamilton will want, and exactly what Ferrari can’t afford as they chase their first win since 2024.

#F1 #MonacoGP #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #CharlesLeclerc #Formula1

Kimi Antonelli left Monaco FP3 with the kind of la

Kimi Antonelli left Monaco FP3 with the kind of lap that sticks: one early, clean soft-tyre run in traffic, then a 1:12.720 that stayed untouchable as the session slid toward the usual red-flag chaos. Ferrari’s Friday form faded into frustration as Charles Leclerc (1:13.047) and Lewis Hamilton (1:13.051) couldn’t stitch it together when it mattered most.

The hour was messy and tense — brake issues for Bottas and Perez, wall brushes, Colapinto backing into the barrier, and a late red flag after Bearman clipped the barrier at Massenet. With no improvements in the final scramble, Antonelli’s “ghost lap” stood ahead of Leclerc, Hamilton, Russell and Verstappen, setting a clear warning before qualifying: bank it early, or chase shadows.

#MonacoGP #F1 #Mercedes #Ferrari #KimiAntonelli #FP3

Saturday morning in Monaco isn’t “just” practice.

Saturday morning in Monaco isn’t “just” practice. FP3 is the 60-minute dress rehearsal that shapes the rest of the weekend: build rhythm early, get a clean banker on the board, then the session inevitably sharpens into quiet qualifying sims once the track rubbers in. One red flag or a compromised lap in traffic can wipe out the only thing teams really need before parc fermé locks the direction in.

Around these walls it’s all commitment versus consequence. Drivers are judging braking points off shadows and paint, teams are choosing set-up trade-offs they can live with, and everyone’s watching the same tells: who’s brushing the barriers, who’s leaving margin, and who already looks like they’re driving for pole. FP3 starts at 12:30 local time, with qualifying later today.

#F1 #MonacoGP #MonteCarlo #FP3 #Motorsport #Formula1

McLaren’s Monaco Friday unravelled fast: Lando Nor

McLaren’s Monaco Friday unravelled fast: Lando Norris’ FP2 ended after barely 10 minutes when his car suffered an electrical shutdown exiting the tunnel and stopped at the Nouvelle Chicane. The team confirmed an electrical fault and broke curfew overnight to fix it, replacing the wiring harness and swapping the ESME pack in a late scramble that echoes recent ERS headlines elsewhere in the Mercedes-powered family.

As if the lost running wasn’t enough, McLaren also landed a €30,000 FIA fine after covering the clutch disengagement system button with transparent tape “for aerodynamic purposes”. Stewards ruled it compromised a safety device meant to be operated quickly by marshals, with €10,000 of the penalty suspended for 12 months. A messy, expensive start to a weekend where rhythm is everything.

#F1 #MonacoGP #McLaren #LandoNorris #FIA #MotorsportNews

Ferrari walked out of Friday in Monaco looking eve

Ferrari walked out of Friday in Monaco looking every bit the favourites, with Charles Leclerc leading a 1-2 in both sessions and Lewis Hamilton setting the FP2 benchmark. The Scuderia’s low-speed grip and traction are translating where it counts on these streets, but nobody in red is pretending there’s a cushion heading into qualifying.

The bigger shift is Red Bull: Max Verstappen ended both sessions third and, crucially, looked comfortable. After arriving wary of Monaco’s bumps and kerbs, he sounded like a driver fine-tuning details rather than searching for a reset. In a place where confidence is lap time and the wall is always waiting, Ferrari’s Friday authority now comes with a clear warning: Verstappen is close enough to threaten an upset.

#F1 #MonacoGP #Ferrari #RedBullRacing #Verstappen #Leclerc

Lewis Hamilton doesn’t hand out big compliments li

Lewis Hamilton doesn’t hand out big compliments lightly, so his Monaco line about finding an “Italian Bono” at Ferrari matters. He says his new radio partnership with engineer Carlo Santi, following Ferrari’s winter reshuffle, has finally brought the calm, detailed driver-engineer rhythm he had with Pete Bonnington at Mercedes.

After a 2025 season where the pairing with Riccardo Adami never truly clicked and radio friction became a theme, Hamilton credits Fred Vasseur for building a better working environment and reacting fast to what wasn’t functioning. He says Ferrari has already delivered changes he pushed for in simulator work, including suspension, while stressing there’s still ground to make up. The biggest upgrade, though, might be process: fewer crossed wires, clearer feedback loops, and a pit wall that fits how he extracts performance.

#F1 #LewisHamilton #Ferrari #ScuderiaFerrari #MonacoGP #FredVasseur

Flavio Briatore says he’d welcome Christian Horner

Flavio Briatore says he’d welcome Christian Horner at Alpine if Horner is part of a consortium bidding for Otro Capital’s 24% stake, stressing their long-standing relationship and insisting he won’t be a barrier. But Briatore also makes clear he doesn’t know if Horner is involved, and that the headlines are running ahead of the process.

The reality is that Renault, as majority owner, holds the veto and effectively controls what that minority stake is worth. With Otro reportedly chasing a valuation north of $620m after buying in for around $215m in 2023, Briatore calls the politics and pricing hard to square without Renault’s agreement. Add sale restrictions running to September (unless accelerated) and the failed Mercedes interest, and the takeaway is simple: any deal only happens with Renault’s blessing.

#F1 #AlpineF1Team #Renault #ChristianHorner #FlavioBriatore #Formula1

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