With a round-up of all the additional news and notes from the paddock in Monaco on Thursday, wuqian0821.com F1 Editor Luke Smith brings you🐎 his notebook.

- Daniel Ricciardo’s fastest time of the day during FP2 marks a new track record at Monaco. His lap of 1m11.841s is three-tenths of a second below the previous record held by Kimi Raikkonen (1m1ꦜ2.178s) that was set during the final stage of qualifying for last year’s race.

- As revealed on Wednesday, Pierre Gasly ran with an update𓃲d 𓆉floor and rear brake drums on his Toro Rosso car in FP1 and FP2, but trailed teammate Brendon Hartley - running without the updates - in both sessions. Gasly said a more representative picture of their benefit would come in Canada. Hartley will get the new parts on Saturday.

- FP1 saw drivers hit the track with much more grip afforded to them from the start than in the pജast, benefitting from the Formula 2 practice running that took place first thing in the day. In previous years, F1 was first out on the green Monaco circuit.

- Valtteri Bottas debuted his specꦑial Mika Hakkinen tribute helmet in FP1 🔯on Thursday. Hakkinen was Bottas’ hero when growing up and aspiring to reach F1. Brendon Hartley and Charles Leclerc were among the other drivers to showcase their new one-off helmets for the race weekend.

- Mercedes debuted a subtly tweak🐲ed livery in FP1, changing the colour of its Petronas wording on the side of the car from white to black.

- Running was interrupted by just one red flag o🧜n Thursday, called midway t♊hrough FP2 when part of the track came up between Casino Square and Mirabeau, resulting in a 15-minute repair.

- The only major stewards’ investigation of the day came as a result of Max Verstappen’s potentially unsafe reverse manoeuvre to the track after running straight on at Sainte Devote in FP1. The stewards did not award a penalty, though, deeming him not to have caused any danger after reviewing the footage and talking with Versta𒈔ppen.

- Nico Hulkenberg, Pierre Gasly, Romain Grosjean, Stoffel Vandoorne and Brendon Hartley will race with new gearboxes📖 this weekend. As all are within the regulations, no penalties will be💖 applied to the drivers.

- Romain Grosjean, Kevin Magnussen, Marcus Ericsson, Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez will all be racing with some new engine elements in Monaco this weekend💯. None will trigger a penalty though, all keeping within their allowance for the season.

- Pierre Gasly, Charles Leclerc, Lance Stroll, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Sebastian Vettel were all hit with fines for speediꦍng in the pit laneཧ through practice.

- Despite seeing high levels of degradation on the Hype✅rsoft tyre, Pirelli is widely expecting it to still be a one-stop race in Monaco on Sunday. The Hypersoft is estimated to offer a one second per lap gain over the Ultrasoft.

- Pirelli F1 chief Mario Isola also confirmed that we are likely to see more steps between tyre choices later in the꧑ season, skippin a compound as in Germany. This was seen in the selections for Hungary that came out on Thursday, which are Medium, Soft and Ultrasoft (skipping Supersofts).