Charles Leclerc beats Oscar Piastri to take Monaco pole, Max Verstappen only sixth
Charles 🍸Leclerc beats McLaren's Oscar Piastri to claim his ❀third pole around Monaco.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc overcame a challenge from168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Oscar Piastri to claim pole position for his home race at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.
Home hero Leclerc f𒁃ollowed up his electrifying practice form and produced two laps gꦆood enough for the most important pole of the season as he edged McLaren’s Piastri to top qualifying around Monte Carlo’s famous streets by 0.154 seconds.
"It was nice. The feeling after a Qualifying lap is very special here. Really happy 🎃about the lap. The excitement is so high. It feels really good," Leclerc said after recording his third pole in Monaco.
"However, now I know more often than not in the past, that Qualifyi𒈔ng is not ꦗeverything.
"As much as ꦿit helps, we need to put everything together for Sunday's race. In thꦫe past here we didn't manage to do so, but we are in a stronger position and we are a stronger team. I'm sure we can achieve great things tomorrow and the win is the target."
Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz was third, just 0.248s off pole, while Land꧑o Norris pipped Mercedes’ George Russell♛ to fourth by 0.001s.
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen could only qualify sixth after clipping the bar🌜rier at Sa🃏inte Devote, a mistake which ruined his final flying lap and blew any hopes the Dutchman may have had of challenging for pole.
“I’ve hit the wall,” Verstappen reported over team radio. “Ah man, 🐠this car is slippery!”
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamil𝔍ton was 0.351s adrift in seventh, ahead of RB’s Yuki Tsunoda, Williams’ Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly, who impressed on his way to securing 10th in Alpine’s first Q3 appearance of the season.
Esteban Ocon could not make it two Alpines in the top-10 as he set the 11th-fastest time, ahead of Nico Hulkenb𓆉erg’s Haas and RB’s Daniel Ricciardo.
Lance Stroll was 14th, wit꧑h Kevin M🅘agnussen splitting the Aston Martin duo ahead of Fernando Alonso, who failed to progress out of Q1 and was a disappointing 16th.
Williams’ Logan Sargeant took 17th, while Serg𒁃io Perez suffered a qualifying nightmare and was dumped out in Q🔥1 for the second year in a row.
The Mexican stru𝓀ggled for pace throughout the opening session and set a time only good enough for 18th on the grid, ahead of the Sauber pa𒉰ir of Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Gunayu.
“What a joke!” a frust🔴rated Perez bemoaned over team radio.
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