00:01Here comes Kimi Räikkönen next, trying to get out of that driver-at-risk zone at the moment.
00:06He crosses the line, he goes 9th fastest, pushes Giovinazzi down into the danger zone.
00:11Might be comfortably the oldest man on the track, Kimi, but that was a great lap.
00:16It certainly was.
00:17Checkered flag is out.
00:19George Russell did not make the checkered flag to start another lap,
00:23so he stays down in 12th place.
00:25Giovinazzi goes 9th and he should be safely through to the next part of qualifying.
00:30Esteban Ocon gets out of the bottom five.
00:34He goes 10th fastest, puts Sebastian Vettel down there and in trouble as well.
00:37Mazepin improves in the middle sector.
00:39Can he keep that going as he rides the kerbs and bounces over that kerb on the exit of the
00:44swimming pool chicane?
00:46And now, with just two more corners to go, is looking to try and improve on that 19th spot.
00:52Get possibly out of Q1.
00:55No, he stays 19th, so we've lost both Haas drivers again.
00:59Tsunoda improves, but his first experience of qualifying in Monaco is only Q1.
01:03Fernando Alonso next to cross the line.
01:06Fernando Alonso, oh, is out.
01:09Alonso is out.
01:10He was seventh last time he came to Monaco.
01:12He's 17th on the grid in 2021.
01:16Nicolas Latifi is next to cross the line.
01:18He can't improve either.
01:19George Russell continues his record of out-qualifying a Williams teammate at every race together.
01:24The bottom five, Tsunoda, Alonso, Latifi, Mazepin and Schumacher.
01:29But Valtteri Bottas' quickest, Martin.
01:31There it is, a Mercedes fastest.
01:34Kimi Raikkonen, as you can see, personal best in the first sector.
01:38Matching Esteban Ocon and Antonio Giovinazzi as Leclerc goes fastest overall with a 1.10.5, and that'll please the
01:46Leclerc grandstand.
01:47Russell goes 13th fastest, but for how much longer?
01:51Not for long at all.
01:52Kimi Raikkonen now goes 11th fastest.
01:55He's just missed out, though, on getting into Q2.
01:59Antonio Giovinazzi, the driver at risk from those behind, including, of course, Esteban Ocon, who's next to cross the line.
02:06Ocon does seize the checkered flag, but only 11th fastest.
02:09And Ricciardo out. P12 for Daniel Ricciardo in the McLaren.
02:13Stroll will be next across the line of the bottom five and trying to get into the top ten to
02:18join his teammate, Sebastian Vettel.
02:20Across the line goes Lance Stroll.
02:22Was 14th, now 13th. Goes ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, but he's out of qualifying too.
02:27Daniel Ricciardo is going to be a very disappointed Australian tonight.
02:31Yeah, P12 on the grid. That's extremely bad news.
02:36Car just settling down nicely before the exit of the swimming pool.
02:40And again, that extended braking, crank the lock on.
02:43Look, he can pick the throttle up so, so early. The off-camber Antonino.
02:47Max Verstappen to the line then. Here's the time that they're all chasing. It's a 1-10-5-7-6.
02:54I think Verstappen's time is beatable if Ferrari hook a lap up. We're about to find out.
02:59Yeah, let's see with Charles Leclerc now, who's taken an extra lap then to prepare his tyres to warm it
03:04up.
03:05Carlos Sainz's teammate, meanwhile, 18-4 for the first part of the lap.
03:09He has found pace where Charles Leclerc didn't quite manage to hook it together
03:14as he got those tyres up to temperature a little better in their working range, I wonder.
03:18Yeah, they're just beginning to push the boundaries of the racetrack some more as well.
03:22The car didn't quite rotate as well and turn as nicely off the seafront chicane there.
03:28Not quite as close to the barrier for Charles Leclerc.
03:31What a middle sector that was.
03:33But it's neat and tidy. That so often happens. You don't have to wring its neck.
03:37Sometimes if you're just in the groove, you'll get the sector time.
03:41Seven poles in his career for Charles Leclerc. What a special pole this would be
03:44as he comes to the line now, crosses it, and moves fastest overall.
03:481.10.3. No time to celebrate yet. Seven and a half minutes to go in this session.
03:54Across the line next, Carlos Sainz, who had aced the middle sector,
03:57but then lost out a little bit to his teammate and goes third fastest.
04:01Lewis Hamilton only fifth fastest on his first run.
04:04And Sergio Perez just behind him in sixth.
04:07Seven tens off the pace. Three quarters of a second off the pace for Hamilton.
04:11New livery, of course, on the McLaren for this race.
04:14And how gorgeous does it look?
04:17Beautiful retro livery as they roll back the years
04:20and Lando Norris crosses the line and goes fifth fastest.
04:23Right-hand corner at to back. 110 miles an hour, maybe 115.
04:28Oh, no. That's too much kerb. Right.
04:30And you can see he might have rattled the Armco a little bit there.
04:33The catch fencing was vibrating. He ran into a traffic jam at the end of this lap.
04:38He very nearly got the rear end into the barrier at the final corner as well.
04:42Perez stays ninth fastest. Not a surprise.
04:45Yeah, that was a horrible lap for a number of reasons, wasn't it?
04:48Lots too much traffic, certainly. Lewis Hamilton now round the Lowe's hairpin.
04:53He's put in a 18.5. Oh, he's in the barriers.
04:56He's just tagged the barrier coming down from Poitier.
05:00Has managed to keep some forward speed.
05:01This is going to be a pretty bad qualifying session for Lewis Hamilton,
05:06unless he can pull something amazing out of the bag.
05:08He was 13th on the grid in 2017. He was 19th in 2009.
05:13At the moment, he's only seventh fastest.
05:16Lewis Hamilton is round to back.
05:18He goes where he once crashed in a race and went on to win it.
05:21Look at this. 3.5 tenths down.
05:23How often do we say that about Lewis Hamilton in qualifying? We don't.
05:26He's backed off again, so he'll... that was a scruffy lap.
05:29Verstappen, an 18.4 first sector. And look...
05:32Oh, and it's going to come to nothing for Max Verstappen.
05:35He might have been setting the pace, but Charles Leclerc, the man on pole, has gone into the barriers.
05:42The red flag has come out with only 18 seconds remaining. That is it for qualifying.
05:47Leclerc's on pole, but he's crashed and he's ended the session early.
05:51And the man who could deny him has been thwarted.
05:54Oh, he hit the barrier on the way and then broke his track rod, broke the steering arm and straight
05:59to the scene of the accident.
06:01So this is where... oh, he missed it by a long way, didn't he?
06:04And three wheels on his wagon, effectively. And just a little ski slope to help him on his way towards
06:10the barriers.
06:11But Leclerc, as it stands at the moment, does start on pole.
06:17Verstappen alongside him.
06:19Valtteri Bottas, third on the grid.
06:21Carlos Sainz will start alongside him on the second row.
06:25Lando Norris, brilliant qualifying, his best in Monaco, will start fifth ahead of Pierre Gasly.
06:30He was a tenth ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who starts seventh for this Monaco Grand Prix.
06:39Tsk in Monaco Grand Prix.
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