#F1 #MonacoGP Qualifying: @CharlesLeclerc storms to home pole position.
Local favourite Charles Leclerc, #16, Scuderia Ferrari, SF-24, celebrating after taking his 25th-career pole position in Qualifying at the Formula 1 Grand Prix De Monaco 2024, Circuit De Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Image credit to Mark Thompson/Getty Images. Leclerc Monaco GP Pole, 2024 Monaco GP Qualifying, F1 Monaco GP Qualifying Monaco GP Qualifying Results, 2024 Formula 1 Monaco GP Qualifying Results.
Leclerc Monaco GP Pole – Home favourite Charles Leclerc stormed to his 25th-career pole position in qualifying at the Monaco GP ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri by 0.184 seconds and his Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz who completed the top three by 0.248 seconds.
In Q3, the initial flyers saw Leclerc hold provisional pole scoring two personal bests in sectors one and two with a purple sector three to post the benchmark of a 1:10.418 and was a slim 0.026 seconds quicker than Piastri whilst Verstappen posted the best opening sector and two personal bests to end up 0.149 seconds off the Monegasque driver in third.
In the final hot-laps, Leclerc posted two personal bests in the opening two sectors and a purple sector three once more to improve with a blistering 1:10.270 effort to take pole position and team’s 250th in the sport by 0.154 seconds over Piastri as the former’s team-mate Sainz improved to third and ended up 0.248 seconds adrift.
The other McLaren of Lando Norris made a late improvement to qualify fourth and in-front of Mercedes’ George Russell who was fifth and championship leader Max Verstappen who hit the wall on his final flying tour to wound up sixth.
The second Mercedes F1 W15 entry of Sir Lewis Hamilton occupied seventh on the grid and ahead of RB’s Yuki Tsunoda who took eighth as Williams’ Alexander Albon and Alpine’s Pierre Gasly completed the top ten.
In the middle segment, which was topped by Norris, a late improvement saw Gasly eliminate his Alpine team-mate Esteban Ocon to get into the top ten shootout meaning the latter will start the Monaco Grand Prix in 11th and the Frenchman just missed out on a Q3 appearance by a very slim 0.069 seconds.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team’s Nico Hulkenberg took 12th and in-front of RB’s Daniel Ricciardo who was 13th.
Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll and the other Haas VF-24 of Kevin Magnussen were the slowest of the Q2 runners in 14th and 15th respectively.
In the opening qualifying stage, which was topped by Russell, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was the quickest of the Q1 eliminatees and missed out on a Q2 appearance by 0.132 seconds wounding up 16th.
Williams Racing’s Logan Sargeant qualified for the Monaco GP 17th and in-front of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez who ended up the shock elimination of the session and a low-18th.
Sauber pairing Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu brought up the rear.
You can see the full Formula 1 Grand Prix De Monaco 2024 Qualifying Results Classification at the link: https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2024/races/1236/monaco/qualifying.html
2024 Monaco GP Qualifying – The Top Three
2024 Monaco GP Pole Position – Charles Leclerc, #16, Scuderia Ferrari, SF-24 – 1:10.270:
“It was nice, the feeling after a qualifying lap is always special here. The excitement is so high, really happy with the lap. Now, I know more often than not qualifying is not everything here. It helps but we need to put everything together for Sunday, but we are a stronger team so we will. I need a great launch, hopefully Carlos can follow me through, and we can be 1-2 which will be an ideal scenario.”
2nd Place – Oscar Piastri, #81, McLaren Formula 1 Team-Mercedes, MCL38 – +0.154s:
“If you took the second half of my first lap in Q3 and the first half of my second one, it would have been enough. But credit to Charles, he’s been incredibly quick all weekend, at times no one thought they’d get close to him. [Tomorrow] a good start always helps, if you can get into the lead, you can control it but if not, a good strategy.”
3rd Place – Carlos Sainz, #55, Scuderia Ferrari, SF-24 – +0.248s:
“I think overall it was an improvement for me, as I’ve been struggling all weekend with the confidence in the car. Not entirely happy as I wish I could have been fighting for pole, but Charles has been doing an amazing job. Yesterday, I looked very quick on the long runs so I’m confident tomorrow that the pace will be good, but it’s Monaco – anything can happen. We’ll give it our best shot.”
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