The crown jewel of the Formula 1 calendar has arrived.
The Monaco Grand Prix.
In the streets of Monte Carlo, the Monaco Grand Prix offers some of the most impressive images of the F1 season. Among the reference points that dot the circuit and the yachts that are aligned in the port, the event has become synonymous with sport, and the date on which each team and pilot circulates in the calendar when the schedule is announced.
However, the careers of itself? As we will discuss in a moment, that has become a kind of interrogation sign.
Here are the key stories for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.
A fight for the title, renewed
The winning streak of Oscar Piastri: The Australian pilot won victories in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Miami, took its total to four Grands Prix Wins in the season, and led some to wonder with Winday.
With apologies to Lee Corso, not so fast, friend.
While Piastri did enough on Saturday to take the Pole Position for the Romagna Grand Prix of Emilia, Max Verstappen broke out of the McLaren pilot in the return in the first race race to take the front shortly after the start, the Red Bull survived a couple.
That, along with a P2 of Lando Norris, saw Piastri’s advantage over his McLaren teammate cut only 13 points, with Verstappen attracting only 22 points behind.
Red Bull brought an update package to Icola, one that had Dr. Helmut Marko, who seemed to be dejected sometimes this year with the RB21 performance, anything but after Emilia Romagna’s Grand Prix.
“We brought several new parts here,” Marko said after Icola. “I think we were equally better than McLaren. We were simply faster.
“This is the first time in a year that updates have had a positive effect on the car. I am happy and we go to Monaco next week with great confidence.”
Game on.
Life signs in Ferrari?
Just after the Miami Grand Prix, which saw Charles Leclerc ended up the seventh and Lewis Hamilton finished eighth, the seven -time pilot champion did everything possible to remain optimistic. “In general, I had a good day in general,” Begen Hamilton speaking with the media, including SB nationAfter the Miami Grand Prix. “Eighth does not really seem like that, but I feel optimistic for the future.
“I think this car really has performance.”
However, the gloomy classification effort on Saturday, both Leclerc and Hamilton were eliminated in the second quarter, both drivers had oppressed later.
“[I’m] Very disappointed, special at home, in such a special prize for the team, it only hurts, “Leclerc told the official F1 channel. I have no words about our performance today.”
“Hard. Sky Sports F1. “I really feel that we had taken so many positive steps over the weekend. The car usually felt better, the brakes were better today, the balance was really pleasant.
“In the Q2, executing one felt decent, and then, when we put on the new tires, for some I had no grip and I could not go faster.”
But that optimism returned on Sunday, rather from Hamilton, since both drivers became the points. Leclerc managed to finish sixth while Hamilton went up to P4, at a time threatening a podium.
Now the seven -time pilot champion is thinking that Ferrari can fight on the front.
“Let’s keep pressing,” Hamilton said on the radio while taking the checkered flag. “If we can get that better rating and we can compete like this, then we will be winning.”
Speaking to the media, Hamilton said he was “ecstatic” with the result.
“It felt very well finally obtaining the correct configuration and having that link with the car through the race,” he said that Sky Sports F1. “I am ecstatic. I would have a great bone to have had more turns and challenges for a stage.”
Has Ferrari really found something?
The new rules of Monaco Grand Prix
This season, the governing agency of F1 confirmed a new set of rules for this year’s Monaco Grand Prix.
To try to improve the race itself, which has become a procession in recent years with the advancement that becomes almost impossible, sport demands two boxes in boxes for each pilot. In a statement published in February, the FIA said that in an effort aimed at “improving the sports show of this career the notable difficulty of getting ahead in this circuit”, drivers now request to use pneumatic tire derryts. Including.
Will this improve or simply update chaos?
Speaking in Miami, many drivers expressed some skepticism, noting that you could simply face in the first round, then today in the second round for a set of hard tires, and run to the end.
This is almost what happened last year, an accident in the opening return pulled the red flag, carrying the grid through the pit lane while the race stopped. Everyone ran hard tires, and most of the finalists of the points were left out for the rest of the race, following Charles Leclerc, who finally tried a house victory.
Hamilton and Verstappen were the only points scorers who made a second stop in boxes.
I asked Alexander Albon about the change of rule recently, and expressed a certain skepticism that the new rule will improve the careers.
“The cars are getting bigger, but the circuit remains the same, so I think the overtaking will always be complicated until the regulations change,” Albon said.
We will discover it with certainty this week.
Can Williams keep your streak alive?
Speaking of Albon …
Williams left Jeddah after the Grandbia of Saudi Arabia in fifth place in the classification with 25 points, thanks to a P8 by Carlos Sainz Jr. and a P9 of Albon. That puts five points ahead of the sixth place.
They go to Monaco still in fifth place, but now with 51 points in the year, which has them 31 points ahead of sixth place.
The team has secured a double point of points on two consecutive weekends, first in Miami and then last week in Isola. Sainz finished ninth in Miami and eighth in Icola, while Albon has delivered consecutive P5 results.
While Sainz has expressed a certain frustration with the way things have developed for him the last two career Sundays, the fact is that Williams is fighting in the front of the center of the field and pressing Botes and Ferrari with his rhythm.
Can you keep that in Mónaco?
Who wins on Saturday?
As noted above, the Monaco Grand Prix has become a fairly boring matter, due to the difficult nature to overcome in the narrow streets of Monte Carlo.
Which means you want to win the crown jewel of season F1, you must win on Saturday.
In just ten races since 1950 he has a pilot won despite starting lower than the third. The last time it happened in 1996 when Olivier Panis won despite starting P14. That race also made some history, since it has the record of the F1 race with the least number of finalists. Only Panis Podio, David Caulthard and Johnny Herbert scorers finished the race.
But he usually speaks, if you want to win the Monaco Grand Prix, you must win on Sunday.
