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The Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco 2025, won on Sunday by Lando Norris (McLaren), has completely revived the World Championship, as well as generating huge popular enthusiasm around the drivers, and especially local hero Charles Leclerc (2nd).
‘We weren’t very optimistic because of our car’s difficulties in the slow corners this season,’ Leclerc recalled in the press conference, ‘so to take 2nd place is still a good result. Even if I can never be satisfied with 2nd place,’ added the Ferrari driver, who has been in great demand all week. His team-mate, Lewis Hamilton (5th), who knows the Monaco circuit perfectly, was also positive: ‘It’s the best car I’ve ever had here in Monaco’.
‘In Monaco, we know that the final classification is often the same as in qualifying, so it’s good to be here again because I had a very complicated start to the weekend. I didn’t feel comfortable in the car, I was struggling to find the right balance’, explained Oscar Piastri, still leader of the World Championship without ever having been able to join the fight for pole position on Saturday or victory on Sunday.
Three points between Piastri and Norris
The main consequence of this weekend in Monaco, round 8 of the 2025 championship, is that the title race is back on track in several respects. Not only has Norris come back to within three points of his Australian team-mate, who has won twice as often as him in 2025 (4 wins to 2), but the main thing is elsewhere. The young Englishman showed twice in 24 hours that he was stronger than some people thought or said.
Norris set a fantastic time at the best moment, at the end of Q3, to break the track record that had stood since 2019 (Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes). He followed that up with a perfect start at 3pm on Sunday, then put up a great fight at the end of the race when he was being slowed by Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and his Pirelli tyres were deteriorating rapidly.
‘I could see that Max was waiting for a red flag to win and that he was going to wait until the last moment to change tyres a second time. I couldn’t stay too close to him, so I was under threat from Charles. It worked out well and it’s doubly satisfying for me to have taken pole position on Saturday and to have managed to win this Grand Prix on Sunday, which I dreamt of winning when I was a kid,’ said the young Englishman about his 6th F1 victory, his second in 2025.
Ferrari 28 – Mercedes 0, game on!
The other championship revival came in the Constructors’ World Championship, with Scuderia Ferrari taking 28 points back from Mercedes on Sunday, who completely blew their Monaco stopover. And since Verstappen, however strong he is, is the only driver to score for Red Bull Racing every weekend, anything remains possible in the race for the teams’ world title, far behind McLaren, with six wins from eight races.
Finally, in the symbolic battle for the title of best rookie, Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) took points away from Italian prodigy Kimi Antonelli. Fifth on the grid, thanks to Hamilton’s penalty, the young Frenchman took 6th place, first of the ‘others’, one lap behind the top teams, and didn’t make the slightest mistake on such a demanding track that is unforgiving of anyone. That’s very encouraging, as is most of what he’s been doing since the start of the season.
Finally, a word about the MGP Fan Zone. It was packed every day, and thousands of fans watched the drivers exploits for free on the giant screen in the Place d’Armes. Meanwhile, in the paddock, a host of VIPs also enjoyed their Monaco weekend, including Naomi Campbell, Zinédine Zidane, Kylian Mbappé, Antoine Dupont and businessmen Bernard Arnault (LVMH) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon). It was a weekend of sport and festivities, lit up by a host of goodies.
There will be lots of other occasions in the coming years, because the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco contract, once again perfectly organised by Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM) behind the scenes, and superbly managed by its volunteer stewards on the track, has been renewed for several years.
Join us from 4 to 7 June 2026 for the 83rd edition of the most legendary of Grand Prix events. Stay tuned for information on the opening of the Ticket Office.
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During the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Monaco Grand Prix, the Scuderia Ferrari driver presented a trophy to the Volunteer of the Year, awarded to Jean-Luc Filippi. Filippi was congratulated for all his work with the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM).
He is known as the Doc, but also as Professor Tournesol. For several decades, Jean-Luc Filippi has worked on the various ACM events, sometimes on the road of the Rallye Monte-Carlo, sometimes alongside the track. But that’s not all. In particular, he is the inventor of the Crash Training Car (CTC), a high-tech single-seater programmed to train marshals during the traditional training camp with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
This volunteer, who is much appreciated by his peers, was named Volunteer of the Year and presented with a trophy designed by the creator of Antoine le Pilote, Yvon Amiel. And who better to present him with this figurine than local hero Charles Leclerc?
The ceremony took place in the presence of the Monegasque driver and Jean-Luc Filippi, just before the drivers’ parade at 1pm. It was a warm moment, which will remain in the memory of the Doc, who is certainly already thinking about his next invention to help the Automobile Club de Monaco.
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He didn’t crack, he held off Charles Leclerc in his Ferrari to the very end! Lando Norris, who started from pole position, won the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco on Sunday, handing McLaren its first victory since 2008 on the streets of the Principality, the 16th overall for the British team in Monaco since Alain Prost in 1984.
Leclerc the Monegasque, who was playing at home, tried everything he could, right to the end, to defend his title and thwart the predictions in favour of the poleman, but Norris never gave him the slightest hope, or the slightest opening, and the podium was completed by another McLaren driver, Oscar Piastri, who remains at the top of the World Championship with a 3-point margin over Norris.
‘It’s a childhood dream come true,’ said Norris as he stepped out of his orange single-seater, before making his way up to the princely box to receive a gold medal from HSH Princess Charlene of Monaco, and the beautiful trophy which he will be able to carry in a trunk donated by the LVMH group.
Norris could be proud of his 6th win in F1, his second this season after Melbourne, having had a very tough time watching with Piastri’s four wins in 2025, including three in a row between the end of March and the beginning of May (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Miami). He took ten points more this weekend than his Australian team-mate, in one go, and completely revived the championship, as there is now only a three-point gap between the two McLaren drivers (Piastri 161, Norris 158).
Leclerc’s fans hoped for a win all the way, as the Ferrari of the local hero, on medium Pirelli tyres, finished on the heels of the McLaren, on hard tyres, slowed down until two laps from the end by Max Verstappen (Red Bull). The four-time Dutch world champion, who started 4th, finished 4th having adopted a different strategy, based on stopping as late as possible to change tyres (medium then hard) and hoping for a red flag to interrupt the proceedings.
Hadjar 6th for Racing Bulls
There was no red flag, in particular because the rest of the field drove slowly behind Carlos Sainz (Williams) for a long time, and because the Racing Bulls of Isack Hadjar (6th), who had made his two compulsory stops very early on, and Liam Lawson, who was very consistent from start to finish, were never able to take advantage when the safety car came out. It was a gamble on race incidents, as for Verstappen, but it did not succeed.
This gamble had the merit of maintaining some sort of suspense, whereas Mercedes did not attempt anything at all. George Russell and Kimi Antonelli had missed their qualifying sessions, they also missed their race, finishing 11th and 18th, outside the points. While former Mercedes leader Lewis Hamilton took 5th place after another faultless race, having started 7th because of a 3-places penalty for getting in Verstappen’s way during qualifying.
We’ll remember this 82nd edition as a very intense event from start to finish, from Friday to Sunday, but that the two compulsory stops made absolutely no difference. They could have been useful, to spice up the show, if the Safety Car had come out of the pits. It remained quietly parked in the pitlane, after having been in great demand all morning, due to the pile-ups in the Formula 2 and Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup races. Everyone will meet again next week in Barcelona, for the 9th round of the 2025 Formula 1 season.
🏆 LANDO NORRIS WINS THE FORMULA 1 TAG HEUER GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2025 🏆
The British claims his first win around the streets of the Principality 🇲🇨🙌
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🏆 LANDO NORRIS REMPORTE LE FORMULA 1 TAG HEUER GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2025 🏆
L’Anglais glane sa première victoire dans les… pic.twitter.com/VJbsB3pSqL
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 25, 2025
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As was the case earlier in the morning in F2, the drivers entered in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, the only one-make category of the weekend, saw their race interrupted just a few seconds after the start. An impressive pile-up, caused by the collision between Marvin Klein (Lechner Racing) and Keagan Masters (Ombra Racing), required the intervention of the stewards and circuit technicians.
This third race of the day, the last before the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco, should have lasted 17 laps. However, following a twenty-minute neutralisation, it was cut short to 4 laps only.
This was due to another pile-up, as in the main F2 race, caused by the accident between Marvin Klein and Keagan Masters just after the Sainte Dévote bend. In the process, the two drivers caused two other collateral victims: Dutch drivers Wouter Boerekamps (GP Elite) and Jaap van Lagen (Proton Huber Competition).
After an interruption of almost half an hour, allowing the track marshals to do their job quickly and the technicians from the Monegasque company Polymétal to repair the rail damaged by the impact, the German cars took to the track behind the safety car for a flying start.
They had just 3 laps left in the race, before the chequered flag was lowered. Dutch poleman Robert de Haan (BWT Lechner Racing) won ahead of Germany’s Theo Oeverhaus (Proton Huber Competition) and young Frenchman Alessandro Ghiretti (Schumacher CLRT). ‘A victory is a victory’, said the winner, very happy, on his onboard radio.
🏆 VICTORY FOR ROBERT DE HAAN IN PORSCHE MOBIL 1 SUPERCUP RACE 🏆
Theo Oeverhaus finishes 2nd and Alessandro Ghiretti completes podium in 3rd 🙌
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🏆 VICTOIRE POUR ROBERT DE HAAN EN PORSCHE MOBIL 1 SUPERCUP 🏆
Theo Oeverhaus termine en 2e position alors que Alessandro… pic.twitter.com/VZFcEUjsu6
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 25, 2025
Jak Crawford pulled off the perfect hold-up at the end of the FIA Formula 2 Championship Feature Main Race on Sunday, thanks to a strategic move by his French team, DAMS Lucas Oil. The Briton beat the reigning Formula 3 champion, Italy’s Leonardo Fornaroli (Invicta Racing), who was the main beneficiary of the first-turn pile-up at Sainte Dévote caused by the championship leader, Ireland’s Alexander Dunne (Rodin Motorsport).
The podium was completed by Juan Pablo Montoya’s son Sebastian (Prema Racing), in front of his father, a former F1 winner with Williams and McLaren (94 GPs contested, 7 wins, 13 pole positions, 12 fastest laps). The youngster has a lot to live up to and, above all, he escaped unscathed from the pile-up on the first lap, caused by Dunne’s ill-considered attack on Frenchman Victor Martins (ART GP), who had started better than him from the front row.
The Irishman couldn’t take it and deliberately harpooned the Frenchman, causing a huge pile-up and, above all, a 45-minute interruption before the race could be restarted, at around 10.30am, behind the safety car, for just 30 minutes instead of the one hour originally scheduled. Fornaroli, back in the lead, thought he had won the race until a final incident with far-reaching consequences.
The Swede Dino Beganovic (HiTech) shot straight into the safety rail at the Casino, all on his own, and the safety car came out again, causing a rush to the pits. Crawford, who had stopped earlier, took advantage of the situation to take an unexpected victory, ahead of Fornaroli and Montoya.
In the championship standings, Crawford enjoys a fine recovery to a very provisional 5th place, even if only half the points were distributed because the race only lasted half an hour instead of an hour. That was some consolation for Martins, who has never had any luck in the Principality. The leader of the series is now another British driver, Luke Browning (70 points), ahead of Dunne (65) and Fornaroli (64).
🏆 JAK CRAWFORD WINS FEATURE RACE IN F2 🏆
Leonardo Fornaroli finishes 2nd and Sebastian Montoya grabs P3 after a 5 second time penalty for Arvid Lindblad
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🏆 JAK CRAWFORD REMPORTE LA COURSE PRINCIPALE EN F2 🏆
Leonardo Fornaroli termine 2e et Sebastian Montoya prend la 3e… pic.twitter.com/zJEej4rViD
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 25, 2025
The 3-place penalty was imposed last night, more than two hours after the end of a suspenseful qualifying session: Lewis Hamilton will start from 7th place (instead of 4th place, behind team-mate Charles Leclerc) on the grid this Sunday at 3pm for the 82nd Formula 1 TAG Heuer Monaco Grand Prix. The race stewards ruled that the Ferrari driver, who was idling at the Massenet bend just before the Casino de Monte-Carlo, had impeded Max Verstappen (Red Bull), who was on a fast lap, during qualifying on Saturday afternoon.
The rules were applied to the letter, with no exceptions or derogations possible, even if the seven-time world champion was not necessarily trying to harm his successor in the championship, four times in a row. And as a direct consequence of this sanction, it is Verstappen who climbs onto the 2nd row alongside Oscar Piastri (McLaren), the leader of the 2025 championship.
On the 3rd row, Frenchman Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) will start next to another World Champion, Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin). Another driver was heavily penalised on Saturday: Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), with a total of four places lost. One for impeding Leclerc on Friday during free practice, and three for impeding Pierre Gasly (Alpine) on Saturday in qualifying. The Canadian will start 19th.
As an indirect consequence of this penalty, the race strategies will be even more out of sync for certain drivers, including Hamilton, who is pushed back to the 4th row. It is highly likely that Ferrari will play the card of a premature stop for the Englishman, in order to muddy the waters and get McLaren’s strategists thinking. And the fans will be in for a treat, with two compulsory pit stops, not to mention the very probable periods with a Safety Car.. Wait and see, as they say in England…
Bulgarian Nikola Tsolov (Campos Racing) started from pole position and won the Formula 3 Main Race at the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco on Sunday, without any doubts whatsoever, twenty years after the success of Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time world champion.
A member of the Red Bull Junior Team, Tsolov finished ahead of Poland’s Roman Bilinski (Rodin Motorsport), who never threatened him, and Spain’s Mari Boya (Campos), who was harassed for 27 laps by Britain’s Callum Voisin (Rodin Motorsport, who finished just off the podium.
Tsolov escaped twice in the lead, initially extending his gap to 8 seconds before a virtual Safety Car period, then he went back on the attack and finished 7 seconds ahead of Bilinski, who was next to him on the front row. He won last year’s Formula 3 Sprint Race, so this is his second victory in the Principality at just 18 years of age.
German Tim Tramnitz (MP Motorsport) was never able to get into the fight at the front (5th) and championship leader Rafael Camara (Trident) finished in the rail at the Piscine, with a right rear wheel torn off, an anonymous race in the main pack. He still leads the overall classification, but his lead over Tramnitz and Tsolov has shrunk this weekend.
On the French side, Alessandro Giusti (MP Motorsport), who started from pole position in Saturday’s Sprint Race but only finished 4th, took advantage of the numerous incidents in a race marred by yellow flags to take a well-deserved 10th place. As for his compatriot Théophile Naël (Van Amersfoort), he consoled himself with his 22nd place (out of 30 starters) with the best lap of the race. Once again, the world-renowned ACM Stewards were quick and efficient, avoiding a red flag during the 45 minutes of this early morning race.
🏆 NIKOLA TSOLOV WINS THE F3 FEATURE RACE 🏆
Roman Bilinki finishes 2nd and Mari Boya completes the podium in 3rd place !
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🏆 NIKOLA TSOLOV REMPORTE LA COURSE PRINCIPALE F3 🏆
Roman Bilinski termine 2e et Mari Boya complète le podium 3e !#MonacoGP #F3 #MonacoCircuit pic.twitter.com/0rjk8IV9ft
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 25, 2025
A memorable qualifying session rounded off a day of high-level action at the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco. Lando Norris (McLaren) will start from pole position at 3pm on Sunday for the 78 laps of this 82nd edition, but he will have to watch Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) on the first row, since the Italian team has progressed a lot since the start of the weekend.
On the second row will be the other McLaren, that of Oscar Piastri, and the other Ferrari, that of Lewis Hamilton, ahead of the Red Bull of four-time reigning World Champion Max Verstappen and one of this season’s revelations, young Frenchman Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls). It’s almost the ideal grid for this 8th round of the World Championship, and Norris’s 11th pole position in F1.
‘It’s really pleasing, and that’s saying a lot, because I’ve just come through a difficult period,’ said Norris in the press conference, relieved to have been able to put his foot down at the end of Q3, during a second flying lap which ended in 1 minute 9 seconds and 954 thousandths, the new absolute record at Circuit de Monaco. In Q3, three drivers did better than Leclerc’s pole last year (1:10.270), the two McLaren drivers and the Monegasque, who was visibly exhausted after this suspenseful session.
Norris has been struggling in recent weeks, while Piastri has been racking up victories: four in total, compared to just one for his British team-mate, the victim of a series of setbacks, errors and other race incidents. He shone at the best of times, just as we were approaching the 33% mark in this season. The gaps at the top of the World Championship are still limited, at least for the top three, including Verstappen who was a little behind in this Monaco qualifier (5th).
Piastri in championship mode?
‘I had a difficult start to the weekend, so I’m happy with 3rd place on the grid,’ said Piastri, who had struggled all weekend to find the right balance on his McLaren, and enough confidence to play Q3 to the hilt. ‘We’ve made good progress, so I’m satisfied,’ said the championship leader, who has yet to open up a huge gap and is perhaps thinking about saving some big points on Sunday, especially if he doesn’t feel capable of winning.
‘Sunday’s race is likely to be chaotic,’ said the three drivers on the subject of the FIA’s requirement to make at least two pit stops to change Pirelli tyres. ‘There may be more surprises at the back of the field, than at the front’, predicted Leclerc. He will be able to count on Hamilton, on the 2nd row, to play the team race, especially if he manages to get off to a better start, on the first row, than Norris, the poleman of this 82nd edition.
Saturday’s qualifying sessions were far less kind to the Mercedes team, which lost both Kimi Antonelli (who went off the track in Q1, 15th fastest) and George Russell, who suffered a mechanical breakdown in the tunnel during Q2. That’s two big podium contenders who will be starting from very far back on the grid, and who are bound to have some daring strategies up their sleeves.
One thing is certain: on Sunday, we’ll be treated to a memorable 82nd edition of the Monaco Grand Prix, which is sure to be far more eventful than the long procession of 2024, which ended with a historic victory for Charles Leclerc in his homeland. The grandstands will be packed and, once again, this Grand Prix will justify its reputation as a race like no other, since the first edition in 1929.
⏱️ POLE POSITION FOR LANDO NORRIS ⏱️
Charles Leclerc finishes with the 2nd lap time and will share front row while Oscar Piastri grabs the 3rd time 🙌
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⏱️ POLE POSITION DE LANDO NORRIS ⏱️
Charles Leclerc termine avec le 2e meilleur temps et partagera la première ligne… pic.twitter.com/3s8reZCTZm
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 24, 2025
India’s Kush Maini (DAMS) won the Formula 2 Sprint Race ahead of Italy’s Gabriele Mini (Prema) at the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco on Saturday. This is his second F2 win after another Sprint Race last year in Budapest. Starting from pole position, thanks to his 10th place on Friday in qualifying (reverse grid for the top ten), Maini made no mistake, held off Mini perfectly and thoroughly deserved to win in the Principality, after 30 hotly contested laps.
The Safety Car only came out once, shortly before the halfway point of the race (from lap 12 to 14), after Joshua Durksen and John Bennett went off the track. It made no difference to the final standings and the last place on the podium in the princely box was taken by Briton Luke Browning (HiTech), one of Williams development drivers, now back at one point (65 to 64) of the championship leader, Irishman Alexander Dunne (Rodin Motorsport), 9th in this Sprint Race.
Mini did his utmost over two-thirds of the race to close on Maini, but was never able to seriously attack him. Both drivers are members of the Alpine Driver Academy. Mini, twice victorious in F3 at Monaco, then put his foot down to preserve 2nd place and found himself under threat from young British driver Arvin Lindblad (Campos).
But Lindblad, who ended up in 4th place, found himself back in 8th place just after the chequered flag, as a ten-second penalty ruined all his efforts that afternoon. The Formula 2 Long Race will take place on Sunday morning at 9.40am, over 42 laps or one hour maximum. The front row will feature Frenchman Victor Martins alongside Irish poleman Alexander Dunne.
🏆 KUSH MAINI WINS F2 SPRINT RACE 🏆
He is followed by Garbiele Mini in P2 and Luke Browning completes podium in P3
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🏆 KUSH MAINI REMPORTE LA COURSE SPRINT DE F2 🏆
Il est suivi de Gabriele Mini en P2 et Luke Browning complète le podium en P3#MonacoGP #F1 #F2… pic.twitter.com/IP42L1ilOM
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 24, 2025
The 3rd and final Free Practice session for the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco, held at siesta time on Saturday, saw Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) once again set the fastest time, as he had done in the two previous sessions on Friday, so that he could arrive at 4 p.m. for qualifying with full confidence. The session ended with a red flag, two minutes before the end, after Lewis Hamilton lost control of his Ferrari at the top of the Ostend uphill portion, just before reaching the Casino square in Monte-Carlo.
As on Friday, Leclerc was ahead of Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) and the two McLaren drivers, with championship leader Oscar Piastri ahead of Lando Norris. But Verstappen injected a little suspense into this sunny afternoon in the Principality: he set the 2nd fastest time on Pirelli Medium tyres, just two tenths behind Leclerc who had set his best time on Soft tyres. Will Leclerc manage to keep an edge on Verstappen when the Dutch maestro goes out with Soft Tyres, at the end of Q3?
Hamilton could only manage 5th place in this session, half a second behind Leclerc, and he walked back to the Ferrari pits leaving his SF-25 a little damaged and without a front tyre on the rim of his car. Confidence is important in Monaco, so it wasn’t a good point to go out at the end of free practice, but the seven-time world champion knows how to bounce back, so anything is still possible in qualifying.
In the midfield chasing pack, Alex Albon put his Williams in 6th place, just ahead of the Racing Bull of Liam Lawson, the Kiwi sidelined by Red Bull Racing at the start of the season, in Japan. And his team-mate Isack Hadjar, in the other Racing Bull car, fell back to 17th place in this session, which started gently and ended with a bang.
The suspense-filled qualifying session gets underway at 16:00. The time to beat, the reference time, is 1:10.270 set by Charles the Monegasque last year. All bets are off…
📊 Here are the results of the final Free Practice session 🏎️
Make it 3 for Charles Leclerc 👑
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📊 Voici les résultats de la dernière séance d’Essais Libres 🏎️
Charles Leclerc réalise une nouvelle fois le meilleur temps 👑#MonacoGP #F1 #MonacoCircuit pic.twitter.com/0dHOEKTnU2
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) May 24, 2025
