Charles Leclerc looked in great form in Monaco GP practice, and Red Bull seemingly have work to do to catch up.
Friday’s free practice day at the Monaco Grand Prix left us with two very close sessions with the drivers pushing hard from minute one.
He has been going from strength to strength since FP1, taking risks on his fastest laps and going to the limit to beat Max Verstappen’s pole time of 2023 by 0.087s. He also suffered from traffic on some of his flying laps which prevented him from putting together a good Sector 2 and Sector 3 after his first attempt with the soft tyres.As in Imola, Red Bull’s start to the weekend has not been ideal. But as was the case last week, it can’t be ruled out at all that the reigning World Champion will suddenly be back on top tomorrow.
It is true that top speed is less important in Monaco – the drivers rarely using eighth gear, if at all – but running with a more conservative engine map, as seems to have been the case for the Milton Keynes team with fewer maximum revs on the telemetry, is noticeable. “I just want to try and solve the issues that we have, try to make it a little bit more drivable. And then we’ll see where we end up, but I don’t expect any miracles.”
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