The Monegasque rider will try to be a prophet in his homeland starting for the fourteenth time from pole in his career, just as he did last year in the Principality, although on that occasion he did not even complete a lap due to a fault with his machine.
After having dominated the two free sessions on Friday, Leclerc also set the pace in qualifying after the Mexican Sergio Pérez said present setting the best time in the third and last free practice of this day.
The Red Bull driver will start from the second row, flanked by his Dutch teammate Max Verstappen, who a year ago claimed victory in Monaco and seeks to repeat what he did a week ago in Spain, where his victory allowed him to climb to the top of the championship.
Leclerc, meanwhile, will seek to reduce the six points that separate him from the world champion and finish a Grand Prix at home for the first time to cut that “curse” once and for all.
From the third row will move the British Lando Norris, with McLaren, and George Russell, with Mercedes, and one behind will be the two-time Spanish world champion Fernando Alonso, with Alpine-Renault, and the seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton, with Mercedes.
From the fifth row will move the four-time German world champion Sebastian Vettel (with whom Ferrari celebrated his last victory in Monaco in 2017), with Aston Martin, and the Frenchman Esteban Ocon, with Alpine-Renault.
The end of the classification registered a moment of tension when Pérez hit the containment fences at the entrance of the tunnel and Sáinz could not avoid the impact, generating a “block” on the track just when the pilots sought to improve their records.
One of them was Verstappen, who by pure reflex managed to avoid the impact against the stopped machines.
Source: Ambito
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