2024 Monaco GP Practice & Qualifying Thread

[racingbradley]

I guess it's that time again. Here's hoping we have a great weekend.

[ferrari1.8t]

Mega lap from Charles. Nearly 6 tenths up on Norris. Pole possible this weekend?

[racingbradley]

It's early days but we are looking good. Charles has gone for medium tyres while those around him are on softs!!

[PURE PASSION]

Mega lap from Charles. Nearly 6 tenths up on Norris. Pole possible this weekend?

Too early. In Imola we where also fast up till Q3. We will talk tomorrow afternoon

[ferrari1.8t]

Too early. In Imola we where also fast up till Q3. We will talk tomorrow afternoon

Definitely early days..but we are only .228 down while on the medium. So it looks promising, let’s hope it carries over in to Q3!

[racingbradley]

Blast Charles picks up debris from Zhou's car in the floor area. The mechanics are busy fixing it. Let's hope it's not too serious. It's all he needed.

[PURE PASSION]

Lec after the "incident" with the debris, was in and out the pits on low speed !!!! Is there something wrong ????

[PURE PASSION]

Mid fence - floor damage for CL

Nice !!!!!

[tifosi1993]

Lec after the "incident" with the debris, was in and out the pits on low speed !!!! Is there something wrong ????

Nope, floor was ok and he was laying down rubbers in the pitlane and did the practice race start just fine.

[tifosi1993]

Charles-SF24 was the fastest package in FP1. Had the pace and was flying on both hards and mediums tyres.

The balance looked great and the car looked compliant to the demands Charles was asking from it. Early days and it is Monaco, but looking really good.

[PURE PASSION]

Charles-SF24 was the fastest package in FP1. Had the pace and was flying on both hards and mediums tyres.

The balance looked great and the car looked compliant to the demands Charles was asking from it. Early days and it is Monaco, but looking really good.

What happend , when he set fastest S1 ?? I lost him. Did he was slower then before , did he back down ??

[PURE PASSION]

marc gené on
@SkySportF1
reports that charles’ car is not at 100%: they couldn’t repair fully the damage done by the debris, one part in particular.

but also, nothing major! they will repair it, not this session

[tifosi1993]

What happend , when he set fastest S1 ?? I lost him. Did he was slower then before , did he back down ??

He did the fastest S1 just after setting his PB on the mediums, he had traffic in the 2nd sector so backed off on that lap, which could've been easily P1. Then Red Flag came and after that didn't bother with fast laps.

[racingbradley]

Hopefully they can fully repair the damaged part of the floor before FP2. The Mercs and Mclarens are looking good here and of course you can never rule out RB even when they are slow on a Friday.

[PURE PASSION]

He did the fastest S1 just after setting his PB on the mediums, he had traffic in the 2nd sector so backed off on that lap, which could've been easily P1. Then Red Flag came and after that didn't bother with fast laps.

[elnano14]

Jesus Leclerc is murdering the whole field on mediums

[tifosi1993]

Absolute sheer display of raw speed.

[PURE PASSION]

Please let it be a somewhat trye pace what we see right now !!!!!!!!!!

[elnano14]

Purple after purple, gap +1s to everyone else. He really wants this home win

[FerrariF60]

Absolute sheer display of raw speed.

totally....the onboard and off board videos of the sf24 in Charles hands, that car's on RAILS....my God, absolute MONSTER

[FerrariF60]

Purple after purple, gap +1s to everyone else. He really wants this home win

do you blame him for that??? he's been trying for teh past 3 years or more to win Monaco, his HOME GP....but through bad luck he's missed getting this win

hopefully all will change this year and finally be on that top step and make everyone proud

[tifosi1993]

1:11.278

[FerrariF60]

1:11.278

insane, almost liek he's 100% connected with teh car

[racingbradley]

It looks good at the moment but don't count those chickens just yet. We have a long way to go yet before the top step beckons!!!!!
Friday is what it says on the tin..........practice.
Things are very positive so far but they were last Friday as well.....................

[FerrariF60]

It looks good at the moment but don't count those chickens just yet. We have a long way to go yet before the top step beckons!!!!!
Friday is what it says on the tin..........practice.
Things are very positive so far but they were last Friday as well.....................

im NOT counting anything but the car does look solid, at least in Leclerc's hands

[tifosi1993]

Combining all of Charles's best sectors: 1:11.004

Faster than last year's pole and it's only Friday!

[FerrariF60]

now merc and hamilton are showing some pace....so yeah, i'm sure some are hiding their true pace

we'll probalby easily get into 1:09 come quali

[tifosi1993]

We saw the glimpse of his raw speed in 2022, when he had a car just like this one, plenty of downforce and a good front end. The upgrades Ferrari brought in the last race moved the car more to Charles's preference.

[tifosi1993]

Best sectors:

S1: Charles (18.468) vs Lewis (18.667)

S2: Charles (33.670) vs Lewis (33.823)

S3: Charles (18.866) vs Lewis (18.961)

[ferrari1.8t]

Let’s hope Charles can put the lap together when it counts and get Pole! Hopefully his new engineer and Ferrari will give him the perfect strategy and opportunity to win.

With any luck, Carlos can come P2 and we can dictate the race/strategy.

Forza Ferrari!!!