Four Monaco Grand Prix winners are on the 2025 grid, six different drivers have won the past seven Monaco races and Leclerc finally broke his curse at his home event in 2024. Here’s everything you need to know about each driver’s history at the Monaco Grand Prix!
Max VERSTAPPEN
Max Verstappen’s Monaco career got off to a very good start as he finished second fastest in Free Practice 1 with Toro Rosso in 2015 on his first laps of the track. Verstappen’s Monaco appearances have been somewhat hit and miss.
His 2015 race here came to an early end after he collided with the rear of Romain Grosjean. He failed to finish again in 2016 in a crash-strewn weekend. He clipped the barrier at Casino in Free Practice 3, crashed out at the Swimming Pool complex in Q1 and crashed out of the race at Massenet. He also missed out on qualifying in 2018 following a crash in the final practice session.
Since then, Verstappen has scored on all seven visits to Monaco, finishing on the podium for the first time with his 2021 victory. He finished third in 2022 and recorded a second Monaco Grand Prix win in 2023. He could have finished on the podium in the 2019 race here, if not for a five second time penalty for a pit-lane incident. His sixth place in 2024 marked the first time since then that he did not appear on the podium.
Verstappen became a Monaco Grand Prix polestitter for the first time in 2023. He also qualified on the front row in 2021 and became the de facto polesitter that year, when Charles Leclerc was unable to start the race. 2016 and 2018 are the only seasons in which Verstappen has not reached Q3 in Monaco.
MAX VERSTAPPEN’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2015 |
LOST |
10 |
9 |
DNF |
– |
2016 |
LOST |
21 |
22 |
DNF |
– |
2017 |
WON |
4 |
4 |
5 |
-1 |
2018 |
OTH |
20 |
20 |
9 |
11 |
2019 |
WON |
3 |
3 |
4 |
-1 |
2021 |
WON |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2022 |
LOST |
4 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
2023 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2024 |
WON |
6 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
Yuki TSUNODA
Liam Lawson won the second Formula 2 Sprint Race in Monaco in 2021 – only to be stripped of the win for using a prohibited throttle map at the race start. The following year, Lawson secured pole position but had his fastest lap time deleted, dropping him to fifth. He then picked up a five-place penalty after failing to slow for yellow flags. He secured an eighth place finish in the Sprint Race but retired from the Feature Race. Lawson’s best result to date in Monaco is seventh in the 2021 Feature Race.
Lando NORRIS
Lando Norris scored for the first time in Monaco in 2021, taking the final spot on the podium. He narrowly missed out on points on his maiden appearance here in 2019, finishing 11th. Norris finished in the top six for a second consecutive season in 2022 and brought home more points with a ninth place finish in 2023. He finished fourth in 2024.
Norris reached Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in 2021, qualifying in fifth place. He qualified fifth again in 2022, out-qualifying his team-mate for the second year in a row. In 2023, he again reached Q3 and again out-qualified his team-mate. Last year, Norris recorded his best qualifying result to date in Monaco with fourth place – though his team-mate out-qualified him here for the first time since 2019.
Prior to reaching F1, Norris raced at Monaco in F2 in 2018, finishing sixth in the Feature Race and taking a podium finish in the Sprint Race, coming home in third place.
LANDO NORRIS’ MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2019 |
LOST |
12 |
12 |
11 |
1 |
2021 |
WON |
5 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
2022 |
WON |
5 |
5 |
6 |
-1 |
2023 |
WON |
10 |
10 |
9 |
1 |
2024 |
LOST |
4 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
Oscar PIASTRI
Oscar Piastri picked up a single point on his Monaco Grand Prix debut in 2023, finishing in tenth place, one position behind his McLaren team-mate. He missed out on a spot in Q2 by just two hundredths of a second and qualified 11th.
In 2024, he out-qualified his team-mate and lined up on the front row of the grid. He failed to find a way past leader Charles Leclerc and lost some downforce following contact with Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz. Nevertheless, he held on to second place and finished only seven seconds behind the winner to record his first podium result in Monaco.
Piastri secured consecutive second place finishes in the F2 races in Monaco in 2021. After finishing eighth in the first Sprint Race, Piastri finished less than a second away from second Sprint Race winner Dan Ticktum and just three seconds away from Feature Race winner Théo Pourchaire.
OSCAR PIASTRI’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2023 |
LOST |
11 |
11 |
10 |
1 |
2024 |
WON |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
Lewis HAMILTON
Lewis Hamilton has won in Monaco three times, in 2008, 2016 and 2019. He has a 100% finish rate at the track, with 2009 being the only season that he has failed to score. He recorded his worst result since then in 2022, finishing eighth. Hamilton has finished on the podium at the Monaco Grand Prix seven times in total, with his 2019 victory being his most recent top three appearance.
Hamilton has taken pole in Monaco twice, in 2015 and 2019, and has started from the front row a further three times. 2009 and 2017 are the only years that he has failed to qualify in the top ten. Sixth in 2023 marked his best Monaco qualifying result since his last pole here in 2019.
In his 17 appearances, Hamilton has been out-qualified by his team-mate more often than not. 2023 is the only time since 2019 that he managed to qualify ahead of his team-mate in Monaco.
LEWIS HAMILTON’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2007 |
LOST |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2008 |
WON |
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2009 |
LOST |
16 |
19 |
12 |
7 |
2010 |
WON |
5 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
2011 |
LOST |
9 |
9 |
6 |
3 |
2012 |
WON |
4 |
3 |
5 |
-2 |
2013 |
LOST |
2 |
2 |
4 |
-2 |
2014 |
LOST |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2015 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
3 |
-2 |
2016 |
LOST |
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2017 |
LOST |
14 |
13 |
7 |
6 |
2018 |
WON |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2019 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2021 |
LOST |
7 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
2022 |
LOST |
8 |
8 |
8 |
0 |
2023 |
WON |
6 |
5 |
4 |
1 |
2024 |
LOST |
7 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
Charles LECLERC
Charles Leclerc finally broke his home race curse at the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, winning from pole position having led every lap of the race. His five previous appearances here had not gone to plan.
He was out in the closing stages in 2018 after a brake failure, while he clattered into Nico Hulkenberg in the 2019 running of the race. In 2021, Leclerc took pole for the race before crashing at the end of the qualifying session. He was then unable to start the race due to gearbox issues.
Leclerc finally reached the chequered flag in 2022, but there was more disappointment. He took pole position for the second consecutive season but finished only fourth – a result of poor strategy. In 2023, he qualified third but dropped three places on the grid after picking up a penalty for impeding Lando Norris during Q3. He was unable to finish any higher than where he started, in sixth place.
He had a Saturday to forget in 2019 when he was eliminated in Q1 – his only Q1 exit to date at the circuit. It remains the last time he did not appear in Q3 at his home event.
CHARLES LECLERC’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2018 |
WON |
14 |
14 |
DNF |
– |
2019 |
LOST |
16 |
15 |
DNF |
– |
2021 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
DNS |
– |
2022 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
4 |
-3 |
2023 |
WON |
3 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
2024 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
George RUSSELL
From his two appearances prior to 2022 at the Monaco Grand Prix, George Russell did not finish above 14th place. Since then, he has recorded three consecutive fifth place finishes. He scored for the first time at the track in 2022, and recorded further top five finishes in 2023 and 2024.
From his five qualifying appearances, Russell exited in Q1 in 2019, was eliminated in Q2 in 2021 and has reached Q3 in each of the last three seasons. His best Saturday result to date at the track is fifth, recorded in 2024.
2023, when he qualified eighth, marked the first time Russell was out-qualified by a team-mate at the track.
Prior to his F1 career, Russell had a weekend to forget in Monaco in 2018, as he retired from both the F2 Feature and Sprint races.
GEORGE RUSSELL’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2019 |
WON |
19 |
19 |
15 |
4 |
2021 |
WON |
15 |
15 |
14 |
1 |
2022 |
WON |
6 |
6 |
5 |
1 |
2023 |
LOST |
8 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
2024 |
WON |
5 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
Kimi ANTONELLI
Kimi Antonelli scored points in both Formula 2 races in Monaco in 2024. Starting where he finished in both events, Antonelli finished fourth in the Sprint Race and seventh in the Feature Race.
Fernando ALONSO
Fernando Alonso won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007, becoming the only driver in F1 history to win the event in successive years with different teams. Alonso has a further three podium finishes to his name here. He recorded podium finishes with Ferrari in 2011 and 2012 and recorded his first top three result at the track in 11 years with Aston Martin in 2023, finishing as runner-up.
The Spaniard has retired from the event four times, while his tenth place in 2008, 13th in 2021 and 11th in 2024 are the only times he’s finished a Monaco Grand Prix in a position outside of the points. In 2022, his seventh place finish marked the first time Alonso scored points in Monaco since 2016.
Alonso has lined up on the front row here on four occasions, including with pole positions in 2006 and 2007. 2023 marked his first front row start at the track since his last pole position in Monaco in 2007.
2010, when he failed to set a lap in qualifying, 2021 and 2024 are the only times he’s been eliminated in Q1 here, while 2015 is the only other time he’s failed to reach Q3 in Monaco.
Aside from the races which he won, Alonso has led a further three laps here. He led for a single lap in the 2004, 2011 and 2012 Monaco Grands Prix.
FERNANDO ALONSO’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2001 |
WON |
18 |
18 |
DNF |
– |
2003 |
LOST |
8 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
2004 |
LOST |
4 |
3 |
DNF |
– |
2005 |
WON |
2 |
2 |
4 |
-2 |
2006 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2007 |
WON |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2008 |
WON |
7 |
7 |
10 |
-3 |
2009 |
WON |
9 |
9 |
7 |
2 |
2010 |
– |
NO TIME |
24 |
6 |
18 |
2011 |
LOST |
4 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
2012 |
WON |
6 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
2013 |
WON |
6 |
6 |
7 |
-1 |
2014 |
WON |
5 |
5 |
4 |
1 |
2015 |
LOST |
15 |
13 |
DNF |
– |
2016 |
WON |
10 |
9 |
5 |
4 |
2018 |
WON |
7 |
7 |
DNF |
– |
2021 |
LOST |
17 |
17 |
13 |
4 |
2022 |
WON |
7 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
2023 |
WON |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2024 |
LOST |
16 |
14 |
11 |
3 |
Lance STROLL
Lance Stroll scored his best Monaco Grand Prix finishing position to date in 2021 with eighth place. It was the first time he scored points at the event and remains the only time that he has picked up a point here. He retired from the race in both 2017 and 2023 and failed to finish above 14th on his other four appearances.
2024 marked the first time that Stroll out-qualified his team-mate in Monte Carlo. He has never reached Q3 here, recording his fourth Q1 exit at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2022and his third Q2 elimination in 2024. From his seven appearances at the track, Stroll has qualified 18th four times – though 2022 is the only time has actually started 18th on the grid.
LANCE STROLL’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2017 |
LOST |
18 |
17 |
DNF |
– |
2018 |
LOST |
18 |
17 |
17 |
0 |
2019 |
LOST |
18 |
17 |
16 |
1 |
2021 |
LOST |
13 |
13 |
8 |
5 |
2022 |
LOST |
18 |
18 |
14 |
4 |
2023 |
LOST |
14 |
14 |
DNF |
– |
2024 |
WON |
14 |
13 |
14 |
-1 |
Pierre GASLY
For the first time in four appearances, Pierre Gasly failed to score points at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2022. He narrowly missed out, finishing 11th. It’s the only time the Frenchman has failed to score here from his six total starts. His bet result here is fifth, recorded with Red Bull in 2019. His other points-scoring races at the track have all been top seven results, aside from 2024 when he finished tenth despite making contact with his team-mate on the opening lap.
2022 is the only time Gasly has failed to reach Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix. His best qualifying result here is fifth, recorded in 2019. He was out in Q1 in 2022, failing to out-qualify his team-mate at the track for the second time. He was also out-qualified by Alpine team-mate Esteban Ocon in 2023.
2021 is the only time Gasly has finished the Monaco Grand Prix in a worse position than where he started.
PIERRE GASLY’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2018 |
WON |
10 |
10 |
7 |
3 |
2019 |
LOST |
5 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
2021 |
WON |
6 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
2022 |
LOST |
17 |
17 |
11 |
6 |
2023 |
LOST |
7 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
2024 |
WON |
10 |
10 |
10 |
0 |
Jack DOOHAN
Jack Doohan competed at Circuit de Monaco in Formula 2 in 2022 and 2023. He scored top seven results in three of the four races he competed in, with a best result of fourth in the 2022 Feature Race. He retired from the 2023 Feature Race – his most recent outing at the track – after crashing out at Massenet.
Esteban OCON
Esteban Ocon finished on the podium at the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix, recording his first top five finish at the event. From his five previous appearance at the Monaco Grand Prix prior to 2023, Ocon scored twice, with sixth place in 2018 and ninth in 2021.
Ocon held a 100% finish rate at the track until 2024, when contact with Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly on the opening lap of the race brought an early end to his afternoon. Of races he’s finished here, he’s yet to finish outside of the top 12.
Ocon reached Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix for the third time in 2023, qualifying in fourth place. It marked his best qualifying result to date at the track. He’s just missed out on Q3 twice – in 2021 and 2024, qualifying 11th.
ESTEBAN OCON’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2017 |
LOST |
16 |
15 |
12 |
3 |
2018 |
WON |
6 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
2021 |
WON |
11 |
11 |
9 |
2 |
2022 |
LOST |
10 |
10 |
12 |
-2 |
2023 |
WON |
4 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2024 |
LOST |
11 |
11 |
DNF |
– |
Ollie BEARMAN
Ollie Bearman raced at Monaco in Formula 2 in both 2023 and 2024. He had a fruitless weekend in 2023, qualifying 16th, retiring from the Sprint Race and finishing only 11th in the Feature Race. Lining up 15th on the grid after receiving a 3-place grid penalty for impeding in qualifying, Bearman raced to 11th in the Sprint Race in 2024 and drove from 12th to fourth in the Sunday Feature Race.
Liam LAWSON
Yuki Tsunoda scored points at the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time in 2024, finishing in eighth place. It was the first time he finished above 15th place in his four visits to Monte Carlo.He finished 16th in 2021, 17th in 2022 and 15th in 2023.
Tsunoda reached Q3 for the first time at the circuit in 2022 and progressed to Q3 for the first time in 2023, qualifying ninth. He bettered that with eighth place in 2024. Tsunoda has out-qualified his team-mate in both of the last two seasons.
He is yet to finish the Monaco Grand Prix in a better position than where he started, having lost six places in both 2022 and 2023 and finished where he started in 2024.
YUKI TSUNODA’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2021 |
LOST |
16 |
16 |
16 |
0 |
2022 |
WON |
11 |
11 |
17 |
-6 |
2023 |
WON |
9 |
9 |
15 |
-6 |
2024 |
WON |
8 |
8 |
8 |
0 |
Isack HADJAR
Isack Hadjar has previously won in Monaco, taking his first victory in the Formula Regional championship in 2021. He returned to the track in Formula 2 in 2023. After qualifying tenth, he started the reverse-grid Sprint Race from pole position and led until mechanical issues put him out of the race on Lap 6. He finished 12th in the Feature Race.
Hadjar looked set to win the 2024 Feature Race in Monaco until a late race Virtual Safety Car gave a strategic advantage to Zak O’Sullivan, who ended up taking victory ahead of Hadjar. He had a scary moment in qualifying for the 2024 F2 race, with lightning speed reactions seeing him avoid a hefty collision with the slow-moving car of Ritomo Miyata.
Carlos SAINZ
In his nine visits to the Monaco Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz has never failed to score a point. In 2021, he recorded his first Monaco Grand Prix podium result with second place, before finishing as runner-up again in 2022. He retuned to the podium once again in 2024, this time finishing third. All of his other finishes have been outside of the top five positions.
Sainz has also never missed out on Q3 at the track, and has a best qualifying result of second in 2022. He started from the pit lane in 2015, but still managed to score points. 2021 was the first time that Sainz was out-qualified by his team-mate at the circuit. He was out-qualified by Charles Leclerc again in both 2023 and 2024.
CARLOS SAINZ’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2015 |
WON |
8 |
PIT |
10 |
#VALUE! |
2016 |
WON |
7 |
6 |
8 |
-2 |
2017 |
WON |
6 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
2018 |
WON |
8 |
8 |
10 |
-2 |
2019 |
WON |
9 |
9 |
6 |
3 |
2021 |
LOST |
4 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
2022 |
LOST |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2023 |
LOST |
5 |
4 |
8 |
-4 |
2024 |
LOST |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
Alex ALBON
Alex Albon has made four appearances at the Monaco Grand Prix, scoring points twice. He finished in eighth place with Toro Rosso in 2019 and ninth with Williams in 2024. Albon failed to finish the race with Williams in 2022 and came home 14th in 2023.
Albon reached Q3 in both 2019 and 2024, was eliminated in Q1 in 2022 and exited in Q2 last year. He has out-qualified his team-mate here in each of the last three seasons.
ALEX ALBON’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2019 |
LOST |
10 |
10 |
8 |
2 |
2022 |
WON |
16 |
16 |
DNF |
– |
2023 |
WON |
13 |
13 |
14 |
-1 |
2024 |
WON |
9 |
9 |
9 |
0 |
Nico HULKENBERG
From 11 previous appearances at the Monaco Grand Prix, Nico Hulkenberg has scored points on four occasions. His best finish here is fifth place, recorded in 2014. Hulkenberg has failed to reach the chequered flag three times in Monaco, in 2010, 2017 and in 2024 when a collision with Sergio Perez and his team-mate on the opening lap put him out of the race.
2016 is the only season in which Hulkenberg has progressed to Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix. He qualified fifth that year. 2023 marked the German’s first Q1 elimination here, having exited in Q2 on every other appearance. On six of those nine occasions, Hulkenberg qualified in 11th place; including in all of his first four visits to the track. He has started from the top ten three times – having moved up to tenth on the final grid due to penalties for other drivers in 2012 and 2017.
NICO HULKENBERG’S MONACO GRAND PRIX HISTORY
Quali Battle |
Qualified |
Grid |
Finished |
Pos Change |
|
2010 |
LOST |
11 |
23 |
DNF |
– |
2012 |
WON |
11 |
10 |
8 |
2 |
2013 |
WON |
11 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
2014 |
LOST |
11 |
11 |
5 |
6 |
2015 |
LOST |
13 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
2016 |
WON |
5 |
5 |
6 |
-1 |
2017 |
WON |
12 |
10 |
DNF |
– |
2018 |
LOST |
11 |
11 |
8 |
3 |
2019 |
LOST |
11 |
11 |
13 |
-2 |
2023 |
LOST |
18 |
18 |
17 |
1 |
2024 |
WON |
12 |
19 |
DNF |
– |
Gabriel BORTOLETO
Gabriel Bortoleto has raced at Monaco in Formula 2 and Formula 3. After recording two top six finishes here in F3 in 2023, he finished in the top eight in both races over the 2024 F2 race weekend. He finished as runner-up in the Sprint Race.
