Prestige, glamour and impossible speeds through the twisting turns of the principality. The Monaco Grand Prix is Formula 1’s most iconic race. The 2025 Monaco Grand Prix is set to take place on May 25.
1133rd F1 GRAND PRIX | 82nd MONACO GRAND PRIX | 71st F1 GRAND PRIX AT MONACO
2024 POLESITTER: CHARLES LECLERC | 2024 WINNER: CHARLES LECLERC
2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX: WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday May 23
Free Practice 1 – 1:30pm Local Time / 12:30pm UK Time
Free Practice 2 – 5:00pm Local Time / 4:00pm UK Time
Saturday May 24
Free Practice 3 – 12:30pm Local Time / 11:30am UK Time
Qualifying – 4:00pm Local Time/ 3:00pm UK Time
Sunday May 25
The 2025 Monaco Grand Prix – 3:00pm Local Time / 2:00pm UK Time
2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX: WEEKEND MILESTONES
Lewis Hamilton is one top three finish away from equalling Ayrton Senna’s record of eight podium results at the Monaco Grand Prix.
A win for a Mercedes-powered car would see Mercedes equal Ford Cosworth as the most successful engine manufacturer at the Monaco Grand Prix. Cars powered by Ford Cosworth have won the Monaco Grand Prix on 13 occasions. Ford Cosworth has held the record for most Monaco Grand Prix wins since 1974.
Should Lewis Hamilton record the fastest lap of the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, he will equal Michael Schumacher’s record of five fastest laps in Monaco.
Ayrton Senna’s record of five pole positions in Monaco cannot be equalled at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix but Charles Leclerc could become the sixth driver to have taken four pole positions at the event. Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna are the only other drivers to have taken as many as four poles in Monaco.
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WHAT HAS CHANGED AT THE CIRCUIT SINCE LAST YEAR?
Changes to the circuit since last year’s race will be posted here.
HOW MANY DRS ZONES WILL THERE BE AT THE 2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX?
It’s yet to be announced how many DRS zones there will be at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. Usually, there is a single DRS zone. The detection point is located 80m after Turn 16, while the activation zone is 18m after Turn 19.
CIRCUIT DE MONACO TRACK GUIDE
Situated in the harbour-side of one of the most picturesque places in Europe, the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix is held every year in May. The cars and drivers are pushed to their limits as they slide through the streets of Monte Carlo on the Circuit de Monaco.
Is there anywhere more synonymous with Formula 1 than Monaco? The most prestigious race on the calendar is the one that every driver hopes to win at least once in their career. Monaco’s affinity with motorsport began over ninety years ago.
Anthony Noghes is the man who came up with the idea for a race around the streets of Monte Carlo, and was encouraged after drawing up plans and showing them to local racer Louis Chiron. Noghes had to convince the Royal family to run a race on their streets; but they didn’t take much convincing. William Grover-Williams won the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 and from there an almost annual tradition was born. Both Noghes and Grover-Williams are celebrated in Monaco today. The final corner of the track is named in honour of its creator, while a statue of Grover-Williams racing can be found on the inside of the first turn.
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WHO WILL BE IN THE 2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX PRESS CONFERENCES?
The world’s media will have the opportunity to talk to the drivers ahead of the on-track action. The drivers appearing in the press conference for this race are yet to be announced.
The media will also be talking to prominent members of Formula 1’s teams in a separate press conference over the race weekend. The team members appearing in the press conference are yet to be announced.
WHO WILL BE THE RACE DIRECTOR AT THE 2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX?
Rui Marques will be the race director at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix.
WHO WILL BE THE DRIVER STEWARD AT THE 2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX?
Each weekend a former Formula 1 driver, or a driver from another prominent series of motorsport, joins the stewards to help judge any incidents from a drivers’ perspective. The Driver Steward this weekend is yet to be announced.
WHICH TYRE COMPOUNDS WILL BE USED AT THE 2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX?
Pirelli have not yet announced which tyre compounds will be used at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. The C3, C4 and C5 compounds were used in 2024.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME AT THE MONACO GRAND PRIX?
Charles Leclerc finally broke his home race curse, winning the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix in a race where all of the top ten starters maintained position throughout the afternoon.
The 2024 Monaco Grand Prix marked Formula 1’s 70th visit to the famous principality. As always, there were a few scrapes on the barriers during Free Practice – but only one red flag, the result of Valtteri Bottas crashing on Saturday morning.
Red Bull struggled on the streets, with Sergio Perez out in Q1 and Max Verstappen – who had taken every pole in 2024 prior to the Monaco race – qualifying only sixth after scraping the wall. Instead, it was home hero Charles Leclerc who lit up the timing sheets in qualifying, securing a third pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Leclerc held his lead at Turn 1, where second and third starters Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz made light contact, resulting in a puncture and stoppage near the casino for the Ferrari driver. Behind the frontrunners, a heavy crash between Perez’s Red Bull and the two Haas cars brought out the red flags. Just before the red flags came out, at Portier, Esteban Ocon made contact with his Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly in an audacious overtaking move, putting the former out of the race.
After a delay while debris was cleared and barrier repairs completed, the race restarted with Sainz – who had fallen to the back of the field after his stoppage – reinstated to third place in the order. It was a cleaner start the second time around, with all of the top ten drivers remaining in the same position not only for the restart of the race but for every lap thereafter.
The red flag meant that the drivers were all able to make their mandatory tyre change before the restart, leading to an afternoon with minimal pit stops. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen were the only drivers in the top ten to make a visit to the pits but they only did so when they had built up enough of an advantage over the car behind them. Lance Stroll made a pit stop in an attempt to gain positions in the latter half of the race but any advantage was foiled when the Aston Martin driver scraped the wall and picked up a puncture.
It may have been a lacklustre race, with drivers keeping the pace relatively slower in order to not overuse their tyres, but it was not a lacklustre result for Leclerc, who finally broke his home race curse to win the Monaco Grand Prix. He became the first Monegasque driver to win in Monaco since Louis Chiron in 1931, scoring his first victory in over two years.
Piastri, in the special Senna-themed McLaren livery, recorded his first podium finish of the 2024 season, while Sainz was lucky to finish in the top three given his first lap troubles.
WHAT’S THE FASTEST EVER LAP AT THE MONACO GRAND PRIX?
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