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Event

Monaco Grand Prix

Date
Sun 25th May 2025 (UTC)
Sun 25th May 2025 (Local)

Timestamp
2025-05-25T13:00:00

Time

13:00:00 UTC (15:00:00 Local)

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League
Formula 1

Season
2025

Round
8

Status
Not Started

Location
Circuit de Monaco

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Description

The 2025 Monaco Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 TAG Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco 2025) was a Formula One motor race held on 25 May 2025, at the Circuit de Monaco in Monaco. It was the eighth round of the 2025 Formula One World Championship. Lando Norris of McLaren took pole position for the race, which he went on to win, his second of the season, with Charles Leclerc of Ferrari second and Norris's teammate Oscar Piastri third. This was the first McLaren race victory at Monaco since 2008.

Background
The event was held at the Circuit de Monaco in Monaco for the 82nd time in the circuit's history, across the weekend of 23–25 May. The Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 2025 Formula One World Championship and the 71st running of the Monaco Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship.

Championship standings before the race
Going into the weekend, Oscar Piastri led the Drivers' Championship with 146 points, 13 points ahead of his teammate Lando Norris in second, and 22 ahead of Max Verstappen in third. McLaren, with 279 points, led the Constructors' Championship from Mercedes and Red Bull Racing, who were second and third with 147 and 131 points, respectively.

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Result List

01	Lando Norris	1:40:33.843
02	Charles Leclerc	+3.131s
03	Oscar Piastri	+3.658s
04	Max Verstappen	+20.572s
05	Lewis Hamilton	+51.387s
06	Isack Hadjar	+1 lap
07	Esteban Ocon	+1 lap
08	Liam Lawson	+1 lap
09	Alexander Albon	+2 laps
10	Carlos Sainz Jr	+2 laps
11	George Russell	+2 laps
12	Oliver Bearman	+2 laps
13	Franco Colapinto	+2 laps
14	Gabriel Bortoleto	+2 laps
15	Lance Stroll	+2 laps
16	Nico Hulkenberg	+2 laps
17	Yuki Tsunoda	+2 laps
18	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	+3 laps

Result Description
Lando Norris of McLaren got a slightly poorer start than his front row rival Charles Leclerc of Ferrari, who momentarily challenged him for the lead into the opening Sainte Devote turn. However, Norris was able to hold the inside line and maintain his lead. The field made it through the first timing sector cleanly. Fighting for fifteenth place, Gabriel Bortoleto of Sauber overtook Andrea Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes around the outside of the Fairmont Hairpin, Antonelli attempted to respond to by diving up the inside at the Portier turn. Bortoleto, already committed to the corner, was unable to avoid hitting the barrier and, whilst able to reverse back onto the track, lost his front wing and dropped to last in the race. The virtual safety car (VSC) was deployed to allow marshals to clear the debris from this incident. Before the race, there had been speculation as to whether the cars at the back of the grid might take one of their two mandatory pit stops on the first lap in order to give themselves clean air. Yuki Tsunoda of Red Bull Racing, Pierre Gasly of Alpine, Oliver Bearman of Haas and Bortoleto did just that, with the time lost compared to other cars being lessened due to the VSC being deployed at the time.

On lap 9 Gasly, who was running in 18th position, misjudged his braking for the Nouvelle Chicane and drove into the rear of Tsunoda. Gasly's front-left wheel was dislodged by the impact, ending his race, however he was able to drive back to the pit lane and therefore the debris could be cleared under double-waved yellow flags. As they passed through the yellow flag area, fourth-placed Max Verstappen of Red Bull closed up the rear of McLaren's Oscar Piastri of but was unable to pass, complaining over team radio that Piastri "would have taken my front wing off". At the end of lap 14 Isack Hadjar of Racing Bulls, who had been running in sixth position, became the first driver to pit from the top ten but was able to return to the track in eighth thanks to the efforts of his teammate Liam Lawson who had deliberately slowed down the cars behind in order to give Hadjar the gap necessary to pit and remain in front. The cars behind Lawson had been unable to overtake him, due to the narrow and twisting nature of the Circuit de Monaco. These inter-team tactics would end up being used extensively throughout the Grand Prix. On lap 18 Lewis Hamilton of Ferrari made his first stop and was able to overcut both Hadjar and Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin, moving him from a net seventh to fifth position.

On lap 19 race leader Norris made his first pit stop without incident, switching from mediums to hards. Hadjar made his second pit stop just five laps after his first, and was able to again rejoin ahead of Lawson and the group of cars that were being slowed down behind him. This meant that Hadjar had completed both his mandatory pit stops whilst remaining ahead of cars whom had not yet made either of theirs. On lap 28 leader Verstappen, who had being running long with the hope of making an overcut on Piastri, made his first pit stop and rejoined in fourth, the same position he had been in before the pit stop phase of the race. On lap 37 Alonso, running in sixth with one stop left to make, suffered an engine failure which ended his hopes for a first points finish of the season. Alonso was able to pull off through a gap in the barriers, thus no intervention was necessary. 10th-placed Carlos Sainz Jr. was using the same tactics seen earlier from Lawson to help his Williams teammate Alexander Albon. This frustrated the chasing George Russell of Mercedes to the point where on lap 50 Russell passed Albon by cutting the Nouvelle Chicane, ostensibly due to Albon's "erratic driving". Russell refused to return the position, stating over radio that he would rather take a penalty then remain stuck behind the Williams. In response to this radio, the stewards imposed a harsher than usual drive-through penalty for the illegal overtake.

At the same time, Norris made his second and final pit stop which left him behind Verstappen, who still had one stop left to make. Verstappen decided to delay his pit stop as much as possible in the hope that a safety car or red flag might be deployed, which would possibly allow him to make his stop and remain in the lead. Norris, on fresh tyres, quickly caught Verstappen but was unable to pass, leading to him being caught by Leclerc and Piastri. Despite the gap to Leclerc reaching as little as half a second, Norris held his lead, and when Verstappen finally pitted on lap 77, retook the lead, then set the fastest lap on the final lap, winning his first Monaco Grand Prix and sixth Grand Prix overall by three seconds. Leclerc and Piastri completed the podium whilst both Racing Bulls drivers took their best results in a Grand Prix to date, with Hadjar in sixth and Lawson in eighth respectively – the latter scoring his first points of the season.

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