Monaco qualifying is a game of nerve about when to leave the garage, and this session rewarded the two teams willing to leave it latest. The rubber laid down across twelve minutes was worth roughly three tenths, most of it found through the swimming pool complex.
Pole came with a lap the driver described as “one mistake short of the wall in four places”. The onboard supports him: two corrections at the exit of Tabac alone.
Race day here is usually a procession, but a two-stop strategy window opened by tyre degradation could make Sunday genuinely uncertain.
