Big Hadjar crash as Ferrari leads Monaco GP practice

Ferrari secured a 1-2 in first practice for the Monaco Grand Prix, a session that was twice interrupted by red flags including for a sizeable shunt for Red Bull Formula 1 driver Isack Hadjar.

It was home favourite Charles Leclerc who led the way, with his 1m13.978s on mediums - which was two seconds slower than his benchmark from FP1 in 2025 - leaving him two tenths clear of Lewis Hamilton.

Max Verstappen was third, half a second off in his RB22.

But it was the other Red Bull driver who was responsible for the session's biggest talking point with just under 25 minutes left in the hour-long session.

Moments after defending F1 champion Lando Norris had a significant slide in the middle of the swimming pool chicane, Hadjar had an even bigger oversteer moment and lost the rear of his car.

That sent him nose-first into the outside wall, with the impact also ripping the left-rear wheel off his car.

Hadjar reported he was OK to his team but added: "I don't understand why it snapped like that. I'm sorry."

It was after his crash, in the final 15 minutes of the session, that most drivers set their best times - though that wasn't the case for Mercedes duo Kimi Antonelli and George Russell, who ended up fourth and fifth fastest.

Championship leader Antonelli did spend a spell at the top of the times after switching to the medium tyre and again looked more comfortable than team-mate Russell; though they were next to each other in the final classification, they were separated by four and a half tenths.

Norris was the faster of the two McLarens in sixth, 1.3s off the pace, with team-mate Oscar Piastri eighth and a further quarter of a second behind.

McLaren again trialled a new front first introduced in Canada, with Piastri - who also had a near-miss with Racing Bulls driver Arvid Lindblad at Tabac - twice called in for a nose change.

The two McLarens were split by Nico Hulkenberg, comfortably the standout performer among the midfield contenders for Audi, which also had Gabriel Bortoleto in ninth.

Pierre Gasly completed the top 10 for Alpine.

Fernando Alonso caused the session's second red flag inside the final five minutes when he lost the rear of his Aston Martin exiting the tunnel and grazed the barrier with his front-right corner.

That littered debris all over the run down to the Nouvelle chicane, though Alonso - who ended the session 20th, 2.7s off the pace - was able to recover his car to the pits with only front wing damage.

Aston Martin's fellow backmarker Cadillac caught the eye through Sergio Perez, who ended the session 14th and three tenths away from the top 10.

That was flattered by Perez running the soft tyre - Cadillac was the only team to use that compound in FP1 - but he had been in a similar position on the initial hard-tyre runs at the start of the session.

Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson was noted at the end of the session for leaving the pitlane when the red light was on as the field headed back out following Alonso's crash.

He and team-mate Lindblad had earlier complained on their first laps that they were struggling to generate sufficient steering lock to navigate the Fairmont hairpin. Lindblad ended the session 18th, one place ahead of Lawson.

FP1 result

1 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m13.978s
2 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +0.226s
3 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.513s
4 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +0.559s
5 George Russell (Mercedes) +1.005s
6 Lando Norris (McLaren) +1.313s
7 Nico Hulkenberg (Audi) +1.365s
8 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +1.587s
9 Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) +1.772s
10 Pierre Gasly (Alpine) +1.850s
11 Alex Albon (Williams) +2.011s
12 Carlos Sainz (Williams) +2.063s
13 Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) +2.170s
14 Sergio Perez (Cadillac) +2.192s
15 Franco Colapinto (Alpine) +2.211s
16 Ollie Bearman (Haas) +2.314s
17 Esteban Ocon (Haas) +2.355s
18 Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) +2.411s
19 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +2.453s
20 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) +2.700s
21 Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) +3.482s
22 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) +3.578s