F1 Monaco Grand Prix 2024 LIVE: Third practice updates, results and qualifying start time and schedule

1. Max Verstappen – 161 points

2. Charles Leclerc – 113 points

3. Sergio Perez – 107 points

4. Lando Norris – 101 points

5. Carlos Sainz – 93 points

6. Oscar Piastri – 53 points

7. George Russell – 44 points

8. Lewis Hamilton – 35 points

9. Fernando Alonso – 33 points

10. Yuki Tsunoda – 15 points

11. Lance Stroll – 11 points

12. Oliver Bearman – 6 points

13. Nico Hulkenberg – 6 points

14. Daniel Ricciardo – 5 points

15. Esteban Ocon – 1 point

16. Kevin Magnussen – 1 point

17. Alex Albon – 0 points

18. Zhou Guanyu – 0 points

19. Pierre Gasly – 0 points

20. Valtteri Bottas – 0 points

21. Logan Sargeant – 0 points

Lewis Hamilton raised the prospect of challenging at the sharp end of the grid for the Monaco Grand Prix after he finished second in practice.

Hamilton earlier put his Silver Arrows at the top of the order in the first session and later in the day ended up just 0.188 seconds behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.

1. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) – 1:11.278
2. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) +0.188
3. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) +0.475
4. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.535
5. Lando Norris (McLaren) +0.675
6. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) +0.684
7. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) +0.784
8. Sergio Perez (Red Bull) +0.821
9. Alex Albon (Williams) +0.979
10. George Russell (Mercedes) +0.982
11. Yuki Tsunoda (RB)
12. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)
13. Kevin Magnussen (Haas)
14. Esteban Ocon (Alpine)
15. Nico Hulkenberg (Haas)
16. Daniel Ricciardo (RB)
17. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
18. Logan Sargeant (Williams)
19. Valtteri Bottas (Sauber)
20. Zhou Guanyu (Sauber)

The treacherous twists and turns of the Circuit de Monaco have not been kind to this small principality’s prodigal son. It took until 2022 – after two retirements and one devastating failure to make the start line after qualifying on pole, with a Covid cancellation thrown in the middle – for Charles Leclerc to finish his home grand prix. And even that was ruined by a strategy failure, confining him to fourth after also qualifying on pole.

Two years on, the Ferrari driver is heading into his sixth Monaco Grand Prix having never stood in the royal box overlooking the main straight, with Monaco the only race not to have an official podium for the top-three drivers. There is nowhere Leclerc, currently second in the world championship and trailing Max Verstappen by 48 points after seven races, would rather ignite a title challenge than here. The taste of winning champagne would hit different. You can bet it’d be expensive, too.

“Second or third is not really something that excites me,” Leclerc said on Thursday. “The win is what we need to target. We’ve seen in the last few races that Red Bull, McLaren and ourselves are pretty close in qualifying and we know how important qualifying is here so we’ll have to put everything together.

“If we are on pole, then that will give us a good chance to get what we want, which is a win.”

• Free practice 3: 11:30am
• Qualifying: 3pm

The Monaco Grand Prix will be broadcast live on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom – and ESPN in the United States. Sky’s coverage of Sunday’s race starts at 12:30pm (BST).

Highlights of qualifying in the UK will be aired on free-to-air Channel 4 at 7:30pm (BST) on Saturday evening; the race highlights are at 6:30pm (BST) on Sunday.

Sky Sports subscribers can watch all the action at Monaco on the Sky Go app. If you’re not a Sky customer you can grab a NOWTV Day Pass here to watch without a subscription.

Formula 1 returns to one of the most prestigious venues on the calendar as the famous Circuit de Monaco plays host to the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc completed the podium and this weekend will compete at his home race where, following years of near-misses, he is yet to secure a top-three finish.

Verstappen won last year’s race in Monaco, setting it up after a pulsating qualifying lap denied Fernando Alonso pole position, while Lewis Hamilton is a three-time winner around the tight twists and turns of the principality.