Monaco Grand Prix: Max Verstappen top in second practice as Carlos Sainz crashes

The Monaco Grand Prix is unrecorded connected 5 Live and the BBC Sport website

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz crashed successful last signifier astatine the Monaco Grand Prix aft spending overmuch of the time competing for fastest time.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen acceptable the gait by 0.065 seconds from Leclerc.

Sainz was 3rd up of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso. Lewis Hamilton was lone sixth successful the upgraded Mercedes.

The erstwhile champions person introduced an upgrade to their car that features caller beforehand suspension, sidepods and level aft accepting astatine the commencement of the play that they had made a mistake by pursuing a unsocial plan absorption that has near them uncompetitive for the past 2 years.

Hamilton ended the league 0.498secs disconnected the pace, and erstwhile told wherever helium was losing retired to the fastest cars said implicit the radio: "Damn. The car won't spell overmuch quicker than that."

Hamilton was divided from the apical 4 by an awesome show from Lando Norris successful the McLaren, 5th fastest successful a car that has struggled for overmuch of the season.

Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez, the Dutchman's lone vaguely realistic rubric rival this year, was down successful seventh place.

On the grounds of Friday, the play looks acceptable to beryllium a contention betwixt Red Bull, Ferrari and Alonso, with the satellite champions perchance facing a tougher situation than astatine astir different tracks truthful acold this year.

Sainz was the astir awesome Ferrari operator for overmuch of the day, portion Leclerc was struggling to get adjacent to the Spaniard.

But coming to the extremity of his bid of laps connected the softest tyre, Sainz misjudged his introduction to the 2nd portion of the Swimming Pool and deed the wrong obstruction a glancing blow.

That broke his suspension and sent him into the obstruction connected the extracurricular successful a virtual c transcript of the clang Leclerc suffered successful qualifying past year.

Valtteri Bottas, driving an upgraded Alfa Romeo, was eighth fastest, with the Alpines of Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon completing the apical 10.

Alex Albon, who crashed his Williams astatine the extremity of the archetypal league earlier successful the day, missed overmuch of the 2nd arsenic the squad repaired his car. He got retired for a fewer laps astatine the extremity but ended up slowest of all.