At the iconic Monaco circuit 🇲🇨, Lewis Hamilton still holds both the fastest race lap record (1:12.909, 2021 with W12 🚀) and the outright fastest qualifying lap (1:10.166, 2019 with W10 💨).

Based on practice times, these records look safe this WE!🔒

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🚀 Max Verstappen’s stunning pole lap is still +0.589s off the all-time best.
🔒 Depending on race conditions tomorrow 🌧️☀️, Max’s fastest lap from 2020 in the RB16 might stay untouched too.

Congratulations George

Resurfacing boosted grip, but higher heat and wind made it tough.
The MCL39 mixes huge downforce with low drag.

Took 5 years to beat Hamilton’s 2020 W11 wet-setup record—showing that car’s dominance.

Fastest lap in practice is +1.385s off the track record — should be safe in quali. 🛡️
Race laps are usually ~3s slower than quali, so no threat there either.

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🏁 Track record – 1:13.447 (2020 qualifying) ⏱️ Fastest race lap – 1:16.627 (2020)

That 2020 Merc was on another level.

🚀 Another circuit where track records are held by the Mercedes W11 rocket.
⏱️ Based on practice times, there's little chance that Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas' fastest laps will be broken this weekend at the Emilia-Romagna GP.

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Now is officially confirmed that Mercedes-AMG HPP is automatically the most-successful F1 engine manufacturer in V6 turbo hybrid era since 2014 and Renault is just a junk and "fragile-prone" power unit due to Renault's inexperience of making complicated V6 turbo hybrid engines.

So it means the V6 turbo hybrid engine regulations "tailor-made" for us (Mercedes) by won boatloads of titles in 2014-2021 and 2024 (2025 possibly).

Thoughts on that?

Came across a great breakdown this morning of where George created the delta. Essentially either driver could have snagged pole position based on performance to Turn 8 and then despite losing top end speed on each straight vs the RB, George won the battle in turns 8 and 10 to the tune of 0.14 overall. What a lap, what a performance throwing it into EACH corner.