“Chaos” and “pandemonium” are words used by Sky reporters for what is happening now on the grid.
Brundle: “Why the safety car? They have the tires … go! Let’s run. The track isn’t even that wet.”
Updated at 14.05 BST
Some teams now opt for wet tires.
Sorry, I said the race started at 13.09 in the UK, of course I meant at 14.09.
Updated at 14.03 BST
Race Control Message: The training lap will start behind the safety car.
Updated at 14.02 BST
Giles Richards, our man in Monaco, tells me it might be a safe car outing!
Due to the rain, which arrived minutes before the lights went out, the departure has been delayed until 2:09 pm UK time.
The weather has been boiling in Monaco all week, so a cloud bursting just before the start will add a significant amount of danger.
Updated at 14.02 BST
“Many countries now want an F1 race, maybe they should split into two tours,” he sent an email to Phillip Haran. “A classic set of races and a set of sports wash. There could be two world champions or one combined general where the three worst races are ruled out. “
It’s an idea.
Matt Doherty and Eric Dier from Tottenham are in Monaco!
“My mom is Dutch, so I have to go for Max,” Doherty says.
Good curiosities.
Dier says: “We’re with Red Bull, so we hope the Red Bulls can do a good job and get ahead of the Ferraris.”
“Before you turned on the cameras, you said something completely different,” laughs Nico Rosberg.
“They [Red Bull] will be upset with me!
“Lewis,” Dier admits.
Updated at 13.52 BST
“I think if I can stay at P5 I’ll be very happy,” Lando Norris of McLaren told Natalie Pinkham of Sky Sports. “We’ll have our heads down.”
In the meantime, it’s raining on the circuit! According to presenters, it is going down quite a bit. Will this affect the initial strategy?
“Monaco is always different, you have to concentrate. Starting ahead is the best thing you can have here, ”said former Ferrari driver Felipe Massa, who is crossing his fingers to win at the Scuderia.
There are just over 15 minutes left to get started.
Alain Prost is asked what advice he would give to the young riders on the grid: “I don’t think they need any advice. What they are showing, as young pilots, is truly outstanding. They have known for a few years what they are doing. I’m really interested in how they can handle a race like this, especially if it’s a little wet. “
“You only want to talk to favorites, don’t talk to me when I’m ‘down here’ [on the grid]”Toto Wolff of Mercedes jokes when Martin Brundle’s neck.” Okay, it’s good to be wrong sometimes, “Wolff adds about the team’s current struggles.
“Really?” Brundle replied.
“Yes, it will prepare us for more success in the future,” Wolff replies.
On Hamilton, he adds: “You can see the maturity. He’s doing very well … he’s a team player.”
Please note that these entertaining dates are courtesy of Sky Sports F1.
Updated at 13.41 BST
Ferrari team manager Mattia Binotto: “I hope it doesn’t rain … it’s good to be in the front row … we will do everything we can, as a team, to get the most out of the race. “It simply came to our notice then.
Pierre Gasly (Scuderia AlphaTauri) says: “It won’t rain from our radar … but I told the whole team to do the rain dance, because that’s what we need.”
“The favorite must be Charles [Leclerc]but we have to go for it, “Christian Horner tells Brundle.
Lewis Hamilton said only a wet race could save him from more misery at the Monaco Grand Prix.
When local favorite Charles Leclerc took his third pole in so many races, Hamilton fell to eighth place, two places behind his Mercedes teammate George Russell.
“I don’t do any dancing, but I want it to rain, so I don’t just drive dry in eighth,” Hamilton said.
“You can’t move forward, so I hope the weather is good and maybe we can do a different strategy. We didn’t do very well in the low-speed laps in the last race, so I anticipated it would be difficult, but it’s worse than we were waiting because it is very bouncing.
“It would be nice to have some luck for once. I’ve been unlucky all year, so I’m sure it will stop at some point.” (PA)
Martin Brundle’s legendary network ride is go, go!
Grid positions after classification:
1 Charles Leclerc (Dl.) Ferrari 1min 11.376 s2 Carlos Sainz Jr. (Spa) Ferrari 1: 11.6013 Sergio Pérez (Mex) Red Bull 1: 11.6294 Max Verstappen (Ned) Red Bull 1: 11.6665 Lando Norris (Gbr) McLaren (Gbr) 1: 11.6665 George Russell (Gbr) Mercedes GP 1: 12.1127 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Alpine 1: 12.2478 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) Mercedes GP 1: 12.5609 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Aston Martin 1: 12.73210 Esteban Ocon (Fra) Alpine 1: 13.04711 (Jpn) Scuderia AlphaTauri 1: 12.79712 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Alfa Romeo Racing 1: 12.90913 Kevin Magnussen (Den) Haas F1 1: 12.92114 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) McLaren 1: 12.96415 Mick: Alexander Schumacher (1: 12.96415) (Tha) Williams 1: 13.61117 Pierre Gasly (Fra) Scuderia AlphaTauri 1: 13.66018 Lance Stroll (Can) Aston Martin 1: 13.67819 Nicholas Latifi (Can) Williams 1: 14.40320 Guanyu Zhou (Chn) Alfa Romeo Racing 1: 15606.
Updated at 13.32 BST
“It feels amazing” – Leclerc’s verdict on the snaffling pole:
“It feels amazing”: Leclerc wins pole position in Monaco while Verstappen finishes fourth: video
Updated at 13.19 BST
Preamble
Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen leads the drivers’ championship by six points, but Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, currently second in the standings, takes pole in Monaco this afternoon.
Is today the Leclerc Monegasque victory at home? Last year he went to the pole, despite a drop in qualifying, but it turned out that the derivation had made for his gearbox, and he could not even take his place on the grid to start the career.
Maybe your luck will be better today. It is famously difficult to overtake in Monaco, so the Ferrari driver is well prepared to jump to his rival Verstappen and take the lead in the race for the 2022 title. But the rain is not out of the question, and there will be to wait) some other elements of intrigue to spice up what Ferrari expects to be a procession. It’s on!
Lights off: 14:00 UK time / 15:00 Monaco time
Updated at 13.17 BST