F1 LIVE | Ferrari keeps their pace while Leclerc goes quickest

Ferrari currently look like the team to beat with Charles Leclerc being the faster of the two Scuderia drivers topping both sessions in an assertive fashion.

His teammate Lewis Hamilton seemed to find an extra gear in FP2 where he finished just 0.105s adrift of Leclerc's leading time.

McLaren also looks quick, but as it has often been the case this year, the MCL39 behaves a tad unruly when driven in anger and in low fuel on soft tyres, and Oscar Piastri seems to be the ideal man to tame it splitting both Ferrari's, and with teammate Lando Norris failing to extract the full potential of the papaya car.

At Red Bull, the outlook has certainly changed going into Saturday with Max Verstappen and his team, ahead of the weekend doubting their chances to score a good result, now confident they can beat their title rivals, McLaren. An upgrade in the form of a brake cooling inlet was the talk of the paddock on Friday with the team's chief advisor remaining somewhat mysterious about it.

Mercedes, despite being able to count on its strong qualifying pace in previous rounds, in Monaco the W16 has proven to be off the pace with neither driver, George Russell or Andrea Kimi Antonelli, being able to sneak into the top 5 in either practice session.