Norris joins the list of Monaco polesitters, Hadjar equals his team’s best-ever Monaco qualifying result and no Mercedes drivers feature in Q3 for the first time in over three years. Here are the facts and statistics from qualifying at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix!
NORRIS ON POLE AT THE 2025 MONACO GRAND PRIX
Lando Norris secured pole position for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. This was the 11th pole position of his career, as well as his 11th pole with McLaren. He moved ahead of Alain Prost and equalled Kimi Raikkonen for fifth on the list of most poles with the team.
Norris moved ahead of Jochen Rindt to 36th on the all-time pole position list. No driver has previously ended their career with 11 pole positions.
Norris is the 38th different driver to have taken pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix in its history on the Formula 1 calendar. It was the first time he qualified in the top three for the Monaco race.
This was Norris’ first pole position since the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Norris took pole with a 1:09.954 – a new Track Record at the Monaco Grand Prix, bettering Lewis Hamilton’s former record from 2019 by 0.212 seconds. It was the first sub-1:10 lap in Monaco Grand Prix history.
McLaren secured their 12th pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix – one short of equalling Ferrari’s record. This is the first time a McLaren driver has secured pole position in Monaco since Fernando Alonso did so in 2007.
IN THE TOP TEN
Charles Leclerc missed out on pole position at his home race by 0.109 seconds. This was Leclerc’s first front row qualification since taking pole position at the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It was his fourth front row qualification in total at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen qualified fifth for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, ending a three-race streak of front row qualifications.
Lewis Hamilton reached Q3 for the first time in three races, recording his best qualifying result of the season so far with fourth place, though he was later demoted three positions on the grid as a result of impeding.
This was Hamilton’s best qualifying result since qualifying third for the 2024 Singapore Grand Prix, as well as his best qualifying result in Monaco since his 2019 pole position.
This was the fifth year in a row that both Ferrari drivers qualified in the top five for the Monaco Grand Prix.
Having not reached Q3 in 2025 prior to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso reached Q3 for the second consecutive race at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying in seventh place.
Esteban Ocon made the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix only the third time that a Haas driver qualified in the top ten in Monaco. Kevin Magnussen was the last Haas driver to do so, in 2019.
With eighth place, Ocon recorded his best qualifying result of the season to date. It was his second Q3 appearance of the year.
On their first Monaco Grand Prix appearances, both Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar reached Q3. They join Juan Pablo Montoya, Mark Webber, Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg in the group of drivers with a 100% Q3 appearance rate at the event.
This was the first double Q3 appearance for the Red Bull junior team at the Monaco Grand Prix since 2019.
Lawson reached Q3 for the first time since the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Hadjar reached Q3 for the fourth time this year, recording the best qualifying result of his career.
With sixth place, Hadjar equalled the Red Bull junior team’s best-ever Monaco Grand Prix qualifying result. Carlos Sainz qualified sixth with the team in 2017, while Pierre Gasly qualified sixth in 2021.
Alex Albon qualified tenth for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. He remains the only Williams driver to reach Q3 in Monaco since 2012, having also done so in 2024.
Albon reached Q3 for the third consecutive race and qualified in the top ten for the sixth time in the eight Grands Prix so far in 2025.
Albon out-qualified team-mate Carlos Sainz for the first time since the Japanese Grand Prix.
This is the first time Williams have reached Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix in consecutive seasons since 2011 and 2012.
ELIMINATED IN Q2
Both Mercedes drivers were out in Q2 at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. This was the first time since 2008 (when the team was Honda) that the Brackley-based team failed to reach Q3 with either car at the Monaco Grand Prix.
This was the first time since the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix that neither Mercedes driver reached Q3. It was only the seventh time it has happened since Mercedes re-joined the sport. Before the 2022 Imola race, the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix was the previous time no Mercedes drivers appeared in Q3.
George Russell failed to qualify in the top five for the first time this season. This was the first time Russell missed out on a place in Q3 since exiting in Q1 at the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Kimi Antonelli crashed out at the end of Q1 and did not compete in Q2. He therefore exited in Q2 for a second consecutive race weekend, recording his worst qualifying result since exiting in Q1 at the Australian Grand Prix.
For the first time in his Formula 1 career, Carlos Sainz failed to reach Q3 at the Monaco Grand Prix, qualifying in 11th. It ended a streak of four consecutive Q3 appearances for the Williams driver, and a streak of two double Q3 appearances for the team.
This was the fifth year in a row that Sainz was out-qualified by his team-mate at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Yuki Tsunoda qualified 12th, failing to reach Q3 for the second consecutive race weekend. This was the first time since his maiden season in 2021 that Tsunoda was out-qualified by a team-mate at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Nico Hulkenberg qualified 13th for the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, his second-best qualifying result of the year after qualifying 12th for the Chinese Grand Prix.
Of his 12 appearances at the Monaco Grand Prix, Hulkenberg has been eliminated in Q2 on ten occasions.
OUT IN Q1
Lance Stroll exited in Q1 at the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix, recording his fifth Q1 exit in Monaco equalling Marcus Ericsson’s record of most Q1 eliminations at the event.
Stroll was out-qualified by team-mate Fernando Alonso for the 20th consecutive Grand Prix weekend. He qualified on the back row for the fourth time this season.
Ollie Bearman exited in Q1 for the third consecutive race.
Gabriel Bortoleto was eliminated in Q1 for the first time since the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
With both Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto out in Q1, the Enstone team recorded a double Q1 exit at the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time.
Gasly recorded his second Q1 elimination in seven Monaco Grand Prix appearances. He was last out in Q1 here in 2022.
Colapinto qualified in 20th place for the first time in his career.
