F1 Monaco GP LIVE: Qualifying start time and schedule as Hamilton eyes first Ferrari pole - Follow live F1 updates from Monte-Carlo ahead of the most crucial qualifying of the year on Saturday

Scuderia Ferrari Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton secured a P3 start for the Monaco Grand Prix after setting the third fastest time behind Kimi Antonelli and Max Verstappen. However, he was quick to note,

George Russell, who trails Mercedes team-mate Antonelli by 43 points in the championship, will start P6, behind the second Red Bull of Isack Hadjar. The Briton will have his work cut out making any progress on Sunday, with overtaking notoriously difficult at Monaco.

Have Ferrari immediately confirmed their pre-weekend status as favourites in Monaco by finishing first and second in opening practice?; watch second practice later on Friday at 4pm with Qualifying on Saturday takes place at 3pm,

Ferrari have blasted the new F1 rule brought in by the FIA before this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.

Bruce McLaren, in a 1964 eulogy for late friend and fellow driver Timmy Mayer, said "life is measured in achievement, not in years alone" and more than ​60 years later his team are still living by the maxim.

It’s the safest bet in the drivers’ market, that Leclerc would stay with Ferrari for an undisclosed amount of time — the team’s announcement on Wednesday confirmed the extension was for “several more seasons”. But the big question is why, when he’s arguably in the prime of his career and yet to .