It looks like Max Verstappen has been on the Red Bull to say the pace of this Monaco Grand Prix is really "boring". Yawn.

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It's a game of patience or a game of frustration depending on where you sit in this order.

Fernando Alonso was a Q1 knockout on Saturday but now the Spaniard finds himself up into 12th place after the early drama. The AstonMartin driver has Daniel Ricciardo and the Williams of Logan Sargeant are the cars on his rear wing.

Has there been any overtakes since the previous lap? Erm... no. It's as you were with Charles Leclerc leading from Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz.

Nulla Pax: The front 4 will also be able to do a stop as well though if the pack falls back!

Prior K: It seems top 4 of Leclerc, Piastri, Sainz & Norris are all within 5 seconds of each other. From a British perspective, I wouldn't write off Norris.

1. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

2. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

3. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)

4. Lando Norris (McLaren)

5. George Russell (Mercedes)

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We don't say it often in the last two years but an anonymous race for Max Verstappen in sixth.

This is a lonely race for three-time world champion, who is taking his Red Bull for a Sunday drive in sixth place. If the positions stay like this, with Charles Leclerc in first, the Dutchman's title lead will be cut.

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His Alpine team-mate has been slapped with a penalty, but Pierre Gasly is back in the action and sitting in the final points place in 10th. Yuki Tsunoda is eighth in his RB and Lewis Hamilton, on his medium tyres, is still seventh.

Lando Norris in running in fourth place in his Senna-inspired McLaren livery. George Russell is still keeping the pace to a satisfactory level for his Mercedes team, handing Norris a decent gap to play with if the safety car was to appear.

Can Oscar Piastri conjure up the Monaco curse and ruin Charles Leclerc's day? The Monegasque is holding firm in P1 with the Australian in second spot.

Meanwhile, Alex Albon is safely tucked up in ninth place and in a great position to score his an Williams' first points this season.

Piastri can smell a first grand prix win here and I think he is going to try and force Leclerc into some kind of mistake.

Esteban Ocon has been handed a 10-second penalty for his early collision with Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly, which will be turned into a grid drop for the Canadian Grand Prix.

Pirelli's prediction is that the hard tyres can last 65 laps, the race is only 78 laps long, Pirelli are normally a bit conservative about their tyres. I think these four [at the front] will get to the end.

The fastest lap of the race is camped at the name of Oscar Piastri, but the Australian is being level-headed not to go wild as the cars exit the Tunnel and into the Nouvelle Chicane. The Ferrari of Leclerc is half a second ahead of Piastri's McLaren.

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If Charles Leclerc can manage his tyres effectively by limiting the pace and try to get to the end, Piastri will have to mirror that strategy, he can't do anything else.

Valtteri Bottas is the first car to make a stop, heading to his Sauber mechanics to switch onto the hard tyres.

The opening-lap drama has now subsided and the Monaco Grand Prix has returned to its more usual processional state. Charles Leclerc leads from Oscar Piastri and Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz.

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David: Worst grand prix of the year, will you see an overtake??? Nope...all cruising

Rachel: The first two corners had 5 years worth of drama. That’s your lot folks

Russell is trying to maximise his own race and if they try and push and stick to the back of the top four, they will burn through those medium tyres and force him into a pit-stop earlier than they might want to.