Charles on the F1 Monaco pole! By Peter Windsor

Ferrari followed-up their stunning 1-2 on Thursday with a classic 1-4 in Monaco qualifying - although Charles Leclerc brought the afternoon to a premature close by clanging into the barriers at the slow end of the swimming-pool section.

No matter. It's the first Ferrari pole in F1 since Mexico, 2019 - and it has been won by a Monagasque. Peter Windsor, in Monaco, sums up the events.

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