Sergio Perez tops final Monaco F1 practice as Red Bull hit back against Ferrari

In what was a 🅘very entertaining FP3 session, Perez, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen all exchanged times at the top of the timesheets in the final hour of🃏 running.
Perez’s advantage over teammate Verstappen remained with the Mexican looking at one with the Red Bull RB18 around the 🍷tight🌟 Monte Carlo streets.
The two-time F1 winner rose to the top of the timesheets in 💯th🧜e final 10 minutes, beating Leclerc by less than a tenth of a second to set a 1m12.476s.
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Perez’s form around Monaco this weekend comes as a surprise given that he’s never qualified higher tha🃏n seventh in his career.
F🔯errari continue to have better pace in the middle part of the lap but Perez was unable to be matched in the first sector and final sectors, suggesting t🦩hat he’s able to keep his tyres in the right window.
The top two were in a league of their own with Sainz 0.3sཧ shy in thiꦦrd, just ahead of reigning champion Verstappen.
Pierre Gasly continued his good form for Alph🦋aTauri, securing fifth albeit with a 0.7s margin to Perez.
Lando Norris was six𒅌th f🌟or McLaren ahead of three-time Monaco GP winner Lewis Hamilton.
Kevin Magnu🌟ssen finished eighth ahead of George Russell, who was impeded by Perez on one of his laps.
The incident ha♏s been referred to the stewards and most likely will result in a reprimand for the Red Bull driver.
Fernando Alonso rounded out the top 10 for Alpiℱne.
Yuki Tsunoda was 11th in the second AlphaTauri, narrowly ahead of Haas' Mick 👍Sꦐchumacher and Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel.
Valtteri Bottas could only manage 14th in the Alfa Romeo as he continues 🦹to get up to speed after missing FP1 to due to an engine issue.
Following his crash in FP2✃, Daniel Ricciardo had a steady session, finishing 16th on the timesheets.
Qualifying in Monaco takes place at 3pm UK time.

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