{"id":463938,"date":"2026-06-06T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:08:08","slug":"live-mercedes-strikes-back-in-monaco-fp3-with-qualifying-fight-delicately-poised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463938\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Mercedes strikes back in Monaco FP3 with qualifying fight delicately poised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari heads into the third and final hour of free practice at the Monaco Grand Prix looking to make it a clean sweep of the preparation sessions.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Home hero Charles Leclerc topped FP1 before Lewis Hamilton in the other SF-26 took over for FP2.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, the Monegasque driver dominated practice in the Principality a year ago, before falling short in qualifying, so whilst the Scuderia has failed to shake its &#8216;favourites&#8217; tag, it is far from a done deal around a circuit that is notoriously difficult to overtake at on Sunday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen has defied expectations with a strong showing so far around the streets of Monte Carlo, and will look to consolidate that on qualifying Saturday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes is anticipated to come to the fore when it matters, but George Russell and Kimi Antonelli have looked a shade off the Ferraris. How will they fare in FP3?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>McLaren has work to do after Lando Norris endured a heavily curtailed second hour of running on Friday, with Oscar Piastri only able to go seventh fastest in that session.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Follow along with the RacingNews365 live coverage of FP3 at the Monaco Grand Prix below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari heads into the third and final hour of free practice at the Monaco Grand Prix looking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-463938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}