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With Leclerc having narrowly topped Perez in the earlier session, Ferrari and Red Bull, who between them have shared all six victories and pole positions this season, looked set for another close battle in the opening stages of P2.

Leclerc exchanged fastest times with Perez and Verstappen during the first half of the session, before completing a lap that they were simply unable to challenge.

Sainz, who has repeatedly failed to keep pace with Leclerc during the opening races of the season, on this occasion had a response, setting a time that suggests he will be in the hunt for pole position alongside his team-mate in qualifying on Saturday.

Before then, Saturday morning’s third and final practice session could prove crucial, with Verstappen likely to seek improvements that will at least enable him to be the fastest driver in his own team, as he seeks to extend a streak of three successive victories.

With overtaking hugely difficult at the street circuit, qualifying at Monaco represents perhaps the most important Saturday of the season, with pole position providing a massive advantage on Sunday.

However, Leclerc, who has failed to finish the race in each of his three F1 appearances at his home circuit, will take nothing for granted as he seeks to regain the championship lead he lost to Verstappen when an engine failure saw him retire from the lead in Barcelona last weekend.

After coming away from Barcelona feeling hugely positive, Friday in Monaco appeared to bring Hamilton back down to earth as he struggled from the outset with “crazy bouncing” on his Mercedes.

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Not for the first time this season, his younger team-mate Russell appeared to cope better with the challenging car, and was the far more competitive of the Silver Arrows.

Speaking to Sky Sports F1 between the two sessions, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted the team faced a dilemma in terms of balancing the performance of the car with driver comfort.

Mercedes posted on social media that Hamilton’s request for additional padding on his elbows during the first session had been addressed for the second, but that did not appear to aid the seven-time world champion.

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