| 09:50:28
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and our live coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix. Today we have two 90-minute practice sessions, the first of which gets underway shortly. |
| 09:52:25
| Following the Spanish Grand Prix, the teams travelled to Paul Ricard to test for four days. Two days were given over to Monaco running and Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets on both days. |
| 09:54:25
| As ever at Monaco, the teams have as many wings and aero devices as they can to try and find more downforce and therefore more grip. Bridgestone have supplied the soft and the super-soft options for the weekend in the bid to gain yet more grip. |
| 09:56:35
| Once again expect the battle at the head of the timesheets to be between McLaren and Ferrari, although by its very nature, Monaco can spring a few surprises. |
| 09:58:19
| This morning they will all work on basic car setup, probably on the harder of the option tyres. Later today they will be looking to complete relatively long runs to simulate race conditions. |
| 10:00:42
| The session is now underway. |
| 10:01:13
| As ever they will all head out and complete an installation lap and return to the pits for checks. |
| 10:02:19
| Those out early include Liuzzi, Sutil and Webber. Coulthard starts a second lap in his Red Bull Renault. |
| 10:02:44
| Kovalainen, Hamilton and others now head out. |
| 10:03:58
| Coulthard now pits as Alonso and Heidfeld head out. Red Bull is being monitored closely by the FIA this weekend after allegations of a flexing rear wing in Barcelona. |
| 10:04:58
| Now just Albers and Davidson on track as they complete their installation lap. |
| 10:06:04
| They both pit and its is the turn of Jenson Button on track. It seems Honda have some revised bodywork here at Monaco. Barrichello said the revisions could be worth half a second a lap. |
| 10:06:50
| Now Barrichello joins his team-mate on track. Fisichella and Sato also out. No one has yet set a lap time. |
| 10:07:43
| Button stays out to start a second lap as Fisichella and Sato pit. |
| 10:08:15
| Now Button also pits. No sign yet of the Ferrari or Williams pair. |
| 10:09:50
| Barrichello has now pitted. No one on track at the moment. |
| 10:10:33
| Jarno Trulli heads out in his Toyota. |
| 10:14:22
| After a quick pit stop, Trulli is now starting his first timed lap of the session. He remains the only driver on track. |
| 10:15:54
| Trulli records a 1:24s lap as Scott Speed heads out in his Toro Rosso. |
| 10:17:03
| In the same session last year, Alonso set the pace with a lap of 1:16.7s. Parts of the circuit have been resurfaced this year and there is a lot of time to come. |
| 10:17:30
| Trulli improves by three second as Ralf Schumacher heads back out in his Toyota. |
| 10:18:50
| Trulli continues to improve each time around. Speed records his first lap of the session as does Ralf Schumacher. |
| 10:19:50
| Liuzzi, Sutil, Hamilton and Albers join the action. |
| 10:20:44
| Alex Wurz is out in his Williams. He has had a tough return to F1 after so many years as a test driver. |
| 10:21:01
| Hamilton vaults to the top of the timesheets on his very first lap. |
| 10:21:25
| Alonso is on track in the sister McLaren Mercedes. |
| 10:22:28
| Hamilton improves by six tenths on his next lap and is now significantly faster than Trulli who has pitted. |
| 10:23:10
| Nico Rosberg joins his Williams team-mate on track. |
| 10:23:42
| Ralf Schumacher has moved ahead of Trulli as Hamilton returns to the McLaren pit. |
| 10:24:01
| Alonso's first lap moves him third fastest. |
| 10:25:20
| Christijan Albers has stopped his Spyker Ferrari with a mechanical problem. |
| 10:25:42
| The red flags are out. |
| 10:26:41
| The team will hope to get the car back to the pits so that they can work on the car and try and get it back in action as soon as possible. |
| 10:29:09
| Albers' car has been removed from the strack so the circuit should go green soon. |
| 10:29:19
| The session is now back underway. |
| 10:29:51
| The Ferrari duo of Massa and Raikkonen head out for the first time. |
| 10:30:13
| Kovalainen, Fisichella, Coulthard and Rosberg are also straight back out. |
| 10:30:53
| Adrian Sutil is back out in the surviving Spyker. Kubica, Liuzzi and others also on track. |
| 10:32:30
| Massa moves seventh on his first lap, Raikkonen not so fast. |
| 10:32:58
| Kubica vaults up the order for BMW Sauber. |
| 10:33:18
| A busy circuit now as Hamilton heads back out. |
| 10:33:36
| Massa moves second fastest |
| 10:33:57
| Raikkonen improves and is up to fourth position. |
| 10:34:50
| Alonso is now some way down the order, but on a faster lap than he has done before. |
| 10:35:18
| Changes at the top as Massa moves P1 ahead of Hamilton and Fisichella. |
| 10:35:41
| Alonso improves and is up to third but Hamilton is on a much faster lap. |
| 10:36:25
| Hamilton regains the top spot by some margin. |
| 10:37:36
| Kovalainen is taking his time getting up to speed as he is just 18th at the moment. |
| 10:38:19
| Kubica find some time and regains the third position he held earlier. |
| 10:38:47
| Alonso improves a little and demotes Kubica as Hamilton and Massa also find small gains. |
| 10:39:54
| Kimi Raikkonen moves third, close to the pace of Massa, but now Alono moves ahead of both to make it a McLaren one-two. |
| 10:41:42
| Button remains in the pits and has not set a time yet. Barrichello is on track in his Honda and should set a time soon. Liuzzi has also not set a time. |
| 10:42:48
| At this stage, Alonso doesn't seem to have the pace to challenge his team-mate. |
| 10:43:38
| Massa and Raikkonen have both pitted. The McLaren duo remain on track. |
| 10:44:30
| Nick Heidfeld is working his way up the order and getting closer to the pace of Kubica. There's some hype about Heidfeld this year, but Kubica is doing just as good a job, just with less luck. |
| 10:45:14
| Barrichello is putting in his first timed laps now as Button joins his Honda team-mate on track. Most have returned to the pits now. |
| 10:45:55
| As Hamilton pits, the Honda duo have the track to themselves. |
| 10:46:11
| Now Barrichello pits and it is just Button on track. |
| 10:47:23
| We have just passed the halfway stage in the session and its is McLaren ahead of Ferrari, BMW, Renault and Red Bull. |
| 10:47:40
| Nico Rosberg joins Button on track. |
| 10:50:23
| Fisichella, running well so far, is back out in his Renault. |
| 10:50:51
| Coulthard moves ahead of team-mate Webber. |
| 10:51:41
| Kubica is back out in his BMW Sauber as Button moves eighth fastest. |
| 10:54:12
| Kubica and Fisichella seem pretty evenly matched on this run. Massa is back out and needs to find a full seven-tenths to beat Hamilton's time. |
| 10:55:02
| Kovalainen is moving up a few positions from the bottom of the timesheets. He is still a long way off the pace of Fisichella. |
| 10:56:53
| Liuzzi is back out. He must be having all sorts of problems as he has been in and out of the pits all morning. |
| 10:57:21
| Raikkonen is on track in his Ferrari. |
| 10:58:51
| Liuzzi finally sets a lap time. Toro Rosso has had a lot of reliability issues with the car this year. Alonso is back out. |
| 10:59:14
| Massa improves and moves ahead of Alonso and into second. |
| 10:59:44
| Alonso is looking fast as he starts a timed lap. |
| 11:01:38
| Alonso puts in a fast lap and moves fastest by six tenths of a second. Alonso was on the super-soft tyres for that lap. |
| 11:02:49
| So Alonso was six tenths off Hamilton on the soft tyre. He bolts on the super-soft set and is the same margin faster. That is quite a difference in tyre performance. |
| 11:03:41
| Raikkonen continues to improve slightly and is now ahead of Massa who remains in the pits. |
| 11:05:03
| Wurz finds some time and moves his Williams Toyota into tenth position. |
| 11:08:26
| After his hot lap, Alonso's pace has really dropped off. The super-soft is very fast for one lap, but not very fast on a longer run and actually slower than the soft. |
| 11:09:02
| Hamilton tested the tyre at Paul Ricard, but this is Alonso's first taste of the super-soft tyre as it has not been used so far this year at Grand Prix. |
| 11:09:40
| Nick Heidfeld has moved up the order to third |
| 11:11:30
| Alonso pits. He now knows that those tyres are good for a few laps but not a lot more. |
| 11:13:40
| Sato picks up a few positions and is up to 13th. He and the team were delighted to score their first point together last time out in Spain. |
| 11:14:57
| Heidfeld is having the same issue as Alonso on these super-soft tyres as his lap times are dropping away wildly. Again, good for a couple of laps and then slower and slower. |
| 11:16:58
| Not a lot of action at the moment. Heidfeld is on a longish stint, Massa, Kubica and Rosberg are on track. |
| 11:18:46
| Heidfeld pits his BMW Sauber. |
| 11:20:21
| Massa, Button and Sato are on track with ten minutes remaining. |
| 11:21:52
| Alonso is back out in his McLaren Mercedes. Raikkonen also back out. |
| 11:25:22
| Scott Speed moves into the top ten in his Toro Rosso. About half of the field is now on track. |
| 11:25:35
| Fisichella moves fourth fastest. |
| 11:26:16
| Fisichella goes off heading into turn one. He has hit the wall and that is the endof his session. |
| 11:27:13
| The Renault is quickly removed and the session remains under green conditions. |
| 11:28:22
| Kovalainen meanwhile is improving slightly in the second R27. |
| 11:28:53
| Hamilton has remained in the pits and has not been temmpted to try of the softest tyres to beat his team-mate's best time. |
| 11:29:36
| Nico Rosberg moves sixth fastest while Barrichello moves into the top ten. |
| 11:30:03
| Now Webber takes over P6 in his Red Bull. |
| 11:30:10
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 11:31:31
| A problem for Webber. He has left rear tyre issue. |
| 11:32:43
| Webber must have clipped the wall. |
| 11:33:35
| While Webber grinds to a halt we have a McLaren one-two with Alonso leading Hamilton. Nick Heidfeld, like Alonso tried the super-soft tyre to set his time ahead of Fisichella, Raikkonen, Webber and Rosberg. |
