• Starting top 10 on Sunday finished race in the same order
• ‘It’s not racing as such,’ says Red Bull principal Christian Horner

The Monaco Grand Prix is under pressure to find ways to adapt after a ­strikingly uneventful procession on the streets of Monte Carlo was won by Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc on Sunday.

The Monégasque’s first victory at his home race was delivered with calm command from pole, including a restart after a horrific opening-lap accident, in which the Red Bull of Sergio Pérez was all but destroyed. However, with the race red-flagged, the teams were able to change tyres, removing the requirement for a pit stop; what ensued was 75 laps of a turgid train to the finish line.

• Pair involved in huge accident on opening lap of race
• Pérez: ‘We need to ask why it’s not being investigated’

Sergio Pérez has condemned Kevin Magnussen for “dangerous driving” after the pair were involved in a huge accident at the Monaco Grand Prix and the Red Bull driver accused the Dane of being wilfully foolhardy when racing, after the Mexican was lucky to be able to climb from the wreckage of his car.

On the opening lap at Monte Carlo going up the hill after turn one, Pérez, who had started in 16th in front of the two Haas drivers, Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg, was clipped from behind by Magnussen at about 150mph. The Mexican’s car speared into the barriers and then rebounded across the track into the other wall. In the process both Haas cars were ­collected and seriously damaged.

• Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz make up podium
• Winner cuts title gap to Verstappen to 31 points

Charles Leclerc won the Monaco Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver taking his first victory at his home race and becoming the first Monégasque to win here since the Formula One world championship began in 1950.

Leclerc beat McLaren’s Oscar Piastri into second and his Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz into third in a race marked by a horrifying crash on the opening lap for Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez.

• Oscar Piastri second; Carlos Sainz third
• Champion Max Verstappen down in sixth

Charles Leclerc once more held his nerve on his home circuit to claim pole for the Monaco Grand Prix despite the pressure and an intensity of competition that made the outcome impossible to predict.

Theoretically qualifying is the hardest part of the weekend in Monte Carlo but Leclerc knows only too well he and his Ferrari team must now execute with absolute precision on Sunday if the 26-year-old is finally to see off his Monaco curse.

The world champion speaks on dealing with Red Bull’s internal strife, learning from mistakes and focusing on performance

Max Verstappen takes a breath, gathering his thoughts, the usually ebullient and unpredictable driver for once appearing stilted. It is almost as if he is assessing the parameters of what he can and cannot say, knowing his words carry more scrutiny than ever this season.

“The more I talk about it, the more people have to write,” he says, almost apologetically. “You write it down, you make a story out of it and people will pick up little things and it becomes a massive shit storm. You know what I mean? I tell you a story that might get translated to Spanish, Dutch, whatever. The more I say about it is not going to help the situation.”

• McLaren driver pushed Max Verstappen in tense Imola climax
• Norris revealed he watched golf and boxing the night before

Lando Norris said he was praying for just one more lap to have a shot at victory at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix after a thrilling final fight with Max Verstappen at Imola. The British driver also revealed he had been up the night before the race until 2am, watching the title-fight boxing and the US PGA Championship golf.

Verstappen held on to win at Imola but only after the final laps came alive as Norris hunted him down, closing to within under second and ultimately finishing just 0.725sec behind the world champion. The 24-year-old McLaren driver was convinced that with another lap he would have been able to try to make a pass on Verstappen.

• Norris unable to make move after Red Bull’s tyres wear down
• Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz third, Oscar Piastri fourth for McLaren

Max Verstappen took victory at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix but only after a spectacular finale when the Red Bull driver was hunted to the flag by McLaren’s Lando Norris, who could could not quite make the move and finished in second, with the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc third.

Oscar Piastri was fourth for McLaren, Carlos Sainz fifth for Ferrari while the Mercedes pair of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton made little impact, finishing in sixth and seventh.

• World champion equals Senna record of eight straight poles
• Oscar Piastri demoted to fifth so Lando Norris second on grid

Max Verstappen had to pull off a comeback he believed was the best he had managed for more than five years to claim pole position for the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, delivering a suitably superb lap under immense pressure that raised him to stand alongside Ayrton Senna with a record eighth consecutive pole.

In the year of the 30th anniversary of Senna’s death at Imola, Verstappen had to dig deep to deliver, after a torrid weekend during which he and Red Bull have struggled with the car’s grip and balance.