How to watch the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix: Odds and schedule for F1 race in Monte Carlo

New York Times

23-05-2025

Max Verstappen's Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix victory last weekend temporarily reshaped the F1 outlook. Through the season's first seven races, Oscar Piastri has four first-place finishes and Verstappen now has two, while Lando Norris has been held off the top podium spot since 2025's opener in Australia. Sunday's eighth round, the 'jewel in the F1 crown,' goes down at Circuit de Monaco, with Piastri and Norris coming in as the clubhouse favorites.
Venue: Circuit de Monaco — Monte Carlo, Monaco
Dates: May 23-25
Race coverage can also be streamed on ESPN+.
Verstappen engineered a pass for the ages at the Emilia-Romagna GP, securing his fourth win at the Grand Prix in five total runs. That momentous win still puts the perpetual F1 champ in third place entering Sunday. Piastri has the No. 1 spot with 146 total points and six podiums through seven GPs, while his McLaren teammate Norris is in second with another six podiums and the season-opening Albert Park win.
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Last year's race was claimed by Charles Leclerc, the Monte Carlo native, in a career-defining spot. The last GP winner outside the 'big three' (Verstappen, Piastri and Norris) was George Russell, who won it at Las Vegas in November 2024.
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'Post-Monaco, Red Bull hopes the flexi-wing technical directive expected at the Spanish Grand Prix a week later will restore its place at the head of the pecking order. The directive targets flexible bodywork — especially rear wings — that can bend under load to reduce drag without breaking the rules. McLaren has clearly mastered this dark art in the past 12 months and rivals hope the directive forces it into car changes. McLaren denies that this will occur. But this, too, could help determine Verstappen's short-term employment fate.
'What isn't in question is that he has already achieved his F1 legend status — those four titles alone are enough for that. But if he's truly to have an arguable case for F1's 'Greatest Of All Time' standing — and here partisanship must be cast aside in what is always a subjective consideration — he needs something else to offer besides a pile of titles.'
'Q: Let's start with the obvious: what on earth possessed you to make this promise? (Asked with deep respect and admiration, of course.)
'A: I started making dumb promises to my (much smaller at the time) X following before each race. They were all phrased as 'incentives' for Oscar, but I'd tweet them knowing full well (and praying) he'd never see them. Oscar hadn't been on pole yet, so when China rolled around, I tweeted something like 'Oscar, if you qualify on pole for China, I'll never say anything bad about you ever again.' And, lo and behold, he did.'
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