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Lewis Hamilton takes part in the late crash drama, while Charles Leclerc remains to beat

Lewis Hamilton suffered a late crash in the last training session for the Grand Prix of Monaco, in which Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc will go into qualifying as a favorite.

With only two minutes, and Hamilton, who follows Leclercs leading time of 1: 10.953s, the seven-time F1 champion hit a barrier on the top of the hill.

Hamilton seemed to be caught clearly when he crossed his forehead with two slower cars in front of him, Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli and the Haas by Esteban Ocon. However, the stewards decided that no investigations were required.

The 40-year-old hit a barrier with the right side of his car, lost his right tire and left his team with his work to prepare his car for the qualification.

It brought out the red flags and had Leclerc preserved with almost three tenths of Red Bulls Max Verstappen, whose best round was previously played in the session on the middle tires, since he was unable to get the softs up and running.

The McLaren duo was hard on Verstappen's heels, whereby Lando Norris 0.014S Adrift and Oscar Piatri were for another 0.151 seconds.

At least for Verstappen, it was another remarkable turnaround for him and his team for him and his team after their last suffering in practice on the opening day, with the Dutch driver at a low tenth tenth.

On the back of Leclerc's leading time from Friday from 1: 11,355, early running was of course on strong fuel, as is always the case with FP3.

After 15 minutes, only seven drivers had released times, led by Nico Hulkenberg, around 1: 13.916s, 0.023s in front of Hamilton. However, it was Hulkenberg who made the first significant mistake of the day into the last corner with a lock and held centimeters from a barrier.

Leclerc's first serious round let him shoot 1: 12.712 to the top of the working time table, although this was short -lived as Norris drove up by 0.365 years.

When the route was increasing and the teams of the teams continued, the Times fell, with Leclerc and Norris being at the top of the affairs when they exchanged the leadership, wob

After a further poor representation on Friday, Verstappen had to make improvements and was the first driver to fell under the 72-second mark and released a 1: 11.961 and significant on the middle tire compared to Norris and Leclerc on the softs.

In a later round, Verstappen improved to 1: 11,653s, only for the soft Leclerc, which is 0.121 years. So that the Dutch driver let the Ferrari duo to the sandwich of the Ferrari duo, when Hamilton was in third place, 0.344s shy, he had climbed off his team.

In halfway, Verstappen put the best round of the weekend to this point and lowered the benchmark to 1: 11.233S, again on the middle pirellis, which indicates a strong long -term pace for him and Red Bull and leaves Leclerc 0.224s.

After remaining 20 minutes, it was time for the more important qualifying simulations, and in his first soft tyre run in the session, Verstappen was slower than his leading time by 0.064 seconds.

Leclercs Maiden attempt only improved by 0.013s because the increase in the track temperature seemed to play its role.

However, Piatri improved at least significantly to jump on the second, but still shy 0.172 shy of Verstappen.

After five minutes there was a purple time on the board again, on this occasion by Hamilton in the first sector, just so that he breaks down his lap up to date with the swimming pool complex after he came across a slow Gabriel Bortoleto.

At this point, Leclerc increased the operation and delivered his round of Sub-71 seconds to leave Verstappen 0.280 Adrift before Hamilton brought the procedure to an early end.

Behind the McLarens took fifth place, followed by the Williams of Alex Albon, while Liam Lawson von Racing Bulls was again strong after his excellent exhibition on Friday. The New Zealander was in a Williams sandwich when Carlos Sainz was eight.

Red Bulls Yuki Tsunoda and Antonelli rounded off the top 10, the latter over a second back.

Franco Colapinto was again the slowest in his Alps and, after the Hamilton crash, was confronted against a likely punishment for a red-flag violation.

Haas driver Oliver Bearman received a penalty of 10 placements on Friday because he had overtaken Sainz in a red flag situation after Piatri lost his front wing in FP2.

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