Monaco F2: De Vries dominates practice after Norris clash

De Vries was at the end of his in-lap when he nudged the back of fellow McLaren junior Norris' Carlin at Rascasse.

The contact prompted a front wing change for the Dutchman, but Norris managed to continue seemingly unaffected.

Antonio Fuoco was another driver to damage his front wing in the session after hitting the kerbs too hard on the exit of the second Swimming Pool chicane and making contact with the barriers.

After the first few minutes were used for a planned virtual safety car phase, the benchmark time of the 45-minute practice session was frequently lowered by the field.

Ralph Boschung was the first driver to go below 1m30s, but Norris, Artem Markelov, Sergio Sette Camara and Luca Ghiotto all led in the first half of the session.

Norris led his teammate Sette Camara as the final 10 minutes began with a 1m22.340s, but de Vries subsequently set his best time of 1m21.670s.

Norris was also narrowly edged out by Nicholas Latifi, the Canadian jumping up to second minutes after going off at Ste Devote.

Renault junior Jack Aitken made the same mistake but ended up fourth, followed by Sette Camara and DAMS driver Alexander Albon.

Markelov was seventh, the last driver to be less than a second slower than de Vries.

The Russian beat Louis Deletraz by 0.019s as Maximilian Gunther and Ghiotto completed the top 10.

ART's George Russell, having only completed four laps due to an engine failure, ended practice without a representative laptime, more than 20 seconds off the pace.

Practice results

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Nyck de Vries	Prema Powerteam	23	1'21.670
2	Nicholas Latifi	DAMS	26	1'22.320	0.650
3	Lando Norris	Carlin	26	1'22.340	0.670
4	Jack Aitken	ART Grand Prix	25	1'22.526	0.856
5	Sergio Sette Camara	Carlin	26	1'22.553	0.883
6	Alexander Albon	DAMS	22	1'22.604	0.934
7	Artem Markelov	RUSSIAN TIME	27	1'22.656	0.986
8	Louis Deletraz	Charouz Racing System	25	1'22.675	1.005
9	Maximilian Gunther	Arden International	26	1'22.772	1.102
10	Luca Ghiotto	Campos Racing	24	1'22.810	1.140
11	Ralph Boschung	MP Motorsport	22	1'22.814	1.144
12	Arjun Maini	Trident	27	1'22.860	1.190
13	Tadasuke Makino	RUSSIAN TIME	22	1'23.072	1.402
14	Sean Gelael	Prema Powerteam	27	1'23.193	1.523
15	Nirei Fukuzumi	Arden International	23	1'23.253	1.583
16	Antonio Fuoco	Charouz Racing System	17	1'23.548	1.878
17	Roberto Merhi	MP Motorsport	20	1'23.943	2.273
18	Santino Ferrucci	Trident	28	1'24.051	2.381
19	Roy Nissany	Campos Racing	26	1'25.047	3.377
20	George Russell	ART Grand Prix	4	1'42.533	20.863