Technical updates: 2025 Monaco Grand Prix

Circuit-specific upgrades are the order of the day as most Formula 1 teams made modifications to their cars for the Monaco Grand Prix weekend.

The unique characteristics of Monaco – with multiple tight corners and a lack of high-speed sections – leads teams to make changes to their cars specifically for the street track. McLaren has developed a wing that sits between its medium-downforce and high-downforce offerings, as well as two versions of a beam wing to complement that. There are also changes to the front suspension geometry to allow the required steering lock at the hairpin, and enlarged front brake ducts for cooling purposes.

It’s a similar story at Ferrari, where the front suspension has been changed, while its brake duct tweak is also for front wheel clearance based on the severe steering angle needed. Ferrari also has a circuit-specific higher downforce rear wing and beam wing option that it says is carried over from 2024.

Red Bull also has a higher downforce rear wing, as well as front suspension and front brake duct modifications for steering lock and cooling respectively, but Aston Martin takes a slightly different approach. Alongside a rear wing change, there’s a different front wing to balance the car aerodynamically, and increased cooling capacity on the rear brakes.

Alpine’s front suspension developments include revised trackrod fairing and supports to suit the Monaco layout, as well as a more loaded rear wing and beam wing combination, and the same approach has been taken by Haas, Racing Bulls and Williams across the same components – although Williams clarifies that the wing changes are the same parts as in 2024.

At Sauber, the only changes are to the front brake ducts and rear wing, with the team making clear the latter update efficiently increases load and can be used at future high-downforce venues, too.

Mercedes is the only team not to submit any new components for the Monaco weekend, although it could be running previously used items that are specific to high-downforce tracks.