Reigning world champion, Fernando Alonso has won the Monaco Grand Prix, leading from start to finish at the principality, the seventh round in the 2006 FIA Formula One World Championship.

It was race drivers who made up most of the top places in the first practice session for the Monaco Grand Prix, with Renault's Fernando Alonso clocking the fastest time of 1:16.712. Honda third driver Anthony Davidson was second, a tenth and a half down, and Alonso's teammate Giancarlo Fisichella was third. Michael Schumacher's Ferrari and Juan Pablo Montoya's McLaren were fourth and fifth.

Rubens Barrichello believes that the qualifying system for the Monaco Grand Prix should have been altered to take into account the damaging effect traffic is set to cause around the tight confines of the street circuit.

While its current form would suggest that it will continue to play third fiddle behind Renault and Ferrari in Monaco this weekend, McLaren looks set to sparkle in other ways after rekindling its relationship with diamond giant Steinmetz.

Jenson Button has poured cold water on hopes that he could finally become a Formula One winner in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.

World champion Fernando Alonso has admitted that he would dearly love to win the Monaco Grand Prix.

The balance of power in the world championship is delicately poised as Formula 1 gears up for its annual encounter with the jet set at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Conceived by Antony Noghes, and always held on the weekend following Ascension Day, the Monaco Grand Prix is the most famous race on the Grand Prix calendar.