Daniel Ricciardo led an ominous opening-day charge from Red Bull as championship front-runners Mercedes and Ferrari were left trailing at the end of Thursday practice at the Monaco GP. Ricciardo and team-mate Max Verstappen, who was nearly two tenths behind his team-mate on the timesheet, were by far the quickest drivers over a single lap in Practice Two with the first non-Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari, a distant 0.572 seconds adrift. There was little to choose between Ferrari and Mercedes, with championship leader Lewis Hamilton just a tenth further behind Vettel in fourth, but Red Bull appeared to confirm expectations that they could be the team to beat on F1's slowest and...
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