On the first mid of the session, Sebastian Vettel scored the fastest time of the day with soft tyres (1:15.261), just 20 thousand of a second ahead of Nico Rosberg, and three tenths ahead of Lewis Hamilton. The first 30 minutes of practice have not been very interesting in terms of extracting conclusions about the pace of best teams, because everybody has been testing different things and settings on the cars.
The second mid of the session was full of incidents. Felipe Massa had a very strange accident in turn one, hitting the left wall after blocking front tyre, and then going into the barrier of Ste Devote. It looked like a problem in the car, although Felipe Massa said that he just blocked his tyres. The session was red flagged for a few minutes and, when it was restarted, Adrian Sutil also had an accident, the german driver crashed into the wall of Massenet, after blocking rear tyres on the braking. After this, we have seen a lot of little mistakes for a lot of drivers, like Nico Rosberg, who almost hit the wall on his fastest lap. The only drivers who seem to have completed a full lap almost perfect with supersoft are Nico Rosberg and Romain Grosjean, who had an accident on St Devote again, when there were two minutes remaining for the end. This accident caused a red flag and the session was over, so the qualifying session is now unpredictable.
| P | Driver | Team | Time | Laps |
| 1 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:14.378 | 22 |
| 2 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | 1:15.039 | 13 |
| 3 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:15.261 | 17 |
| 4 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:15.286 | 17 |
| 5 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:15.311 | 20 |
| 6 | Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus | 1:15.380 | 19 |
| 7 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:15.550 | 20 |
| 8 | Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:15.594 | 17 |
| 9 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:15.861 | 15 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkneberg | Force India | 1:15.926 | 25 |
| 11 | Sergio Pérez | McLaren | 1:15.958 | 23 |
| 12 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:15.976 | 19 |
| 13 | Jean Eric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:15.976 | 21 |
| 14 | Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:16.060 | 16 |
| 15 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | 1:16.068 | 12 |
| 16 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:16.105 | 8 |
| 17 | Esteban Gutiérrez | Sauber | 1:16.427 | 26 |
| 18 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 1:16.933 | 17 |
| 19 | Charles Pic | Caterham | 1:17.902 | 20 |
| 20 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 1:18.102 | 20 |
| 21 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 1:18.706 | 22 |
| 22 | Max Chilton | Marussia | 1:19.228 | 22 |