MONACO GP – QUALIFYING RESULTS

Sebastian Vettel will start the Monaco Grand Prix from third on the grid, while in the other SF15-T, Kimi Raikkonen lines up sixth. Qualifying was run here in Monaco under cloudy skies with a high of 18 degrees and Lewis Hamilton waited until the very last moment to take pole in the Mercedes with a time of 1.15.098. Vettel secured his spot on the second row with a 1.15.849, with Nico Rosberg second in the other Mercedes in 1.15.440. Raikkonen set the sixth fastest time of 1.16.427 and will start from Row 3.[ferrari.com]

Final Times:

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m15.098s	–
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m15.440s	0.342s
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m15.849s	0.751s
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m16.041s	0.943s
5	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m16.182s	1.084s
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m16.427s	1.329s
7	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m16.808s	1.710s
8	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m16.931s	1.833s
9	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m16.946s	1.848s
10	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m16.957s	1.859s
11	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m17.093s	–
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m17.193s	–
13	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m17.278s	–
14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m26.632s	–
15	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m18.101s	–
16	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m17.007s	–
17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m18.434s	–
18	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m18.513s	–
19	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m20.655s	–
20	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m20.904s	–

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QUOTES

From autosport.com – Kimi: “It was a bad result in the end as it’s difficult to overtake here. It’s not a very happy day. It’s going to be a long race if I’m stuck behind some cars, but I’ll try to get the maximum out of it. We had no grip on the first set [for the first run]. The second run felt normal but I had traffic. It was a disaster. The car felt OK but it was difficult to get heat in the tyres. We seem to manage to get it wrong every race. We have to work on something to try and improve it. We don’t put ourselves in very good position for Sunday. It makes our races difficult when you start behind because you spend time trying to get past cars and then you drop out the fight in front.”

From ferrari.com – Kimi: “I don’t think that the accident of this morning affected my qualifying. My car has been working pretty well so far, apart from the fact that it was hard to get the tires working . You need few good laps to make a time and today in my last run I was too slow behind a Toro Rosso and decided to come in. Today we had the speed but not the chance of doing a clean lap. It was not a very good day and obviously tomorrow we are going to pay a big price. Tomorrow we’ll see what we can do, we’ll try to make a good start and go from there, even if it won’t be easy. Here there is a big chance to remain stuck behind other cars for the whole race and overtaking is really difficult: that’s why the result of today is very disappointing.”

From espn.co.uk – Kimi: “It’s obviously a very bad result in the end and obviously it’s difficult to overtake here, so it’s not a very happy day. But it is what it is right now and we try to make a good start and go from there tomorrow, but obviously it is going to be a long race if we are stuck behind some cars. We will try to make the maximum out of it whatever happens tomorrow. We seem to manage to get it wrong every race, so we need to work on something to try to improve it. We don’t put ourselves in very good positions for Sundays and obviously it makes our races difficult. Obviously when you are stuck behind you spend time trying to get past cars and then you miss out on the fight at the front. But it’s part of the game.”

Raikkonen said the tyres were working better on his second attempt but when he came up behind a Toro Rosso he knew any chance of a good result was effectively over.

“It makes no difference right now, does it? I mean, I had a pretty okay first lap and I had one more lap and then there was a Toro Rosso so I had traffic on the second lap. I came in because I was too slow already and obviously it was pretty disastrous. The car felt okay but it was hard to get heat in the tyres. The end result is what it is and we will try to do a good race tomorrow. [It was sliding] more on the front, but obviously on the rear it was a bit hard to push because the front does not grip well. Obviously then you don’t go as fast as the tyres really need and you it’s a circle. It’s crucial to get clean outlaps to get the tyres working as well as possible, but it didn’t happen today and we paid the price.”

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