Mark Webber after Monaco Qualifying (Photo: AFP/Pascal Guyout)

Mark Webber gave RedBull their 6th consecutive pole this season in arguably the most important race of the season. Mark was a bit behind the eight ball in Q1 and Q2, doing enough to stay ahead but it was Q3 where he came alive. After Robert Kubica put in a few astonishing laps taking provisional pole several times in a row it looked like Robert was set to give Renault their first pole of the season, however Mark out of no where smashed Roberts time by more then three tenths of a second. Mark was the only driver to break into the 1:13′s.

Vettel had a good late charge to take P3 ahead of Massa. The top3 finishers in qualifying were all on Renault engines. Sebastian Vettel made a remarks in post race press conference referring to critics of the renault engine this year who may now be atleast for this race be eating humble pie.

Fernando Alonso had a unfortunate crash in the final practice, damaging his car so badly that Ferrari will have to give him the spare car to drive in tomorrows race. Fernando will start from the pit lane but is still hopeful of a points finish.

The big disapointment of the day was Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button who finished 5th and 8th respectively. They are split by the Mercedes’ of Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher. Nico has made up for the lack of pace he had over Michael in Spain and has been consistently quicker then his team mate over the weekend. Nico in the end just out-qualified Michael by less then 0.04 of a second.

Mark was trying to hide his enthusiasm as much as possible. He noted that it was a long hard race in Monaco and that they will have to navigate their way around many backmarkers on the tight Monaco streets. Mark said that he would use his experience to keep the car out of trouble tomorrow.

Full Qualifying results are below:

Pos. # Driver Car Q1 Q2 Q3
1 6 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:15.035 1:14.462 1:13.826
2 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:15.045 1:14.549 1:14.120
3 5 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:15.110 1:14.568 1:14.227
4 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:14.757 1:14.405 1:14.283
5 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.676 1:14.527 1:14.432
6 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:15.188 1:14.375 1:14.544
7 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:15.649 1:14.691 1:14.590
8 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.623 1?15.150 1:14.637
9 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:15.590 1:15.083 1:14.901
10 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:15.397 1:15.061 1:15.170
11 10 Nico Hülkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:16.030 1:15.317
12 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:15.445 1:15.318
13 16 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:15.961 1:15.413
14 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:15.482 1:15.576
15 22 Pedro de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:15.908 1:15.692
16 23 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:16.175 1:15.992
17 17 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:16.021 1:16.176
18 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:17.094
19 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:17.134
20 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:17.377
21 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:17.864
22 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:18.509
23 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:19.559
24 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari