Daniel Ricciardo will start the Monaco Grand Prix from pole position ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. Max Verstappen is set to start last.
Row 1 | 1. Daniel Ricciardo 1’10.810 Red Bull | |
2. Sebastian Vettel 1’11.039 Ferrari | ||
Row 2 | 3. Lewis Hamilton 1’11.232 Mercedes | |
4. Kimi Raikkonen 1’11.266 Ferrari | ||
Row 3 | 5. Valtteri Bottas 1’11.441 Mercedes | |
6. Esteban Ocon 1’12.061 Force India | ||
Row 4 | 7. Fernando Alonso 1’12.110 McLaren | |
8. Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’12.130 Renault | ||
Row 5 | 9. Sergio Perez 1’12.154 Force India | |
10. Pierre Gasly 1’12.221 Toro Rosso | ||
Row 6 | 11. Nico Hulkenberg 1’12.411 Renault | |
12. Stoffel Vandoorne 1’12.440 McLaren | ||
Row 7 | 13. Sergey Sirotkin 1’12.521 Williams | |
14. Charles Leclerc 1’12.714 Sauber | ||
Row 8 | 15. Brendon Hartley 1’13.179 Toro Rosso | |
16. Marcus Ericsson 1’13.265 Sauber | ||
Row 9 | 17. Lance Stroll 1’13.323 Williams | |
18. Romain Grosjean* 1’12.728 Haas | ||
Row 10 | 19. Kevin Magnussen 1’13.393 Haas | |
20. Max Verstappen** No time Red Bull |
*Three-place grid penalty for causing a collision in the Spanish Grand Prix
**Given permission from the stewards to start after failing to set a time in Q1. Five-place grid penalty for gearbox change.
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Jere (@jerejj)
26th May 2018, 15:05
Hopefully this time around the team won’t mess up Ricciardo’s pitstop.
Nick (@nick101)
26th May 2018, 15:06
Like a BOSS!
MXMXD (@mxmxd)
26th May 2018, 15:07
…Pretty sure Grosjean starts 18th due to the grid penalty incurred in Spain.
Alex De (@alexde)
26th May 2018, 15:41
Yep. Keith will likely correct it.
Michael Brown (@)
26th May 2018, 15:07
Can’t wait to see Ricciardo’s pole onboard
juan fanger (@juan-fanger)
26th May 2018, 15:25
As long as the front wheels are visible so that we can see them scraping the walls.
Hugh (@hugh11)
26th May 2018, 15:07
Nice place to start in 11th :) no need to run the hypers. Predicting people starting on the hypers will pit then get stuck behind the slow cars while Hulk just strolls about in clean air into 1st. Or something…
Todfod (@todfod)
26th May 2018, 17:11
Then again the ultras are significantly slower than the hypers, so you could see the top 10 build a large enough gap in the opening stint to not worry about losing positions to drivers who stop later.
Hugh (@hugh11)
26th May 2018, 19:19
Shh… I’m hoping they don’t last enough laps
Zad (@)
26th May 2018, 15:08
well deserved pole for ricciardo. crashtappen is showing why i think he’s the most overrated driver in f1
Blazzz
26th May 2018, 15:18
I concur, +1.
Garns (@)
26th May 2018, 16:17
+1 & -1
Great pole for Dan Ric and stoked for him.
I disagree Max is overrated, much to the contrary. You cant argue his brilliant talent he just needs to keep in in check, Senna done it, Schumi too, Seb & Lewis also………… but they all come good.
I know its his 4th year and he has done 60 odd races but he thought he was up for WDC this year and RBR hasn’t given him the car- Dan’s frustration is equal, maybe just more mature.
MG1982 (@mg1982)
27th May 2018, 5:35
Agree that he’s special and I don’t see why so many feel sorry about Kvyat being a RBR driver but, NO, the drivers you mentioned NEVER crashed even remotely close as much as VER! Do not think there’s another driver on the grid who crashed so much. There’re some other candidates, like Grosjean, but still behind VER. The only guy with equal proficiency is Maldonado.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
26th May 2018, 15:09
Grosjean, Kmag and Max starting next to each other. Nice 😆
Alex De (@alexde)
26th May 2018, 15:46
… and Vettel is seemingly relieved.
MXMXD (@mxmxd)
26th May 2018, 15:09
GRO, MAG and VER in the bottom-3.
Jay Menon (@jaymenon10)
26th May 2018, 15:23
I think every team should prepare their strategy for a safety car on lap 1.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
26th May 2018, 16:40
LOL… hence the Q2 on hypers
Blazzz
26th May 2018, 15:16
Wow. What a lap by RIC. Congrats to him. VERS starts last while RIC starts on pole. To think- Max fans were even suggesting that he is better than Vettel or Hamilton. LOL.
Good scrap for 2nd between Ham and VET, where was BOT today?
Smart money on RIC for the win.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
26th May 2018, 21:08
Where was Bottas? I don’t think he was that bad. He was about a tenth of a second behind Hamilton in P2 and P3. Was faster than Hamilton in Q2, then almost exactly the same distance behind Hamilton as Vettel was ahead of Hamilton. 0.209 behind Hamilton isn’t exactly bad pace from Bottas if Hamilton gets rated as high as he does. If Hamilton did well, I think we can still say Bottas did pretty well.
Pinak Ghosh (@pinakghosh)
26th May 2018, 15:29
Good job from LeClerc, Sirotkin, Ocon, Gasly.
Jorge Lardone (@jorge-lardone)
26th May 2018, 15:30
Ricciardo first, CrashMax last.
Another great work of CrashMax, the new Alonso of formula 1 (because he is so overrated).
Garns (@)
26th May 2018, 16:26
@jorge-lardone
Just asking how Alonso is overrated? His results are not what you expect of a 2 x WDC as he doesn’t have the best car. I agree he made bad decisions over the years but I would put him up against any on the grid now, even as an OLD 37 year old- or 36?? Ol’ boy still has it!
bogaaaa (@nosehair)
26th May 2018, 15:40
Lance Stroll a shocker !!!!! Enough said
Todfod (@todfod)
26th May 2018, 17:14
On a track where driver talent makes a big difference, I think Stroll’s performance justified his title of being pure rubbish.
Ju88sy (@)
26th May 2018, 15:42
Ocon to Perez covered by less than a tenth, that’s quite the midfield ruckus!
Darryn Smith (@darryn)
26th May 2018, 16:49
Pity Verstappen didn’t get pole. He would have caused some serious havoc up front taking out the top 3 or 4 and made for some interesting results.
Todfod (@todfod)
26th May 2018, 17:18
Got to hope Dan takes the win this time. It was pretty heart breaking for him last time around. Hamilton put in a stellar lap to split the Ferraris as well. I thought he was actually going to beat Vettel to P2, which would have been some feat considering that this is probably Mercedes’ weakest track.
Kind of disappointed with Alonso.. He should have taken that P6.
Robin Bollen
27th May 2018, 8:18
Well, not looking back, this mistake was party caused by the Renault, however it does not make a great track record for Max. He needs to learn that it is better to be 5 times 5th than to not finish, I agree that this is not the mindset of a racer, but smarts are more important than speed for his sponsors.
You could see in his body language that he starts to realise this, he was touching every one in the garage and the pit strait with his arm.
Hopefully this is the turning point for Max to finally grow up!