Webber handed pole by Schumacher

Although Michael Schumacher was the fastest in the qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix, it was Red Bull’s Mark Webber that was handed the pole, as the Mercedes driver was penalized in five positions for crashing into Bruno Senna at Catalunya. Nico Rosberg will be alongside Webber on the front row.

During Q3 Schumacher was in fifth position but with a lap of 1m14.301s he took the lead at the end of the session. Still the German wasn’t able to claim that first position as the penalty he got from causing Senna’s crash in Barcelone will make him drop to sixth position. Mark Webber that was 0.08s slower than Schumacher will take his place in first place.

Although he held provisional pole position throughout the last stint of the session Nico Rosberg didn’t manage to hold to it and fell into third place, but in this case it meant he will start tomorrow’s race on the front row.

The second row of the grid for the Monaco Grand Prix will be occupied by Lewis Hamilton and Romain Grosjean. The French driver from Lotus almost seemed to be heading to his maiden pole position but a poor middle sector ended up taking away his chances.

The Ferrari drivers couldn’t do better than sixth and seventh during qualifying, so Alonso and Massa will be splitted by Schumacher in tomorrow’s race, in fifth and seventh respectively. Behind the Brazilian driver was the second Lotus driven by Raikkonen.

Once again Pastor Maldonado made it to Q3 and was the ninth fastest of the day, but he also suffered a penalty which will push him down 10 places after the incident with Sergio Perez in the final practice.

World reigning champion Sebastian Vettel was tenth opting, once again, not to run in Q3.

Sergio Perez continue his roll of bad luck in Monaco as the Mexican driver lost control of his C30 and hit the barriers in Swimming Pool. Perez still tried to bring his car to the pits. A mission that he didn’t complete, being forced to stop at Rascasse.