Daniel Ricciardo will start on pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix, his first in Formula One, ahead of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.
Ricciardo has been looking at one with the car all weekend and put together a fantastic lap to take pole position in Monaco.
The Australian will start on the red-marked supersoft tyres in Sunday’s race, if the start is dry, however, rain is forecasted.
Formula One championship leader Rosberg will start second ahead of Hamilton – who suffered an engine issue at the start of Q3.
Sebastian Vettel will be disappointed with fourth ahead of Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg.
Kimi Raikkonen is sixth, but will be demoted by five places due to a gearbox penalty.
Carlos Sainz, Sergio Perez, Daniil Kvyat and Fernando Alonso rounded out the top 10 positions.
The first red flag of the day was brought out after Felipe Nasr’s Sauber suffered an engine failure, forcing the Brazilian to stop out on the circuit.
Vettel led the way on a 1m14.610, two-tenths clear of Hamilton and Rosberg. After going out on the supersofts at the start of the session, both Force India’s improved late on to go fifth and sixth respectively.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen caused the second red flag of Q1, crashing on the entry to the swimming pool corner meaning he will start last in tomorrow’s race.
Marcus Ericsson, Jolyon Palmer, Rio Haryanto, Pascal Wehrlein joined Verstappen and Nasr on failing to make it into Q2.
The second part of qualifying was not interrupted by red flags as the battle for the top 10 shootout intensified.
Williams opted to send their drivers out after everyone else completed their initial runs on the ultrasoft tyres, both Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas could not make it into Q3, ending 14th and 11th.
Ricciardo completed his fastest lap in Q2 on the supersoft tyres meaning if the start of tomorrow’s race is dry, the Australian will start on the supersofts whilst everyone else in the top 10 will start on the ultrasoft.
Esteban Gutierrez, Jenson Button, Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen also failed to progress into Q3.
With Sunday’s race set to be wet, we could be in for another classic Monaco Grand Prix.
