Sebastian Vettel came away with second place in the qualifying for the Monaco Grand prix, while his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen narrowly missed third place by a mere three-hundredths of a second.
“I’ve been quite happy today”, Vettel commented, “even if you always have the feeling you could do much more. However, we tried to get everything out of our car and we got a good position. Red Bull has been strong since Thursday, but we got as close as we could. The main thing for us is that our car has potential.”
“In the first corner I just couldn’t drive the way I wanted but for the rest it was ok. It was a tricky session also in terms of getting the tires together. Now we’ll focus on the start tomorrow, but it will be a long race. It will be a different game to play tomorrow, compared to today. On Sunday, it could be more tactical, and we need to consider that a short period of the race could decide the result of the race itself. Also, we need a bit of luck, but the most important thing is to be ready to react. We know what we have to do, so we’ll see how the race turns out.”
We got as close as we could, Vettel says for 2nd on the Monaco grid
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Raikkonen had some problems with the tyres/
“Today we struggled a bit to make the tires work straightaway in the first two corners, get them into the correct temperature window and get the car to turn where we wanted. During the lap, they seemed to improve, but here at Monaco, if you are not 100 percent sure of how it’s going to be in Turn 1, then you lack a bit of confidence. Obviously, we cannot be totally happy with this result, we wanted to be higher up the timesheet, but this what we have got today. The race is a different story. Usually, it’s very tricky to overtake here, but in the past, a lot of things happened. We’ll try to stay out of any trouble, make the right decisions and do the right things at the right moment.”
