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The qualifying session went down to the wire and in the end Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel came away with second place while team-mate Kimi Raikkonen narrowly missed third place by a mere three hundredths of a second.

There is at least one thing that will never be missing from Monaco qualifying, and that’s action and for Ferrari it was a mixed bag during the session to decide the grid for this afternoon's grand prix.

Yesterday's qualifying session went right down to the wire and in the end Scuderia Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel came away with second place, while his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen narrowly missed third place by a mere three hundredths of a second.

No one could live with Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo around the streets of Monaco but crucially Vettel has positioned himself on the grid ahead of his arch title rival Lewis Hamilton after bumping the Mercedes driver off the front row in the final minutes of the Q3 final qualifying session.

“I’ve been quite happy, even if you always have the feeling you could do much more," Vettel said afterwards. "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," he continued. "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, but it will be a long race.

"[The race] 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”.

“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 per cent 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 time sheet, but this what we have got.

"The race is a different story," Vettel concluded. "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”.

Photos: Scuderia Ferrari - 2018 FIA F1 World Championship

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