Sebastian Vettel will start the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix from the second position on the grid, behind his Scuderia Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. The German driver held onto a front-row grid slot by 0.002 seconds as Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas asserted some late pressure, but the German will take a lot of comfort from the fact that title rival Lewis Hamilton will be forced to start from P13 after a disastrous qualifying session.
However, Sebastian Vettel has said he his happy with the set-up of his car and that the mistake was on him: “I think the car was fine, really nice to drive but I probably pushed a bit too hard in Q3, went wide in Turn 5. The second attempt went a bit deep so the second sector I was probably a bit too greedy. I wanted a bit too much and lost a little bit.” – the four-time Formula One world champion explained, as reported by the online version of Italian newspaper Tuttosport at the end of the qualifying session on the Circuit de Monaco.
Sebastian Vettel also added that it would be wrong to think that the race is already done given the fact that overtaking is very difficult around the tight streets in Monaco: “We have done enough races so we know what to do at the first corner. We are here to race. The start here is important, the first corner is important, every race is important. The start is the beginning of the race, not the end. We know that pole is important at Monaco so we know what happens.” – Sebastian Vettel concluded, ahead of the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, which is scheduled to take place on Sunday.
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