Daniel Ricciardo will start the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix from pole position after a frantic qualifying session, securing his first Formula 1 career pole and Red Bull's first since the 2013 Brazilian GP.
Ricciardo was the first man to dip below the 1 minute 14 second barrier as he posted a scintillating 1m13.622, out-qualifying the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg by more than a tenth.
Lewis Hamilton will start third on the grid after a difficult session for the Britain. Hamilton had looked quickest for much of the session, topping Q2, but hit trouble in the top-ten shoot-out as engine troubles struck again as he left his garage.
His crew managed to push him back and get him back out, but with more than half the session missed, he was on the back foot, managing just third on his sole timed attempt.
Sebastian Vettel and Nico Hulkenberg rounded off the top five, with the latter almost a second down on Ricciardo’s pole time – which was just a tenth shy of the ultimate lap record.
Meanwhile Ricciardo’s Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen will start 21st ahead of last-placed Felipe Nasr after crashing out in Q1. The Spanish GP winner brushed the wall at the Swimming Pool, which damaged his suspension and sent him into the barrier at high-speed.
That was one of two red flags during the opening session, the second caused by Nasr after the Sauber driver’s engine failed in a plume of white smoke.
Kimi Raikkonen couldn’t match his team-mate’s time, ending up two-tenths adrift of Vettel in sixth, but will start five-places lower with a gearbox penalty.
Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz out-qualified Daniil Kyat in seventh and ninth respectively, split by the second Force India of Sergio Perez, with McLaren’s Fernando Alonso completing the top-ten.
Kevin Magnussen's P16 is under threat after he was caught exiting the pitlane under the red light, with the stewards set to investigate the incident this afternoon.
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