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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 519009" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/792/6513/" target="_blank">Official Qualifying Result</a> The sky was blue despite predictions of rain, and the front row is red despite Hamilton's revival in Thursday practice in Monte Carlo. Felipe Massa goes into the race on pole for the third time this season. Pole position usually equates to victory in the principality - the last time the pole sitter did not win the race was 2003 - so Kimi Raikkonen will be as sick as a parrot that his Brazilian teammate nabbed this vital advantage in the dying moments of qualifying. The McLarens are 3rd and 4th on the grid, with Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen (in that order) hoping that rain might appear across the skies on Sunday, and also that any hidden heavier fuel strategy on their part plays out to their advantage. Robert Kubica continues to sizzle in the BMW, qualifying just 6000th's of a second behind Kova in 5th. Fellow BMW driver Nick Heidfeld appears to be going through a rough patch down in 13th. Partnering Kubica on the 3rd row is Nico Rosberg, whose Williams colleague Kazuki Nakajima is coincidentally also one place behind Heidfeld. Alonso and Trulli are 7th and 8th. Taking the final top 10 places on the grid are Red Bull, but only Mark Webber had the opportunity to take part in Q3. David Coulthard's bad luck struck yet again when the Scot's car veered violently to the right on the exit from the famous tunnel, sending DC into the barrier and sliding off into a slip road while the right rear tyre went AWOL and made a desperate attempt to complete tha lap! Coulthard will certainly need major repairs and thus lose that 10th place on the grid.</blockquote>

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