Vettel admits Ferrari knew Red Bull would be quick in Monaco

Sebastian Vettel will start alongside Daniel Ricciardo on the front row for tomorrow’s Monaco Grand Prix, and perhaps it would’ve been worse for him had Max Verstappen not crashed out in FP3.

The German driver is looking for his third win of the season and to close the gap on championship leader Lewis Hamilton.

The Monaco Grand Prix circuit is notorious for being difficult to overtake on, so a lot will ride on whether Vettel can pass his former team mate on the run into turn one tomorrow afternoon.

However, Vettel had to admit that Ricciardo and Red Bull were just too good today.

“Well done to Daniel, he owned the qualifying session,” he said. “It was expected that Red Bull would be quick here.”

Max Verstappen will begin tomorrow’s race from the back of the grid, to the delight of his rivals, as Verstappen would have surely been competitive in this session.

“They have a strong car, they have more downforce than everybody else. At this track we knew they would be strong.

“For today no doubt that (Ricciardo) was the best man on the day, he deserves pole no matter whether his package was maybe a little better. That’s what it’s about.”