» 2013 Monaco Grand Prix: Starting Grid

Nico Rosberg will start from pole position for the fourth time in his Formula 1 career at today’s Monaco Grand Prix, which will also mark the third time on the trot that the German starts from top spot on the grid.

Today’s starting grid will look like this:

			1.	Nico Rosberg	1:13.876
2.	Lewis Hamilton	+ 0.091		Mercedes AMG Petronas
	Mercedes AMG Petronas

			3.	Sebastian Vettel	+ 0.104
4.	Mark Webber	+ 0.305		Red Bull Racing Renault
	Red Bull Racing Renault

			5.	Kimi Räikkönen	+ 0.946
6.	Fernando Alonso	+ 0.948		Lotus Renault
	Scuderia Ferrari

			7.	Sergio Pérez	+ 1.262
8.	Adrian Sutil	+ 1.507		McLaren Mercedes
	Force India Mercedes

			9.	Jenson Button	+ 1.771
10.	Jean-Éric Vergne	+ 1.827		McLaren Mercedes
	Toro Rosso Ferrari

			11.	Nico Hülkenberg	1:18.331
13.	Daniel Ricciardo	1:18.344		Sauber Ferrari
	Toro Rosso Ferrari

			13.	Romain Grosjean	1:18.603
14.	Valtteri Bottas	1:19.077		Lotus Renault
	Williams Renault

			15.	Giedo van der Garde	1:19.408
16.	Pastor Maldonado	1:21.688		Caterham Renault
	Williams Renault

			17.	Paul di Resta	1:26.332
18.	Charles Pic	1:26.633		Force India Mercedes
	Caterham Renault

			19.	Esteban Gutiérrez	1:26.917
20.	Jules Bianchi	no time		Sauber Ferrari
	Marussia Cosworth

			21.	Felipe Massa	no time
22.	Max Chilton	1:27.303		Scuderia Ferrari	PENALTY
	Marussia Cosworth	PENALTY

And for those looking for a bit of trivia ahead of today’s race, here are a few mind-blowing (or otherwise!) statistics to impress or bore your friends with:

While it might be Nico Rosberg’s third pole position in a row, he still falls well short of the all-time record of eight on the trot claimed by Ayrton Senna between the 1988 Spanish Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix the following year.
With Giedo van der Garde qualifying fifteenth, the Caterham team toasted its best qualifying performance since Heikki Kovalainen’s 13th-placed effort at the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix.
Ferrari has not won the Monaco Grand Prix since 2001, which also marks the fifth and final time that Michael Schumacher won the event
Today marks 45 years since Jules Bianchi’s great-uncle Lucien finished on the podium here at the 1968 Grand Prix, driving a Cooper BRM.
Victory Lewis Hamilton or Kimi Räikkönen will move them up the ranks on the all-time winners list. If Hamilton wins, he will move to equal-twelfth on the all-time list (tied with Damon Hill on 22 wins), while Räikkönen would become Finland’s most victorious F1 driver if he claims his 21st win, which would move him ahead of Mika Häkkinen.
Should Mark Webber claim victory, he will become the thirty-second driver in Formula 1 history to claim ten Grand Prix wins. It would also make him the seventh three-time winner of the event, behind Ayrton Senna (six wins), Michael Schumacher and Graham Hill (five apiece), Alain Prost (four), Sir Stirling Moss and Sir Jackie Stewart (three each).
It will also be Mark Webber’s 202nd Grand Prix start, which moves him to twelfth place on the all-time starters’ list ahead of Jean Alesi.