Saturday qualifying session saw Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet qualify in 9th and 12th places respectively for tomorrow's Monaco Grand Prix.

FREE PRACTICE 3

Fernando Alonso: 24 laps, P10, 1:15.165 on lap 21Run 1: 7 laps, new hard tyres Run 2: 7 laps, same set of hard tyres, change to weight distribution Run 3: 8 laps, new soft tyres

Nelson Piquet: 27 laps, P15, 1:16.382 on lap 25Run 1: 10 laps, new hard tyres Run 2: 8 laps, new hard tyres, change to front wing Run 3: 7 laps, new soft tyres

QUALIFYING

Fernando Alonso P9, 1:16.009Q1: 1 run on new hard tyres, 1 run on new soft tyres Q2: 2 runs on new soft tyres Q3: 1 run on used soft tyres, 2 runs on new soft tyres

Fernando:  "Overall I'm happy with my performance as I did the best I could today. At the end of the session I was caught in a line of traffic, but honestly our ninth place reflects where our car is at the moment because I was 12th in Q1 and 9th in Q2. It's clear that we still need to improve and find more speed."

Nelson Piquet, P12, 1:15.837 Q1: 2 runs on new soft tyres Q2: 2 runs on new soft tyres

Nelson: "I'm not totally happy because my ideal lap would have put me in the top ten. However, the car wasn't perfect and I didn't have the ideal brake balance which made it difficult to get the most from the car. However, if you had said to me before the weekend that we would have this result, I think I would have been relatively satisfied and starting 12th is not too bad. Now we need to concentrate on making the most of the strategy tomorrow."

Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering"A disappointing qualifying session for us. The car seemed well balanced this morning, but this afternoon it lacked that little bit of extra grip that we needed."

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