Drivers: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes), Lewis🎉 Hamilton (Mercedes) an🀅d Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull Racing)

TV unilateral.

Q:
Nico, congratulations - pole for the second ♓year in a row but perhaps not exactly the way you wanted to achieve it with that mis🐼take at the end?

Nico Rosberg:
No, definitely not. I thought it was over once that happened, because I thought the track would ramp up and somebody else could beat the time but no, of course, in the end I'm really, really happy that it worked out in the end. To be on pole is fantastic, at home; couldn🌃't be better.

Q:
Coming to y🎃ou Lewis. Nico's mistake, ironically, and the subsequent yellow flags meant that you couldn't improve on your lap. Your feelings?

Lewis Hamilton:
Yeah, it is ironic. But it's OK. I was up a couple tenths so it's▨ OK.

Q:
Daniel, coming to you, your best Monaco qualifying performance. Your chances for the race, your thoughts on the two gentlemen [beside you] who again ൩seemed to find a bit more speed when it mattered today?

Daniel Ricciardo:
Yeah, I think all three of us don't seem to be too pleased🍷 with ourselves. I think we left a bit on the table. We fought the car pretty hard in qualifying and trying to find a bit more from it. I thought I was getting around it OK but coming up to Turn 8 I just lost the rear completely on exit and pretty much the lap was gone after that. Frustrated, I think we could have been much closer. So a little bit disappointed.

Q:
Nico, your thoughts on what happened with Lewis and where your mistake left him. You're close frie﷽nds, you're fighting for race wins, your fighting for pole, for world championships but there's no question that your mistake disadvantaged him.

Nico Rosberg:
No, definitely, of course I'm sorry for Lewis. I didn't know exactly where he was b🧜ut once I was reversing I did see he was coming up. Of course that's not great, but that's the way it is.

Q:
Lewis, your response to that? When you're last on the track there's always that risk isn't there, ꧂you're vulnerable to something like this happening?

Lewis Hamilton:
I don't have an answer to it.

Q:
OK. Final thought ꦺthen from you Nico. Yo🔥u won here from pole last year, your thoughts on what will definitely be a tough 78-lap grand prix tomorrow.

Nico Rosberg:
Yeah, well, very, very happy to start from first. It's going to be a long race tomorrow. Also there's supposed to be som🍃e weather coming in, so we're not sure if it's going to stay dry or not. Of course, [I'm in] the best place to start from and just need to try to get a good start. That's been our weakness recently but we've worked on it a lot. So I'm quite confident that we've got the starts sorted now, so that should be OK. And then, from then on try to take care of the tyres - tyres will be very important as always in the Monaco Grand Prix, take care of those and everything should be OK.

Press conference.

Q:
So Nico, obvio﷽usly there's only one real major talking point, tell us in d🍰etail what happened on the way down to Mirabeau?

Nico Rosberg:
I just locked up, the outside front, ღI think it was, or the inside, I'm not sure, and that put me off line. I was𒊎 still trying to make it but in the last moment I had to turn out because I was going to hit the tyre wall. It was close but I managed to go into the escape road.

Q:
And what was going through your mind on that last lap? You, of course, had the a🐬dvantage, having set the faster time first, so you knew you💫 were knew you were up and you knew...

Nico Rosberg:
Well that's the whole reason why I'm... I know that I have a banker, a really good banker♏ in there so I just try to push that little bit more and went over the edge.

Q:
Lewis, give us your thoughts when you were told over the radio, or you saw the yellow flags and knew that it was all🔥 over.

Lewis Hamilton:
Not really much.

Q:
Can you elaborate?

Lewis Hamilton:
Not really m♑uch! I didn't really think of anything. The lap was done and that 🅺was that.

Q:
You said you were a cou🐽ple of tenths up th🅷ough, so you must have thought you were on target?

Lewis Hamilton:
I was on target, yep.

Q:
And your thoughts on where you go from here. Will you be wanting to meet with the team this 🎉evening. Anything unusual before the preparation for this ra♎ce?

Lewis Hamilton:
I don't k🌼now, I'll have a look into the data and, y'know, look where I can improve tomorrow.

Q:
Daniel, your thoughts. First time you've driven Monac𝄹o in a competitive F1 car. Tell us about that step-up in performance, being that close to the front and having a real chance tomorrow.

Daniel Ricciardo:
It was definitely nice to... yeah, again, fight at the front on the field and around here it's a lot of fun, definitely. It's always nice when you've got a quick car but aꦑround here it does feel awesome. The last lap there, went for one last push and just didn't really get the grip back that I was hoping for and just couldn't improve on the lap I'd done in the first part of Q3. So, it was a shame 🧸because I think in the first part of Q3 we still had a little bit more in there and, yeah, a bit frustrated to be honest.

Questions from the floor.

Q: (Haoran Zhou - Formula One Express).
Lewis, how pleased are you with yo🔯u🐠r first lap in Q3 and did you leave some time on the table; if there is, where exactly?

Lewis Hamilton:
Generally the lap wasn't too bad. Nico's been quick all weekend. And just working away at it, one s🔯tep at a time. I remember starting the last lap and said 'this is it, this is going to be the lap'. Was two and a half tenths up and didn't get to f✃inish it.

Q: (Leonid Novozhilov - F1Live).
Daniel Ricciardo, what you can say about the Red Bull team's chance🍃s in this chꦅampionship?

Daniel Ricciardo:
The championship is - I think - a long, long way away. Again, Mercedes have got a froꦜnt row lock-out, I think we were definitely closer today. I felt we had a bit more of a chance there but yeah, I think the championship💯's still a long way away. Firstly I think we need to win a race and then think about a championship.