Over at Toyota-powered
Williams,
Nico Rosberg has qualified inside the top eight in both his
F1 appearances in Monaco to-date, though the young German has been out of luck in the races. The multiple championship-winning Grove-based concern has displayed up-and-down form in 2008, but should the team be on the money once more this weekend, you can be sure that Rosberg will make the most of it.
Further down the grid, the final spots are likely to be fought out between
Honda,
STR and
Force India. Both
Jenson Button and
Rubens Barrichello have reached the podium in Monaco before – the Briton achieving the runner-up spot in 2004 and his Brazilian team-mate doing the same in 1997, 2000 and 2001 and taking third position in 2004.
STR rookie Sébastien Bourdais will be returning to the Principality for the first time since he triumphed there back in his International F3000 days six years ago, whilst Force India will be hoping Giancaro Fisichella's habitual Monaco brilliance will be enough to drag them out of Q1 for the first time this season – or simply, in the absence of traditional tail-enders
Super Aguri now, away from the back row of the grid.
