Ross Brawn, Mercedes (Team Principal):
“It was a wonderful qualifying session and we are obviously delighted. Michael will take a five-place penalty tomorrow, but today he was the quickest guy out there - congratulations to him. Nico did a fantastic job as well, and was in the hunt for pole throughout the session. Having both drivers in the top three shows that the team has done a superb job this weekend to dial in the car and follow the evolution of the track. But it was a real team effort today and my thanks also to everyone back at the factories in Brackley and Brixworth. Now, we have one more step to make. Last year, we suffered big problems with the tyres at the beginning of the race. That is something we must avoid tomorrow.”

Norbert Haug, Mercedes (Daimler):
“What a phenomenal performance from Michael. He was the fastest man on track today when it counted and Michael truly deserves this P1 result. His five-place penalty puts him back on the third row while Nico will start from the front row tomorrow. Thank you to everybody in our team for a great effort today. Inside our team, our belief in Michael was never in danger and this has paid off big time.”

Christian Horner, Red Bull-Renault (Team Principal):
“A very interesting qualifying. Mark looked competitive in all three sessions and had a great last lap where he made up a lot of time in the last two sectors to take second place, which will become pole with Michael's penalty. It was a great performance by Mark and it's the best possible place to be starting the Monaco GP from. Sebastian appeared to struggle for pace through qualifying. He was never particularly happy with the car compared to this morning, which required him to run on options in Q1. He progressed through to Q3 on his second set of options, but based on what we could see pace-wise, we felt that it was better for us to have freedom of tyre choice to start the race tomorrow. So, he carries a new set of options into the race, plus primes, so hopefully that gives some good strategic options.”

Cyril Dumont, Red Bull-Renault (Renault Engineer):
“Fantastic! Like the last two years, a Red Bull will start from pole position at the Monaco GP. It's really good for Mark, he did a really solid lap, so congratulations to him. For Seb, it was a bit more difficult. He struggled to get a good lap in and so we decided to put him on the harder tyres for Q3, in order to have the option to start the race on either tyre tomorrow. It makes the start wide open and should be an interesting race.”

Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren-Mercedes (Team Principal):
“Our car is reasonably good on the few high-speed corners there are here at Monaco, and it's pretty decent in terms of traction too. Under braking, however, we're slightly struggling because it would appear that we aren't managing to get quite enough energy into the tyres. As a result of that, Jenson narrowly missed out on making it through to Q3. But it was an incredibly close qualifying session, as we've got used to seeing so far this season. Lewis, for example, lost a tenth or two at Sainte Dévote on his first run in Q3, but his second run was strong and solid for the most part – and, as a result, he'll start tomorrow's race from P3. Obviously, here at Monte-Carlo, where it's notoriously difficult to overtake, you'd always prefer to be starting from the front row of the grid rather than heading up the second row – but the Monaco Grand Prix is always a long and gruelling race, and there's no doubt that Lewis will be aiming to challenge the two cars ahead of him over the 78 laps. Moreover, tomorrow's weather conditions may well be changeable, we're told, which could make the shape of the race less predictable still. And, on this famously daunting street circuit, anything can happen, as we've seen so many times before.”

Stefano Domenicali, Ferrari (Team Principal):
“All in all, we can be pleased with the overall result of this qualifying, the first time this season that we have managed to get both our drivers through to Q3, I am particularly happy for Felipe who finally managed to show what he is capable of. As has more than ever been the case this year, all three parts that go to make up qualifying are very closely contested and it only takes the slightest thing to turn things on their head. Tomorrow's race will have everything going for it, from the first to the last lap. We know just how much the many imponderables in this race can effect the outcome and this time, there's the additional factor of tyre behaviour over a long run, given that no one was able to check on that during free practice. We must be ready to deal with any eventuality and react to every changing situation. Finally, I want to congratulate Michael Schumacher for his fantastic pole position: I think this result comes at the right time for him and on a track that has played a truly significant role in his career.”

Pat Fry, Ferrari (Technical Director):
“I don't think we could have done better in terms of performance. As I said yesterday, we have got closer to the quickest but not to the extent that we can fight for pole position. We still have work to do to close the gap. However, it's very positive to have finally managed to get both our drivers into Q3. Tomorrow, it will be very important to interpret the race strategy as well as possible because the number of variables in play is greater than usual, given that there is not enough data on tyre behaviour. I think we could witness quite a variety of strategies and we must do a good job of reacting to any eventuality: the Safety Car often plays a role at this track. On top of that, there is always a question mark as to the weather: at the moment it is not forecast to rain, but you never know what can happen here!”

Mark Gillan, Williams-Renault (Chief Operations Engineer):
“It has been a tough and busy day for the team with both cars not finishing qualifying as high as we would have liked. Pastor picked up heavy damage to his car in FP3 and the car crew did a fantastic job to do the repairs in time for the start of the first session of qualifying. Pastor also received a 10-place grid penalty due to an incident with Pérez. Despite the ninth (prior to penalty) and 14th qualifying positions for Pastor and Bruno respectively, our analysis shows that a top five qualifying position was achievable for us today.”

Vijay Mallya, Force India-Mercedes (Team Principal):
“It's well known that the qualifying hour in Monaco is the most important of the season, so we worked hard to make sure we had optimised the set-up for qualifying. Nico did an excellent job and only missed out on making Q3 by a tenth of a second. In fact, he was only half a second off the quickest time in Q2, which shows once again how closely-matched all the teams are. Paul didn't feel totally comfortable with his car, but I'm confident he can bounce back and have a strong race starting from P14. I always enjoy the Monaco Grand Prix and we've seen in the past that anything can happen here, so we will be targeting points finishes with both cars.”

Peter Sauber, Sauber-Ferrari (Team Principal):
“I am disappointed and I expected a much better result.”

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Sauber-Ferrari (Head of Track Engineering):
“The car is definitely quicker than we showed today. We are very disappointed and we don't know what happened to Sergio. We are looking right now to see if there was a problem with the car. Then with Kamui, it was not a very good lap in Q2. The field is so tight here and our grid positions make things a lot more difficult for tomorrow, but we are in Monaco where anything can happen and we don't have to give up.”

Laurent Mekies, Toro Rosso-Ferrari (Chief Engineer):
“Overall, this has been a difficult Saturday for us and our grid positions mean we will have a challenging afternoon tomorrow. However, as we know, the race here can often be unpredictable and we will have to fight very hard to make up some places relative to our main competitors ahead of us. As for Jean-Eric's qualifying accident, it is very difficult to blame our driver: this is his first time in Monaco in an F1 car and throughout free practice he made no mistakes. When a driver is pushing hard and trying to find the limit, sooner or later this sort of thing will happen. It's not a problem and everything will be fine with the car for tomorrow. He was unable to make his final run in Q2 because, even though he made it back to the garage, the right rear suspension was damaged. Starting where we are tomorrow with both cars, in what is usually an incident packed race, we will have to be inventive with our strategy and take any opportunity that comes our way.”

Mark Smith, Caterham-Renault (Technical Director):
“This has been a good weekend for us so far, and today's performance is another step in the right direction for us. Heikki put in another very good lap and had it not been for traffic he would probably have been into Q2. On Vitaly's car we had a KERS problem at the end of FP3 so we had to switch that off for qualifying and that clearly cost him some time. Despite that he drove very well and continues to reward the team with maximum effort every time he's in the car. Tomorrow is a chance for us to race the cars ahead for longer than we have been able to so far this season, so both drivers and the whole team are up for the challenge. The weather could play a major factor here and we are prepared for whatever it throws at us - hopefully we see an exciting race and we will aim to get both cars to the chequered flag to capitalise on whatever goes on up ahead.”

Tony Fernandes, Caterham-Renault (Team Principal):
“I am delighted to be back in Monaco and to see the whole team in such good spirits. We have increased the size of the QPR logo on the cars this weekend and I am very pleased to see that the same fighting spirit that helped the football club retain their Premier League status is alive and well in the Caterham garage. When the team sees both drivers giving everything they have got behind the wheel it makes the long hours and the hard work, here on track and back at the factory, all worth it. Despite the fact Heikki was held up by the Marussia we keep edging closer to the long-term goals. We have the right people in the factory and in the race team, the foundations have been laid for us to maintain the progress that has seen us close the gap to the midfield to the point where we are talking about Q2 in Monaco as a realistic proposition and we have the hunger to succeed. I do not want to make any predictions for the race tomorrow, but in our two previous seasons here we have performed extremely well, so that has to be the aim for race day. We have two drivers who know how to mix it in the midfield pack and the engineers and mechanics to use pitstop strategy to the best effect, so I would like to see us have a problem free race and who knows what might happen.”

John Booth, Marussia-Cosworth (Team Principal):
“Unfortunately we find ourselves having experienced mixed fortunes between the two cars in qualifying. The objective going into this race was to improve Timo's balance and continue to see Charles improving his form, but it seems that we've managed to achieve the former, but not helped Charles with the latter. For his car, we need to spend some time understanding the decisions we've made between FP2 and qualifying. As a team we need to get to the point where both drivers perform at their best in qualifying and this will be our goal going forward. For tomorrow they are still placed where we expected and I'm sure both drivers will make good progress and be ready to take advantage of any situations that arise in this typically eventful race.”

Toni Cuquerella, HRT-Cosworth (Technical Director):
“The minor upgrades which we've brought to Monaco have helped us to achieve the best qualifying result in the history of HRT Formula 1 Team by finishing Q1 103.6% off the best time. Besides, we also managed to finish much closer to our main rivals, which is very important. The red flag forced us to alter our strategy; with Pedro we decided to switch to two short runs, whilst with Narain we continued with our original plan and did one run. We got our timing right since we were on the track at the right time and you could consider Pedro's lap to be perfect. It's a shame that Narain was unable to set a similar time but tomorrow he should have a good pace in the race. It will be an open race and I'm sure that we will be competitive and will fight to gain positions.”

Paul Hembery, Pirelli (Motorsport Director):
“We saw a typical Monaco qualifying today, which was all about avoiding the inevitable incidents, finding a clear lap and getting the most out of the supersoft tyres. Congratulations to Michael Schumacher and Mercedes on a fantastic pole position: his first with Pirelli. With the teams having only had the chance to complete some qualifying simulations on the supersoft tyre in free practice this morning, they had very little data to go on before qualifying, but they adapted themselves very quickly to the conditions: especially Mercedes, which has been consistently quick from the start of the weekend. Tyre wear levels are low, as we expected, so we would envisage most drivers using a two-stop strategy tomorrow with some maybe trying for a one stop. However, the teams that feel confident of having a quick car could opt for a multi-stop sprint strategy. In either case, all the drivers will be able to push at their hardest from beginning to end so it should be a thrilling race.”