Top 10 tweets from Monaco Grand Prix qualifying

With limited overtaking opportunities, qualifying is more important in Monaco than at any other circuit on the calendar. Yesterday, we saw the two-horse race for pole position turn controversial after Nico Rosberg inadvertently overshot the Mirabeau corner, causing yellow flags to be unfurled which ruined Hamilton's lap. The saga continued hours after the race with Rosberg eventually cleared of any wrong doing, and rightly so.

The Red Bulls and Ferraris weren't far behind in terms of pace with the street circuit cutting down Mercedes' power advantage. The intra-team battle at both the outfits continued to make noise with Ricciardo and Alonso having the edge in their respective camps. Both the Toro Rossos did a formidable job to progress to Q3 while Kevin Magnussen and Sergio Perez out-qualified their highly rated teammates.

Here are the top 10 tweets during the qualifying session:

1. Because someone had to fill in for Maldonado this weekend ;)

Massa was letting Ericsson through at Mirabeau but the Caterham hit him. #F1 pic.twitter.com/aMfV5EMxZX

— F1 Fanatic Live (@f1fanaticlive) May 24, 2014

2. Uh oh.

Seems Hamilton’s comments to me have raised heat. He told @bbc5live “He’ll take a page out of Senna’s book” to deal with situation #F1

— Jennie Gow (@JennieGow) May 24, 2014

3. Forget selfies, let’s focus on videobombing ;)

Cheeky @NicoHulkenberg! #F1 pic.twitter.com/CVxMiBlgoC

— rookief1 (@rookief1) May 24, 2014

4. If only...

#F1 Lewis Hamilton if he was 100m further back, he wouldn't have hit the yellow flags and was on a personal best time

— Formula 1 News (@Formula1_com) May 24, 2014

5. That certainly wasn't deliberate.

Nico Rosberg: no further action from stewards. Full story soon

— Jon Noble (@NobleF1) May 24, 2014

6. No pun intended.

Pastor Maldonado has made it into Q2 for the first time this year. #F1

— F1 Fanatic (@f1fanatic_co_uk) May 24, 2014

7. Reminds us of that Webber meme.

Vettel: "You need to sort this problem out, you need to sort this problem out." - reported that he had no KERS earlier #F1onNBC

— F1® Racing on NBC (@F1onNBCSports) May 24, 2014

8. Give that guy a cookie ;)

Fernando Alonso was just "too busy" to meet Justin Bieber ahead of qualifying http://t.co/KRVydaySO0 #F1 #LOL

— F1 Pulse (@f1pulse) May 24, 2014

9. Both cars eliminated in Q1. None of them went airborne at first corner.

Difficult Qualifying for the Sauber F1 Team. More information: http://t.co/9hQNon5i4h pic.twitter.com/cYK5A5GxXv

— Sauber F1 Team (@OfficialSF1Team) May 24, 2014

10. Great showing by the Toro Rosso pair!

Whatever happens in Q3, Daniil Kvyatt's top ten performance on his Monaco debut is impressive. Toro Rosso team-mate Vergne doing well too.

— Steve Slater (@steveslaterF1) May 24, 2014

By Rachit Thukral