Hamilton points the finger at Webber

[Wizzo]

Lewis Hamilton has blamed Australian Mark Webber for preventing him from taking his maiden pole position, at the Monaco Grand Prix, held overnight.

The 22-year-old McLaren rookie was to start from second place after double world champion teammate Fernando Alonso pipped him by 0.179 seconds at the end of the final qualifying session for the season's most glamorous race, with Ferrari's Felippe Massa third. Massa's teammate Kimi Raikkonen was to start from 16th — a big setback at a circuit notorious for its lack of overtaking possibilities — after striking a chicane and breaking his steering.

Webber qualified a respectable sixth in his Red Bull, his highest start of the year.

"I was three-and-a-half tenths up by turn four and then I caught Mark Webber," Hamilton told a news conference. "I lost half a second behind him but still managed to do exactly the same time (as his previous best).

"I don't know whether he didn't see me or what. In the drivers' briefing he was saying that they need to be hard on us for holding people up and then he came out and held me up."

Webber was upbeat about his car's performance, saying he was confident Red Bull would be one of F1's most respected teams by the end of the year.

"We were on the back foot at the start of the year, but we're now slowly putting pressure on the front foot in terms of getting over the first part of the season," Webber said.

[romephius]

Aussie Pride here, but typical petulant words for a juniour.......Hamilton should bite his tounge.....

Rom