Raikkonen takes Monaco pole; Hamilton to start 13th

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen took pole position for the showcase Monaco Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday with world championship-leading German team-mate Sebastian Vettel alongside him on the front row.

The pole - set in 1min 12.178sec - was the Finnish 2007 world champion's first since the June 2008 French Grand Prix and the 17th of his career.

Britain's three-time champion Lewis Hamilton, six points behind Vettel in the standings after five races, suffered a major blow when he failed to muscle his Mercedes into the top 10 and qualified only 14th.

He will move up to 13th after Jenson Button's 15-place grid penalty for engine replacement is applied. Button, a stand-in for Fernando Alonso at McLaren while the Spaniard competes in Sunday's Indianapolis 500, qualified ninth.

Vettel (1:12.221), a four-time world champion, was just two-thousandths of a second faster than third-placed Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes.

Dutch teenager Max Verstappen took fourth place ahead of his Red Bull team-mate, Australian Daniel Ricciardo, Spaniard Carlos Sainz of Toro Rosso, Mexican Sergio Perez of Force India and Frenchman Romain Grosjean of Haas.