Hamilton left ruing Mc Laren's errors as Red Bull's Webber wins Monaco GP 2012

Monaco, May 28 (ANI): Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton was left disappointed with Mc Laren's repeated mistakes, as Red Bull Racing star Mark Webber won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday.

Webber drove a flawless race from pole to claim Formula One's most prestigious crown for a second time, but more mistakes from the McLaren team cost Hamilton valuable points in his quest for a second drivers' title.

Hamilton, 27, having started from third, could only to finish fifth, which put him in fourth position in the drivers' championship, 13 points behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, and is still awaiting his first victory of 2012 despite taking three poles.

"I feel like I'm in the best place I've ever been. I'm not making mistakes and it feels great. But we haven't had a grand prix weekend where something hasn't gone wrong," The Telegraph quoted Hamilton, as saying.

Hamilton revealed that he had studied previous Monaco races and noticed that the person starting third often picked off the person in second by turn one.

"My plan was to jump [Nico] Rosberg and challenge [Webber] for the lead," he said.

Instead, a change to his clutch settings on the formation lap got him to lose the torque.

"I took the team's advice, I have to rely on them, and let the clutch out and it just didn't go. There was no torque, no drive. I said to them afterwards 'we can't have everyone else making great starts and us not'. I was lucky not to lose third," he admitted.

It is seen as incredibly stiff fight at the top of the ranking table, with a different driver having won each of the opening six races of Grand Prix, for the first time in the history of F1. (ANI)