If MS did it by accident, for a driver of his caliber, that would have been THE most pathetic mistake a F1 champion can make, specially a 7 times champ. If you seen it on TV, there is no f..k way he would have miss that corner, strictly speaking. The speed was slow, the corner was wide, after he slowed down, there were still enough room for him to move forward. The car was not damaged, and he stalled the car. When was last time you saw MS stall his car? Even during his worse spin, he always kept his engine going. Today's F1 cars are so well designed that you have to try really hard to stall the engine, when you know what you're doing.
The TV commentator flat out said "That doesn't look right" the moment when that happened. He simply did it at the wrong place, wrong time, and wrong method, if he had damaged his car, all doubts would have been erased.
All I can think of is greed. MS have one more record he wants to match/beat. It is Senna’s 6 Monaco wins. His time is running out and he had to do something. Again, if he got away from that, what’s on the paper will live forever, not people’s comments. A generation later, which all they will read is… the stats, not how MS achieved it.
The problem in F1 today is, the competition level is too low. Even during Honda’s dominants in the 80’s, other teams were still capable of winning races. In term of his 1994 and 1996 incidents, it cannot be compared to what happen between Senna and Prost, Piquet and Mansell, etc. Race crash happens often, but it’s when the points matter to the championship, people will talk. I still remember Senna’s incident with Prost in 1989 and 1990, but both were racing for championship, both were fighting for the corner, who ever lose the corner looses the championship. Therefore, the qualifying incident was really a bad missed of judgment by MS. He was in the league of his own, and really no one else can challenge him other than Alonso. He wanted to bag the racing during qualify, not during the actual race, which made it very unsportsmanlike. Fight it out during the race, second place during qualifying can still salvage/win the race by good strategy. Considering the fact that MS’s car is very much on par with Alonso’s.
We all know what MS can do when the car is right, it’s that tight margin (car’s performance compare to Renault) caused him to commit that rule violation. In a way, if you can walk with a million dollar vs. nothing, which way would you choose? It’s really depend on how much you have to loose, and how far you are willing to go to get that million.
Alonso will do it this year I think. Finally got his hair cut. 
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