Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri saw off Max Verstappen in a close battle for pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.
Qualifying ran to a significantly delayed schedule after two big Q1 crashes - Yuki Tsunoda's huge Variante Villeneuve shunt and Franco Colapinto going off at Variante Tamburello.
Colapinto was then also on the receiving end of a one-place penalty for a pitbox exit miscommunication - putting him behind Sauber's Gabriel Bortoleto.
As per the stewards, the Alpine debutant was instructed by the team to "creep out" of the pitbox during Q1 without being "fully released" - but misunderstood the instruction and entered the fast lane.
As there was no restart time at that point, it constituted a breach of the race director notes, and thus led to the penalty.
Provisional starting grid
1 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)
2 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
3 George Russell (Mercedes)
4 Lando Norris (McLaren)
5 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)
6 Carlos Sainz (Williams)
7 Alex Albon (Williams)
8 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)
9 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)
10 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
11 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
12 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)
13 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)
14 Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)
15 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)
16 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)
17 Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)
18 Esteban Ocon (Haas)
19 Ollie Bearman (Haas)
20 Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)
