Well, what a🥃 dramati﷽c and disrupted qualifying session we were treated to at Imola!
There's loads to look forward to tomorrow with a tasty front row and hugely exciting grid set f🤡or the Emilia Romagna Grand 𝄹Prix.
Join us tomorrow from 1pm BST as we build up to the ra♋ce, with lights out at 2pm BST.&𒆙nbsp;
| 2025 F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Qualifying Results | ||||||
| Pos | Driver | Nat. | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 |
| 1 | Oscar Piastri | AUS | McLaren F1 Team | 1m15.500s | 1m15.214s | 1m14.670s |
| 2 | Max Verstappen | NED | Oracle Red Bull Racing | 1m15.175s | 1m15.394s | 1m14.704s |
| 3 | George Russell | GBR | Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team | 1m15.852s | 1m15.334s | 1m14.807s |
| 4 | Lando Norris | GBR | McLaren F1 Team | 1m15.894s | 1m15.261s | 1m14.962s |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | ESP | Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team | 1m15.695s | 1m15.442s | 1m15.431s |
| 6 | Carlos Sainz | ESP | Atlassian Williams Racing | 1m15.987s | 1m15.198s | 1m15.431s |
| 7 | Alex Albon | THA | Atlassian Williams Racing | 1m16.123s | 1m15.521s | 1m15.473s |
| 8 | Lance Stroll | CAN | Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team | 1m15.817s | 1m15.497s | 1m15.581s |
| 9 | Isack Hadjar | FRA | Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team | 1m16.253s | 1m15.510s | 1m15.746s |
| 10 | Pierre Gasly | FRA | BWT Alpine F1 Team | 1m15.937s | 1m15.505s | 1m15.787s |
| 11 | Charles Leclerc | MON | Scuderia Ferrari HP | 1m16.108s | 1m15.604s | |
| 12 | Lewis Hamilton | GBR | Scuderia Ferrari HP | 1m16.163s | 1m15.765s | |
| 13 | Kimi Antonelli | ITA | Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team | 1m15.943s | 1m15.772s | |
| 14 | Gabriel Bortoleto | BRA | Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber | 1m16.340s | 1m16.260s | |
| 15 | Franco Colapinto | ARG | BWT Alpine F1 Team | 1m16.256s | No Time Set | |
| 16 | Liam Lawson | NZL | Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team | 1m16.379s | ||
| 17 | Nico Hulkenberg | GER | Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber | 1m16.518s | ||
| 18 | Esteban Ocon | FRA | MoneyGram Haas F1 Team | 1m16.613s | ||
| 19 | Oliver Bearman | GBR | MoneyGram Haas F1 Team | 1m16.918s | ||
| 20 | Yuki Tsunoda | JPN | Oracle Red Bull Racing | No Time Set | ||
Fernando Alonso is best of th♌e rest in fifth, ahead of the Williams pair of Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon.
The ot𓄧her Aston Martin of Lance Stroll was P8, ahead 🉐of Isack Hadjar and Pierre Gasly.
Wow, what a exhilarating൲ qua💫lifying session that was! It was worth the wait and delays.
Oscar Piastri improves with his final lap of Q3 to claim pole ♕position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix!
The McLaren driver secures pole after beatin🌃g Max Versta🌞ppen by just 0.034s!
George Russell pops his Me✤rcedes into third right at the end, leaving Lando Norris only fourth on the grid in his McLaren.
Max Verstappen has pulled a special lap out of th🅘e bag to tak🔴e provisional pole!
The Red Bull driver pips both McLarens, edgin🍸g out Oscar Piastri by just 0.049s with Lando Norris third.
Geo𝄹rge Russell slots his Mercedes into P4 with Isack Hadjar an impressive fifth for Racing🔜 Bulls.
Next come the Aston Martins of L🐈an♊ce Stroll and Fernando Alonso in sixth and seventh.
The two Williams areꦰ eighth and ninth, with Alpine's Pierre Gasly rounding out the top 10.
Final runs of Q3 will be coming up shortly...
The third and final part of qualifying is underway 🌳as the battle for pole position at Imola begins...
Absolute disaster for F𓂃errari as Charles 🐈Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton are both eliminated in Q2 as the two Aston Martins reach Q3 on medium tyres!
Leclerc is only P11 with Hamilton 12th. What a 𒁃nightmare on home soil for the Italian squad.
Also out is home hero ℱKimi Antonelli in 13th, with Gabriel Bortoleto 14th and Franco C𒀰olapinto - who didn't take part in Q2 after his huge Q1 shunt - P15.
It's a McLꦅaren 1-2 headed by Oscar Piastri after the opening runs of Q2.
Max Verstappen is third, ahead of George Russell and the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Ham🀅ilton.
Isac𒉰k Hadjar sits seventh, with Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz and Kimi Antonelli the drivers currently occupying the top 10.&nbs🌠p;
Seven m𒁏inutes left on the clock for improvements to be made.
Q2 - the second part of qualifying - has begun after heavy🧸 delays. Will this be a clean session after a heavily 𒊎disrupted and twice red-flagged Q1?
It appears as though the FIA have stuck with their original decision, wit༺h Gabriel Bortoleto taking part in this season and Oliver Bearman still in his garage.
15 minutes on the clock for this session.
The start of Q2 has been delayed๊ and the reason is because the lap time of Oliver Bearman is under review.
Bearman had set a lap to progress into Q2 but his time was deleted, seeing him drop into 19th and the elimination zone.&nbs🐓p;
It didn't look as though Bℱear♌man made it to the line before the red flag came out, and this is what the FIA are currently evaluating.
Bearman is still in his Haas and waiti♊ng to find out whether he is put through, or if his qualifying is over.
TV cameꦍr☂as just captured Jack Doohan - who lost his Alpine seat to Franco Colapinto - walking through the paddock smiling shortly after Colapinto's accident.
The drivers eliminated from qua𝓀lifying and who will form grid positions P16-20 are:
Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)
Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)
Esteban Ocon (Haas)
Oliver Bearman (Haas)
Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)
F♓ranco Colapinto ꧅has crashed right at the end of Q1!
It's a big impact for the Argentine driver on his Al🧸pine debut. Colapinto is out of his car and okay after a heavy hit with the barriers, but his car is certaiﷺnly worse for wear.
He had set a time good enough to advance🌱 Q2 but he will not be able to take part in the session now.&nbꦆsp;
Colapinto already has a ཧsuspected one-place grid pe💦nalty coming as well after being released into the pit lane too early before the first red flag ended.
Max Verstappen goes fastest in his Red💮 Bull, three tenths clear of Oscar Piastri's McLaren and Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin.
🐬The Ferraris are only ninth with Charles Leclerc and 11th for Lewis Hamilton.
The two Saubers and two𒁏 Haas' are currently in the drop zone, along with Yuki Tsunoda who is out after his enormous crash and will start tomorrow's grand prix plum last.
After a del✤ay to allow for those aforementioned repairs to take place, Q1 is back underway.
This just in frꦡom the FIA, explaining the c🐽urrent delay.
"Yꦫuki Tsunoda has been taken to the Medical Centre. Repairs are currently being made to the light panel and tyre conveyor belt at the scene of the accidentꦕ."
A HUGE shunt for Yuki Tsunoda in Q1 at Imola 💥
— ltxcn.top – Formula 1 (@ltxcn.top_F1)
The Red Bull F1 driver is ok 👍
That's a 𝕴big crash for Yuki Tsunoda at the Villeneuve chicౠane. He's out of the car and is ok.
That was a huge impact! Tsunoda's car actually rolled after a hit with the barriers wh💃ich has completely destroyed the r෴ear-end of the RB21.
The red flag is 𒁏out and the clock is stopped with 12 minutes 13 seconds left.
It's Alex Albon who sets🏅 the pace after the opening laps of Q1.
The Williams driver sits 0.074s clear of Aston Martin's Fernan𓆉do Alonso, and Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari.
Carlos Sainz 🌜and Charles Lecl✨erc are fourth and fifth in the other Williams and Ferrari cars.
We have a green light at the end of the pitlan𒀰e and that means Q1 - the first part of qualifying - is underway. ꦺ;
The slowest five drivers will be knocked out of this 18-minute session, with 15 progressing on to Q🧸2.
Remarkably, the margin 🐎for pole position has been less than a tenth at all but one of the six rounds so far this season, underlining just how tigh♓t and competitive qualifying is in 2025.
We look set for another clo🧸se battle at Imola. Q1 gets underway at 3pm BS🌌T.
We ar✅e around 40 minutes away from the start of what is set to be a crucial qualifying session at Imola.
Given the tight and twisty nature of this classic F1 track, which makes overtaking tricky💟, the grid order could prove to be pivotal come race day.
McLaren look the team to beat after dominating practice, with Oscar Piastri leading both of Fridays sessions ahead of Land𒅌o Norris, who turned the tables on his teammate in Saturday morning's FP3.
It is incredibly tight behi🐟n✅d and Red Bull's Max Verstappen appears to be the nearest challenger after bouncing back from a difficult Friday.
It a🐲ppears to be McLaren's pole position to lose, but can anyone else spr𝕴ing a surprise?
Norrisღ, Piastri, Verstappe💯n, Antonelli, Leclerc, Sainz, Hadjar, Russell, Albon and Hamilton.
