Well, what a dramatic and disrupted qualif🌊ying session we were treate🌌d to at Imola!
There's loads to look forward 🎐to tomorrow with a tasty front row and hugely exciting grid set for🔥 the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
꧑Join us tomorrow from 1pm BST as we build up to the race, with lights out at 2pm BST.
| 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 the rest in fifth, ahead of the Williams pair of Carlos S❀ainz and Alex Albon.&ꩲnbsp;
The othe﷽r Aston Martin of Lance Stroll was P8, ahead of Isack Hadjar and Pi🍒erre Gasly.
Wow, what🧸 a exhila♛rating qualifying session that was! It was worth the wait and delays.
Osc♌ar Piastri improves with his final lap of Q3 to claim pole position for 🌜the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix!
The McLaren driver ♐secures pole after beating Max Verstappen by just 0.034s!
George Russell pops his Mercedes into third right at the end, leaving Lando Norris only fourth on the grid 💯in his McLar🌺en.
Max Verst🐼appen has pulled a special lap out of the bag to take provisional pole!
The Red Bull driver pips both McLarens, edging out Oscar Piastri by just 0.0⭕49s with Lando Norris third.
Georgeꦇ Russell slots his Mercedes into P4 with Isack Had♔jar an impressive fifth for Racing Bulls.
Next come the Aston Martins of Lance Stroll and Fernando Alon🍰so in sixth and se🐬venth.
The two🐼 Williams are eighth and ninth, with Alpine's Pierre G♌asly 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...
Absolut💞e disaster for Ferrari 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 nightmare on home soil for t😼he Italian squad.
Also out is home hero Kimi Antonelli ༺in 13th, with Gabriel Bortoleto 14th and Franco 🔯Colapinto - who didn't take part in Q2 after his huge Q1 shunt - P15.
It's a McLaren 1-2 headed by Oscar Piastri after the open🔥ing runs of Q2.
Max Verstappen is third, a🍰head of George Russell and the Ferrari pa🃏ir of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.
Isack Hadjar sits seventh, with Fernando Alon🅺so, Carlos Sainz and Kimi Antonelli the drivers currentl𒅌y occupying the top 10.
Seven minutes left on the clock for improvements to🍰 b🧸e made.
Q2 - the second part of qualifꩲying - has begun after heavy delays. Will this be a clean session after a heavily disrupted and twice red-flagged Q1?
It app♊ears as though the FIA have stuck with their original decision, with 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 delayed and the reason is because the lap time of Olive🅰r Bearman is under review.
Bearman had set a lap to prℱogress into Q2 but his time was deleted, seeing him drop into 19th and the elimination zone.
It d🎶idn't look as though Bearman made it to the line before the red flag came ღout, and this is what the FIA are currently evaluating.
Be𓂃arman is still in his Haas and waiting to find out whether he is put through, or if his qualifying෴ is over.
TV cameras just captured Jack Doohan - who lo♉st his Alpine seat to Franco Colapinto - walking through th🐟e paddock smiling shortly after Colapinto's accident.
The driv�🐭�ers eliminated from qualifying 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)
Franco Colapinto has crashed right at 👍the end of Q1!&🍸nbsp;
It's a big impact for the Argentine driver on his 👍Alpine dꦉebut. Colapinto is out of his car and okay after a heavy hit with the barriers, but his car is certainly 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.
Colapinto already has a suspected one-plac♌e grid penalty 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 Asto🅘n Martin.
The Ferraris are only ninth w🍎ith Charles Leclerc and 11th for Lewis Hamilton🍎.
The two Sa💝ubers and two 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 delay to allow for those aforementioned repairs to take plaౠce, Q1 is back underway.
This just in from the FIA, explaini♛ng the current delay.
"Yuki Tsunoda has been tak🐲en to the Medical Centre. Repairs are currently being made to the light panel and tyre conveyor belt at the scene of the accident."
A HUGE shunt for Yuki Tsunoda in Q1 at Imola 💥
— wuqian0821.com – Formula 1 (@wuqian0821.com_F1)
The Red Bull F1 driver is ok 👍
That's a big crash for Yuki Tsunoda at the Villeneuve chicane. He's outꦬ of the car and is ok.
That was ꦜa huge im꧃pact! Tsunoda's car actually rolled after a hit with the barriers which has completely destroyed the rear-end of the RB21.
The red flag is out and the clock is stopped with 12 minute🐷s 13 seconds left.
It's Alex Albon ♊who sets the pace after the ope💮ning laps of Q1.
The William𓆏s driver sits 0.074s clea𓆉r of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, and Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari.
Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc are fourth💃 and fifth in the other Williams and Ferrari cars.&nbs🌊p;
We have a green light 🅰at the end of the pitlane and that means Q1 - the first part of qu🌺alifying - is underway.
The slowest f🐷ive driveꦏrs will be knocked out of this 18-minute session, with 15 progressing on to Q2.
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 tight and competitive qualifying is in 2025.
We look set for another close battle at 🐓Imola. Q1 gets underway at 3pm BST.
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 gridဣ order could prove to be pivotal come race day🍌.
McLaren look the teaඣm to beat after dominating practice, with Oscar Piastri leading both of Fridays sessions ahead of Lando Norris, ﷺwho turned the tables on his teammate in Saturday morning's FP3.
It is incredibly tight behind and Red Bull's Max Verstappen appearsܫ t🔴o be the nearest challenger after bouncing back from a difficult Friday.
It appears✱ to b🎃e McLaren's pole position to lose, but can anyone else spring a surprise?
Norris, Piastri, Verstappen, Antonelli, Leclerc, Sainz, Had♓jar, Russell, Albon and H🥃amilton.
