“Sorry guys”, said Lewis Hamilton. “My God, my God, my God”, comments Charles Leclerc at the end of the Q2 session. The two Ferraris are excluded from the Q3 at Imola in front of the home crowd.

Frustration is high at the Scuderia Ferrari that needs to deliver.  “We need a miracle to finish in the second row”, had said Leclerc on Friday, but the situation is more critical than expected. “It hurts, please believe us. Seeing so many fans, we just want to express our excuses”, said Charles Leclerc to the microphones of Sky.

Hamilton echoes:  “We need to ask the tifosi to be patient. For how long? I don’t know”, said Hamilton on Thursday, underlying, “I am not a patient person”.

The pole  position of  Emilia Romagna Grand Prix the goes to the McLaren driver Oscar Piatri, in front of Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and George Russell for Mercedes.