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Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix
Venue: Imola Date: 18 May Race start: 14:00 BST on Sunday
Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra; live text updates on BBC Sport website and app
McLaren's Oscar Piastri beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen to pole position at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in a qualifying session that featured an enormous accident for Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda.
Piastri edged Verstappen by 0.034 seconds despite encountering traffic in the final two corners and failing to improve his time in the final sector.
Both Verstappen and McLaren's Lando Norris fell short on their final laps, and the Briton was demoted to fourth by Mercedes' George Russell.
And the surprise of qualifying was both the performance of the Aston Martin team and the failure of Ferrari to get either car into the top 10.
Fernando Alonso took Aston Martin's best result of the season with fifth place, team-mate Lance Stroll also making the top 10 in eighth place.
Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton could manage only 11th and 12th places at Ferrari's first home race of the season, underlining their continuing struggles.
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