It was a McLaren one-two once again as Oscar Piastri led team-mate Lando Norris in the second practice at the Formula 1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. Pierre Gasly for Alpine was third, Mercedes’ George Russell fourth again ahead of Max Verstappen in fifth for Red Bull.

An absolute disaster on home soil for Ferrari, as Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton slumped to a woeful double Q2 elimination.

Oscar Piastri fought his way through traffic to take pole position in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on Saturday as Ferrari had a terrible session, with neither car in the top 10. Piastri admitted he “thought it was going to unravel” when he came up to slower cars toward the end of his final qualifying lap but it still proved enough as Max Verstappen fell just .