Charles Leclerc led Ferrari to pole position for the Italian Grand Prix after edging out Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton in a qualifying session that ended in farcical fashion. Leclerc managed to take provisional pole for Ferrari with a lap of 1m19.307s on his first run in Q3, edging out Hamilton and Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas by less than half a tenth of a second. But eight of the 10 drivers who made Q3 missed the chequered flag at the end of the session as the field bunched together, trying to get the tow from others, unwilling to be the first in the queue. The clock counted down to zero with only Leclerc and McLaren's Carlos Sainz getting across the line before the session ended,...
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