Kimi Raikkonen takes Ferrari’s first pole in front of its home crowd since 2010 with a record breaking lap-time in Monza.
Raikkonen set the fastest official lap in F1 history, a 1m19.119s, to take his first pole since Monaco last season, ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel.
Both Ferrari drivers and Lewis Hamilton broke the record twice during the final part of qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, but it was the Finn, who cross the line last of the trio, to take the glory.
He was given a tow by Vettel on both his laps in Q3 which might have given him the edge over his team-mate, who finished with a time just 0.161s slower.
Hamilton was top of the order after the first round of Q3 laps, his 1m19.390s less than a tenth of a second quicker than Raikkonen’s first time.
He improved on his second lap to a 1m19.294s but it was only enough to put him third on the gird.
Valtteri Bottas took fourth ahead of Max Verstappen and Romain Grosjean.
Carlos Sainz, Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, and Lance Stroll rounded out the top 10.
Kevin Magnussen narrowly missed out on a spot in the final qualifying session. Most of the field headed out in the final minutes of Q2, causing traffic on the Italian circuit. The Haas driver started his lap just ahead of the McLaren of Fernando Alonso, but Alonso caught him before the first corner. The pair ran side by side through the chicane, coming close to touching on a number of occasions and ruining both drivers’ laps.
Magnussen had to settle for 11th while Alonso will start tomorrow’s race P13.
Williams managed to get both drivers through to Q2, with Sergey Sirotkin putting himself 12th for his first Italian GP.
Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo both made it through to Q2, but with grid penalties for engine changes both will start from the back of the grid. Marcus Ericsson also took an engine change after his dramatic FP2 crash and will join them at the back of the field.
Sergio Perez was just 0.001s behind the cut off time at the end of Q1. Force India appeared to misjudge the times in an incredibly close qualifying session and the Mexican driver was left in P16, though penalties for those ahead of him will bump him up the grid.
Charles Leclerc qualified 17th, ahead of Brendon Hartley, Ericsson, and Stoffel Vandoorne.
