Piastri grabs Imola pole

Championship leader Oscar Piastri calmly delivered a near-flawless lap under acute pressure yesterday to claim pole position for McLaren ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The 24-year-old Australian clocked a best lap in one minute and 14.670 seconds shrugging aside a cluster of slower drivers at the final corner, to beat the four-time world champion by 0.34 seconds. In a delayed and incident-hit qualifying session of two redflag interruptions, it was his