Five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton joined the 21-year-old Monegasque on the front row for Mercedes, with Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas third and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel fourth.
“That was worse than a junior formula,” a fuming Toto Wolff, team principal of world champions Mercedes, told Sky Sports television. Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen, the other driver through to the final phase of qualifying and last year’s pole sitter for Ferrari, had earlier crashed at Parabolica — halting the session for 11 minutes. When the session re-started, with Leclerc on provisional pole after setting the pace before the red flag, there were minutes of inaction.
The irony of the slowest of qualifying laps at the fastest of tracks, a circuit where slip-streaming can be a huge benefit to lap time, was not lost on Hamilton who has taken more poles than any driver in history.
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