McLaren’s Oscar Piastri grabbed pole position for Sunday’s Emilia-Romagna Formula One Grand Prix as Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda survived a spectacular high-speed crash in qualifying here on Saturday.

Australian Piastri clocked a fastest lap of 1min 46.670sec to finish just 0.034sec ahead of Dutch world champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull with Britain’s George Russell of Mercedes in third place on the grid.