Lewis Hamilton powered to the 95th pole position of his career at the Tuscan Grand Prix.
The six-time world champion headed into Saturday's qualifying session having failed to top any of the three practice sessions staged at Mugello.
But, as he so often does, Hamilton saved his best for the crunch, edging out Valtteri Bottas by just 0.059 seconds as Mercedes secured another front-row lockout.
Max Verstappen was unable to take the challenge to Mercedes - the Dutchman finishing third, 0.365 sec behind Hamilton - with his Red Bull team-mate Alexander Albon fourth.
Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel finished fifth and 14th respectively at Ferrari's 1,000th Grand Prix.
