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Explaining Monza's qualifying farce... and what happens next

MONZA, Italy -- You don't see that every day. Charles Leclerc's second pole position in two weeks was just what the tifosi wanted to see ahead of the Italian Grand Prix... but they probably didn't pay to see Q3 unfold the way it did.

Here's our round-up of the good, the bad and the ugly from qualifying at Monza, starting with how the session ended on Saturday afternoon.

So...what was that all about?

It's rare you see Formula One cars trying to go slower than one another, but that's exactly what happened on the final outlap in qualifying at Monza.