Lewis Hamilton has described his final qualifying effort as "piss poor" after🌠 he was beaten by teammate Valtteri Bottas to pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand💜 Prix.

Hamilton headed 💃the timesheets after the opening runs of Q3 but he was unable to match his teammate com🤪e the final laps, missing out on pole by just 0.097s.

Reflecting on♓ missing out on pole position at Imola, Hamilton was not happy with his final Q3 lap.

"Valtteri did a great job and it was a pretty piss p꧒oor lap from myself," Hamilton said. "These things happen, you can't always get it perfect.”

Imola has received plaudits from all of the drivers, including Hamilton, but the reigning champion expects overtaking opportunities to be few and far betweඣen in Sunday’s race.

"The speed that we’re d🌞oing from T2 onwards is really 🔜intense, the lap, just non-stop, medium, high-speed, the grip is very, very high, so naturally, the faster you’re going the harder it is to be inch-perfect,” Hamilton added.

"Valtteri did a great job today, it’s not going to be a great race circuit that’s for sure, I’ll be really surprised if it’s a great race to watch tomorrow as once you get intoꦇ Turn 2 you can’t follow. I hope I’m wrong.

"I mean Qualifying is perhaps a little bit like Monaco in that sense, Iও think the strategy as well is going to be interesting tomorrow, but there’s usually only a couple of options. It won’t be as good as last race in terms of opportunities to overtake, places you can follow, but as I said maybe we’ll be surprised.”