Michael Schumacher snatched a last-gasp pole position today as Ferrari gave their flag-waving fans a front-row sweep for Sunday's San Marino Grand Prix.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, Schumacher's team mate, had led at the chequered flag and looked sure of his second pole in four races.
But four times world champion Schumacher had already started his final lap when the flag fell and he swept the luckless Brazilian aside by 0.64 of a second.
It was the German's 45th career pole position and his time of one minute 21.091 seconds was well inside the race lap record of 1:25.524.
Barrichello gave the Italian fans a day to celebrate by sealing the all-scarlet front row at a circuit named after the team's late founder Enzo and his son Dino.
Ferrari's strongest rivals Williams filled the second row, with Ralf Schumacher - winner here last year - third fastest and Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya fourth.
The two McLarens of Finland's Kimi Raikkonen and Britain's David Coulthard filled the third row.
Schumacher's time was the fastest lap at the circuit since it was reconfigured in 1995 after the deaths there the previous year of Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Austrian Roland Ratzenberger.