Lewis Hamilton's poor Belgian Grand Prix weekend continued with a shock Q1 exit after a track limits penalty.
Placed 16th, Hamilton posted a 1:41.664 attempt to climb safely into the top 10 and secure a Q2 berth, but the Ferrari driver quickly had the lap deleted.
He was pinged for a track limits violation at Turn 4 - Raidillon - and dropped back down to P16, 0.031s from safety with Gabriel Bortoleto given a reprieve.
Hamilton had asked the team if the lap "was okay", but was then told by engineer Riccardo Adami that he was P16, and out.
It comes after he was 18th in Sprint qualifying, after suffering a "career-first" rear-locking incident at the Bus-Stop chicane on his final lap. In the Sprint itself, Hamilton was 15th.
He was joined in the elimination zone by Franco Colapinto, Kimi Antonelli, Fernando Alonso, and Lance Stroll, of Alpine, Mercedes and both Aston Martins, respectively.
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