Listen to this article Hamilton scraped through to the second stage of qualifying for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix by just four-thousandths of a second, but could not make it through to top-10 shootout. A red flag after the initial runs in Q2 gave time for incoming rain to scupper any chance of improving lap times, leaving Hamilton 13th, two places behind Mercedes teammate George Russell. It marked the second time in four races Hamilton failed to reach Q3, having been knocked out in Q1 in Saudi Arabia, and was the first time since Japan 2012 that Mercedes didn’t get a car into the final stage of qualifying. “It wasn’t a great session, naturally it’s disappointing,” Hamilton said. “[You] come here with optimism and you know everyone is working really hard at the factory, and things just don’t come together. “It’s disappointing. I think we underperformed as a team today. There are things that we should have done that we didn’t do. “Anyways. We’ll work as hard as we can to move up in the sprint race. It’s going to be a difficult race, but hop …