Lewis Hamilton extended his recent stranglehold on pole position in Formula One, while Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel gave Ferrari fans something to cheer about at their home Italian Grand Prix by qualifying second and third Saturday.
Hamilton's Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg qualified only fourth after reverting to an old engine.
Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel gave Ferrari fans something to cheer about at their home race by qualifying second and third, respectively.
It was Hamilton's seventh straight pole and 11th in 12 races this season, with Rosberg beating him only in Spain.
Ayrton Senna set the record of eight consecutive poles in 1988-89.
"It's nice to see that we have a good fight," said Hamilton, the championship leader. "It's a long run down to turn one and these guys have pace."
It's Raikkonen's first front-row start since China in 2013.
"We surprised ourselves a little bit," Raikkonen said. "It's been a while so it's nice to be here, especially at the home race for us."
In perfect conditions following a morning thunderstorm, throngs of red-clad Ferrari blew air horns and waved flags featuring the team's prancing horse logo.
Hamilton clocked 1 minute, 23.397 seconds around the Monza circuit. Raikkonen was 0.234 behind and Vettel was 0.288 back.
Rosberg, who was a further 18 hundredths behind, went back to the motor he used in Spa two weeks ago following an unspecified problem on his new power unit.
Hamilton holds a 28-point lead over Rosberg, with Vettel 67 points back in third.
The result moved Mercedes within one of Williams' record of 24 straight poles, set in 1992 and 1993 with Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Damon Hill.
The last time Mercedes didn't take pole came at last year's Austrian GP, when Felipe Massa of Williams took the first spot on the grid.
Massa and Williams teammate Valtteri Bottas qualified fifth and sixth, respectively, followed by Sergio Perez of Force India in seventh and Romain Grosjean of cash-strapped Lotus in eighth.
Nico Hulkenberg in the other Force India was ninth and Sauber's Marcus Ericsson rounded out the top 10, although the Swede was under investigation for an impeding incident with Hulkenberg.
Pastor Maldonado of Lotus and Felipe Nasr of Sauber were eliminated in Q2, along with three drivers facing grid penalties for engine changes: Carlos Sainz of Toro Rosso, and Daniil Kvyat and Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull.
Ricciardo didn't even enter the track in Q2.
McLaren's problems continued as Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso were eliminated in Q1, while Max Verstappen failed to record a time after the engine cover of his Toro Rosso flew off.
Plagued by mechanical problems all weekend, Toro Rosso only got Verstappen onto the track in the final seconds of the 18-minute session.