WC Canada: An unreal qualification! The explosion of Pérez, the genius of Verstappen and the failure of each Ferrari | Sports activities.sk

news-content">British racing driver George Russell gained F1 qualification on the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and secured Mercedes’ first pole place of the season. In Saturday’s qualifying on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit, he set a time of 1:12.000 minutes, which was additionally set by the second defending champion and sequence chief Max Verstappen from Pink Bull. Nonetheless, the Briton will begin from the primary place as a result of he set this time first.

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That is the second time that at the very least two drivers have recorded the identical time in F1 qualifying. The final time it occurred was on the 1997 European Championship, when Michael Schumacher, Jacques Villeneuve and Heinz-Harald Frentzen clocked similar instances within the struggle for pole place. Canadian Villeneuve gained first place at the moment.

Russell certified for simply the second time in his profession. He did it earlier than two years in the past in Hungary. Lando Norris will begin from the second row on Sunday (20:00 CET), who took third place in McLaren (+0.021). In fourth place was his Australian teammate Oscar Piastri (+0.103).

At present fifth, Pink Bull’s Mexican Sergio Perez surprisingly didn’t progress to Q2 and can solely begin from sixteenth. Ferrari did not do effectively both, with one driver not making it to the third spherical of qualifying. It occurred to the Italian group for the primary time since 2021. Monaco’s Charles Leclerc solely completed eleventh, whereas his Spanish teammate Carlos Sainz was simply behind him in twelfth place.