Max Verstappen met expectations and took pole position at the Canadian GP, but the leading role was taken by those who will chase him at the start: Fernando Alonso Y Carlos Sainz They will come out 2nd and 3rd.
The session was played in rainy conditions, which made the Spaniards’ hands shine. Both will go on the attack.
Q1: First clues
The track started out completely flooded, forcing everyone to get out and ride during the first session on wet tyres. That meant that there was no clear favorite until the end, when the lane was already absolute.
So the fastest was Max Verstappenwith a final lap he achieved . Fernando Alonso He finished less than 6 hundredths behind the Dutchman and ahead of Carlos Sainzwhich starred in a scare at the end (almost the only one) that caused a yellow flag.
The progressive improvement of the track meant that those eliminated were little expected. Thus, for example, the most defeated team was AlphaTauri, since its two pilots were left out: Gasly, Vettel, Stroll, Latifi and Tsunoda they did not dispute Q2.
Canadian Grand Prix Q1 Times Table
Q2: ‘Czech’ leaves Verstappen alone
Qualifying was halted with 9 minutes remaining in Q2 due to Sergio Perez. The Mexican crashed at the Turn 3 chicane, just after Alex Alban had another similar blow in the turn 8 area.
While Williams’ was worthy of a yellow flag, Red Bull’s was red flagged and stopped the session for a few minutes.
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This incident helped make the track noticeably dry, at least in his lane. Consequently, the times progressively dropped until the end, which made it impossible to predict not only the best time but also the eliminated ones.
It was not until the last moment that Verstappen swept the best time with a margin of one second over an Alonso who repeated 2nd. The news was that the Haas went to Q3 and, above all, an unexpected Guanyu Zhou who did it for the first time. Those who did not pass were Ricciardo, Bottas, Albon, Perez, Norris and Leclerc.
Canadian Grand Prix Q2 Times Table
Q3: Verstappen makes pole position over the Spaniards
From the first attempt they realized that it was going to be a classification to the limit, and it did not disappoint. On a track that has already made a dry lane, only George Russell risked putting on dry tires… and he was wrong. He went off track and crashed.
The fight for pole was left in the hands of three men: Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz… and Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard waited until the end, aware that the track was going to improve, and in the end he was six tenths behind the Dutchman, but he showed that he is in a position to fight at almost 41 years of age.
It is his best grid position since Spain 2012.