F1: George Russell achieved Pole in the Canada GP and will live another duel with Max Verstappen
The English flew with his Mercedes in the last attempt of the classification and snatched the Dutch first for 160 thousandths. They will share the front row after the controversy of Spain.
If Liberty Media, a company that owns the F1, would have appealed to a book by Alfred Hitchcock, the suspense master, he could probably not have written such a perfect libretto for the Lap of the Canada GP, tenth date of the 2025 season. The World Cup arrived in a state of boiling to Montreal between Max Verstappen and George Russell after the GP of Spain. In Barcelona, the Dutch lost the stirrups in an incredible way due to a cluster of situations. A bad decision of the Red Bull team when wearing hard tires for the last laps after the security car, an overpraft of Charles Leclerc that complained on the radio for a touch, a long pass in the first curve that took the Austrian Team to leave the place to the pilot of Mercedes … UF, all that, the tetrampa champion channeled it in the worst way: Russell and, at the time he overcame him, he hit him a furious Autazo! The FIA picked up the glove and sanctioned Max with ten seconds and two points in its superlicancia, with which it reached 11 and remained to be suspended.
Then the statements arrived, Russell asking for exemplifying sanctions because those images are seen in the world. Verstappen responding that he would take scarves to the next race … A day later, the Dutch accepted his mistake and acknowledged that his maneuver was inadequate. But the weather was on. To top it off, with the Dutch on the edge of the suspension for a date if adds another point in its superlicance. And what happened in Canada? They will share the first row of start!
¿What will happen in that first curve that is so close from the grid? “I can play a little more because I have several points on my license,” Russell said as previous. Verstappen He already warned in the previous one that he would not change his way of running. Does anyone doubt that Max will go on the tip on the pique? “I would have preferred to be first, but I am happy with second place, we will see what we can do,” he said.
The closure of the Canadian classification was very vibrant. Because Verstappen had the first place with his Red Bull, but Oscar Piastri beat him. The Australian lasted nothing, because the Dutch recovered it. And Russell appeared out of nowhere and went down to all. “Getting pole, being honest, that last lap was probably one of the most exciting of my life. I saw that I was going faster in each curve, and getting first place was a real surprise, but it was very happy, ”said the English After getting his sixth pole position, all with the silver arrows.
Mercedes met the combo that best falls to W16 (as happened with its predecessor, the W15): a track that does not degrade much the tires and a fresh atmosphere. Those are the ideal conditions for silver arrows and Russell showed it. Kimi Antonelli, his absolute partner and debutant in Montreal, was fourth. The German team is facing the great opportunity to achieve their first victory of the year, after the four podiums they achieved with Russell.
Russell and Verstappen, beyond their personal duel, will not be able to neglect from Piastri. The World Cup leader lived a weekend from very less to more. After staying far in Friday’s training, he improved a little on Saturday and, when the key moment came, he got in the second row and expectation. Meanwhile, Lando Norris, his McLaren partner, failed again in the classification, once again and go … The English was seventh after losing the first attempt of Q3 when cutting the link of curves 13 and 14 and committing another error in the final attempt. Norris’s maximum rival in his dream of being world champion is not Piestri, he is Norris.
And Ferrari? Far. After some hints of yield demonstrated in trials, Lewis Hamilton was fifth on the track that has it a maximum winner (tied with Michael Schumacher with seven) and Charles Leclerc was eighth after losing the car in the final attempt, an own mistake that tries to hide in a radio anger with Isack Hadjar.
The cards are thrown. The first hand of this game will be played in the start just: will one more chapter of the Verstappen-Russell duel be lived?
Classification results
