George Russell won the qualification at the Canada Grand Prix and starts in the race on Sunday (8:00 p.m.) in front of Max Verstappen and Oscar Piatri.
The Briton drove the fastest round in Montreal in the silver arrow in 1: 10.899 minutes and can hope for his first Formula 1 season on Sunday.
World champion Max Verstappen, whose race weekend is all about a threatening racing lock, drove in the Q3 in his Red Bull for a long time with the best time, but in the end lost the pole position to Russell.
“The last round was one of the most exciting in my life. I am very, very happy about it”said Russell, who was 0.160 seconds ahead of defending champion Verstappen.
The Dutchman stands at eleven penalty points and must remain clean as part of the Canada Grand Prix and the race in Spielberg. In Montreal he chases his fourth victory in a row.
Before the tenth of a total of 24 season runs, the Australian Piatri in the McLaren, third in qualifying, leads in the overall ranking with a ten -point lead over the stable rival Lando Norris, who was only seventh in qualification. Verstappen is only in third place behind the leader behind the leader. The 27-year-old Dutch had won three times in Quebec in the past three years.
Nico Hülkenberg, the only German driver in the field, won 13th place. Due to a punishment for Yuki Tsunoda, the 37-year-old from the Rhineland will start.
Red Bull Pilot Tsunoda got a high starting place sentence after a violation in the third free training. As the racing commissioners announced during the subsequent qualifying, the Japanese is relocated by ten ranks in the starting line -up. The reason for this is an overtaking tsunoda against McLaren-Pilot Piatri under red flags.
Piatri had maneuvered his car back to the box after contact with the wall and tire damage, tsunoda overtook the slow Australian in contrast. According to the judgment, Tsunoda would have “Follow a safe distance” should be punished.