Verstappen will start ahead of Fernando Alonso of Alpine and Carlos Sainz of Ferrari after the one-hour qualifying session, which is divided into three segments with five cars each eliminated in Q1 and Q2 before the turn of the top 10 of Q3.
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Results of the classification for the Canadian Grand Prix: Verstappen in the pole of Alonso
What happened at the Canadian Grand Prix Q1?
In very wet conditions, Verstappen set the initial pace at 1m35.830s. Then times fell, with George Russell (Mercedes), Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), Russell again, Verstappen, Alonso, Sainz and Verstappen again taking turns at the helm.
Verstappen finished the Q1 with the best time in 1m32.219s, ahead of Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Sainz, the latter suffering a loss in turn 3 and seeming to prevent Esteban Ocon’s Alpine when he rejoined, despite that the commissioners later exonerated him.
Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll’s Aston Martins, Nicholas Latifi (Williams) and Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri, who was penalizing the grid anyway) fell in the first hurdle.
Results of the Canadian Grand Prix Q1: Alonso’s fastest Verstappen
What happened at the Q2 Canadian Grand Prix?
Alonso set the first bar at 1m30.910s, half a second ahead of Verstappen. Williams’ Alex Albon then fell with his nose on the tire wall at turn 6, a feat that was emulated moments later on turn 3 by Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, who pulled out the red flag while fighting. to reverse and the car was firmly attached to the barrier. anyways.
The track was starting to dry out, so the field was all intermediate for the restart with nine minutes to go. Verstappen took the time P1 to 1m27.764s, with Sainz and Verstappen exchanging the best time between them when a dry line emerged.
Alonso took the P1 with 1m24.848s when the checkered flag came out, before Verstappen overtook him with 1m23.746s on his last lap, with Russell third.
Bottas, Albon, Pérez, Lando Norris (whose McLaren had engine problems) and Leclerc were knocked out at this point, and he did not run due to his grid penalty.
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Results of the Canadian Grand Prix Q2: Alonso’s fastest Verstappen
What happened at the Q3 Canadian Grand Prix?
With the track still too wet for the slicks, Verstappen set the intermediate target time of 1m22.701s, more than a second ahead of the opposition. Mick Schumacher briefly put his Haas in second place, before Sainz and Alonso degraded him.
For the final rolls, Russell, who was fifth at the time, opted for slicks, and everyone else looked more interspersed. Verstappen improved pole time to 1m21,620s, when Russell turned corner 2.
Hamilton was P2, 1,271 seconds from the pole, when the checkered flag came out. Verstappen improved again to 1m21.299s, and Sainz finished second with 1m22.096s, before being defeated by compatriot Alonso by a tenth and a half.
Sainz will be third, ahead of Hamilton, Magnussen, Schumacher, Ocon, Russell, Ricciardo and Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo).
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Q3 Canadian Grand Prix Results: Verstappen takes pole
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