F1 Qualifying Results: 2026 Canadian Grand Prix times and grid positions

George Russell completed a perfect Saturday at the Canadian Grand Prix, taking grand prix pole to go with his sprint race victory.

The Brit beat his team-mate Kimi Antonelli by the exact same time as he did in sprint qualifying 24 hours previously, down to the thousandth of a second.

The second row will be filled by the papaya cars of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri (in that order), with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen sharing the third row.

Meanwhile, things went back to normal at the bottom of the field on Saturday, with both Cadillacs and Aston Martins knocked out at the first time of asking after Fernando Alonso snuck into SQ2 on Friday.

In fact, the two embattled teams will share the last two rows on the grid, with Alonso and Lance Stroll 19th and 21st. Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas will start 20th and 22nd respectively.

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F1 Qualifying Results: Canadian Grand Prix 2026

Changes to F1 Qualifying in 2026

There are a couple of changes to the way qualifying works this year, not quite as sweeping as the new technical regulations.

Firstly we now have 22 cars on the grid, so instead of 5 cars exiting after Q1 and Q2, we will have 6 being eliminated. That still leaves 10 for the pole shootout in Q3.

The other notable change is in the timings - Q3 now gets an extra minute and lasts for 13 rather than 12.

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