Vettel torches Montreal record to take pole
Vettel torches Montreal record to take pole
Sebastian Vettel will start the Canadian Grand Prix on pole after a record-breaking performance at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Vettel clocked one minute 10.764 seconds, with Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas nine thousandths of a second adrift alongside him on the front row. Max Verstappen - dominant in practice - will start third alongside Lewis Hamilton on row two.
Vettel's fourth pole position in Canada is Ferrari's first in Montreal since 2001 and snaps a run of Mercedes dominance that had yielded consecutive wins for Hamilton in the past three years.
Mercedes offered a downbeat forecast for the race weekend after having to shelve a power unit upgrade, but they pushed the Scuderia all the way, with Bottas delivering a surprise performance, besting his team-mate at his most successful track.
Verstappen's third-place start will give confidence to a Red Bull side that has looked like the fastest car for much of the weekend.
The Dutchman is also a man on a mission after a difficult Monaco Grand Prix and had topped the timesheets in every practice session.
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Vettel's advantage over Hamilton will give the German hope of eating into his 14-point lead in the drivers' standings, although Kimi Raikkonen is not between them on the grid after botching his final run in Q3.
Daniel Ricciardo, winner in Monaco, heads up the leading teams, who are separated by just three tenths of a second, with Force India and Renault making up the top 10.
Fernando Alonso will start his 300th grand prix in 14th, with McLaren's early promise fading away on Saturday yet again.
Romain Grosjean's Haas is again displaced - at the back of the grid - after his engine blew on his way onto the circuit at the start of Q1.
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Q2
Alonso had looked like a potential best-of-the-rest contender in Friday practice, but McLaren's familiar one-lap deficit came back to haunt them. Kevin Magnussen, Brendon Hartley and Charles Leclerc showed their team-mates what might have been possible, but Force India and Renault had too much.
Q1
Grosjean began the session with a bang, while Marcus Ericsson was perhaps lucky to only suffer elimination as a result of clipping the wall while overtaking Ricciardo. The Williams took their customary position in the bottom five, joined by a disappointed Pierre Gasly, who had to change power unit just before the session started.
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