NASCAR Cup Sonoma: Logano beats Reddick to pole position
One week after teammate Austin Cindric took a surprise win at Gateway, Logano held on to the top starting position after all 10 cars hit the track in the final minute of Saturday’s final round of qualifying.Logano’s lap at 97.771 mph was enough to claim his third pole of the 2024Continue Reading
How Hamilton’s data helped Russell snatch Canada F1 pole
Hamilton had looked well on top of things in final practice in Montreal, as he ended Saturday morning’s session nearly fourth-tenths clear of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Russell.And it was that pace advantage that prompted Russell to dig a bit deeper into what Hamilton was doing.Having gone through hisContinue Reading
Ferrari F1 drivers baffled after Canadian GP Q2 exit
Leclerc won the Monaco GP two weeks ago and his Ferrari team arrived in Canada as favourites for victory in Montreal given the nature of the circuit, which favours the characteristics of its car.But both Leclerc and team-mate Carlos Sainz were eliminated in Q2 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with theContinue Reading
Perez’s current F1 issues “psychological”, not car issue – Marko
The recently re-signed Perez, whose new two-year deal with Red Bull was announced on Tuesday, followed up his exit in the opening stage of qualifying two weeks ago in Monaco with a similar vein of misfortune at Montreal.He qualified only 16th in Canada, having been dumped into the drop zoneContinue Reading
F1 Canadian Grand Prix – Start time, starting grid, how to watch, & more
Russell set a best time of a 1m12.000s on his first run of the session and, although he couldn’t improve with his second run, the Mercedes driver secured his second career pole position. Max Verstappen set an identical laptime to the Briton but, by virtue of setting the effort after RussellContinue Reading
IndyCar Road America: Lundqvist takes shock pole, Newgarden crashes
The Swede extracted a flying lap of 1m45.1519s in the final seconds of qualifying to climb to the top of the leaderboard at the 14-turn circuit.Andretti Global’s Colton Herta, last year’s pole-sitter at Road America, finished second fastest, 0.1394s behind Lundqvist.Marcus Armstrong made it two Chip Ganassi Racing drivers inContinue Reading
F1 team-mates’ qualifying battles: Canadian GP
After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this willContinue Reading
2024 F1 Canadian GP qualifying results: George Russell takes pole
Russell will start ahead of Verstappen, despite the dead heat, and McLaren’s Lando Norris after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Canadian Grand Prix grid: Russell on pole from VerstappenContinue Reading
F1 Canadian GP: Russell on pole after dead heat with Verstappen
The Briton set his best lap of Q3 in the opening runs, posting a 1m12.000s to lay down a benchmark for the final runs at the end of the session. He was joined in the top two by Lewis Hamilton after those opening laps, but fresh tyres at the endContinue Reading
RB announces Tsunoda to stay for F1 2025
With Sergio Perez signing a new deal at Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen, Tsunoda saw his slim chances of being promoted to the main team vanish, and the Japanese driver was widely expected to remain at RB instead.The Anglo-Italian outfit has now confirmed it has taken up the option toContinue Reading