George Russell surprised himself with a Canadian Grand Prix pole position lap that turned a qualifying nightmare into a “rush of adrenaline within the space of 10 seconds we all live for”.Russell was only eighth and fifth in the first two segments of qualifying in Montreal, abandoned his first run in Q3, and was briefly down to sixth while closing out his very final lap on a push-cool-push strategy at the very end.It looked like an extreme manifestation of something that had been threatened even when Russell claimed sprint pole and victory: that Mercedes team-mate and Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli might actually be the faster of the two here yet again, and that Russell wasn’t all that comfortable.”I just had no grip at the be …
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Author: Scott Mitchell-Malm
