{"id":688179,"date":"2026-05-22T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:59:08","slug":"live-russell-fights-back-against-antonelli-for-sprint-pole-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/688179\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Russell fights back against Antonelli for sprint pole in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the first competitive session of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, as sprint qualifying is next up on the F1 schedule.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Antonelli enters the session as the man in form, having set a strong lap time in free practice, riding a wave of confidence after securing three consecutive grand prix victories.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes looked to have a significant advantage over the pack at the end of free practice, with Antonelli leading his team-mate George Russell.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But what can Russell respond with, and who will take early advantage into Saturday? It&#8217;s time to find out!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Follow sprint qualifying below with updates as well as live timing!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time for the first competitive session of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, as sprint qualifying is next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-688179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}