George Russell snatched pole position for the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with his strong weekend in Spain continuing in qualifying.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It comes following a brutal run of luck in recent rounds. The Mercedes driver immediately proclaimed himself “back in the groove” of the F1 season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli went second and third quickest in Spain, ahead of Lando Norris and Max Verstappen, who rounded out the top five.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc failed to capitalise on promising pace from Ferrari, bringing out a red flag in Q3 after a bizarre crash at the exit of Turn 4, pausing the clock with 8:30 to go in the final part of the grid-setting session.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Mon\u00e9gasque driver, who was fastest in Q2, appeared to be at fault. Having turned in earlier than the lap before, taking a shallower line, he got wide on the corner exit and opted to power through the misjudgement whilst sliding on the dirtier side of the track.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In trying to counteract and steer into the skid, he suffered a sudden snap, forcing his SF-26 straight on and into the barriers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The only shock of Q1 came in the form of Lance Stroll outqualifying Fernando Alonso for the first time since the 2024 British Grand Prix, in doing so ending a 42-round streak.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Worryingly for the Silverstone-based squad, the pair locked out the final row on the grid and were a second adrift of the Cadillacs ahead.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Check out the full qualifying results from the 2026 F1 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell snatched pole position for the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix with his strong weekend in Spain continuing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734490,"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-734489","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\/734489","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=734489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}