{"id":455494,"date":"2026-05-23T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/455494\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:13:09","slug":"f1-academy-alisha-palmowski-overshadows-the-field-on-way-to-dominant-pole-position-double-in-montreal-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/455494\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 ACADEMY: Alisha Palmowski overshadows the field on way to dominant pole position double in Montreal Qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Alisha Palmowski refused to let pole position slip out of her grasp, as the Red Bull Racing driver led from the outset all the way to the chequered flag in F1 ACADEMY Montreal Qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The Briton showed no signs of slowing throughout the 30-minute session, clocking in repeated personal bests to take pole position for Sunday\u2019s Feature Race by 0.390s with a 1m 38.466s. Palmowski\u2019s consistency paid off as her second-fastest lap was good enough to take pole for Saturday morning\u2019s Opening Race by four tenths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Mercedes driver Payton Westcott earned her first front row start in P2, ahead of Megan Bruce, but the TAG Heuer driver\u2019s second-quickest effort moved her ahead of the American for the Opening Race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Emma Felbermayr and Mathilda Paatz matched their efforts to claim P4 and P5 on both grids. Alba Larsen was sixth-fastest ahead of Rafaela Ferreira and Kaylee Countryman, with the Haas driver earning her first P1 start for the Reverse Grid Race in the process. Nina Gademan wound up in ninth ahead of Lisa Billard in 10th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Ferreira\u2019s second-fastest effort moves her ahead of Larsen into P6, with Billard, Countryman and Gademan completing the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">For an in-depth report on the F1 ACADEMY Qualifying session in Montreal, visit the official website <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiaGVyZV9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mMWFjYWRlbXkuY29tL0xhdGVzdC8yQzBxcFpOS1JFZEM0aG1uUTBBSnBhL3F1YWxpZnlpbmctcGFsbW93c2tpLWRvbWluYXRlcy1mcm9tLXRoZS1vdXRzZXQtdG8tc2VhbC1tb250cmVhbC1wb2xlIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJleHRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.f1academy.com\/Latest\/2C0qpZNKREdC4hmnQ0AJpa\/qualifying-palmowski-dominates-from-the-outset-to-seal-montreal-pole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alisha Palmowski refused to let pole position slip out of her grasp, as the Red Bull Racing driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-455494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}