\t\t\t\t\t2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix – Sprint Qualifying results<\/p>\n
George Russell has taken pole position for the sprint race at the Canadian Grand Prix, besting Kimi Antonelli to the top spot.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
While it was the championship leading-Antonelli who entered the session in top form, it was his team-mate Russell who jumped to the head of the pack on Saturday afternoon.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Most of the drivers managed to improve their lap times on the second time of asking, with both Mercedes’ stretching out a large gap over the competition.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lando Norris was third, leading McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, while the Ferrari duo of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were fifth and sixth, respectively.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Two cars failed to take part in the session – Liam Lawson and Alex Albon, due to damage inflicted on their cars during practice.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Check out the full sprint qualifying results below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Canadian Grand Prix – Sprint Qualifying results George Russell has taken pole position for the sprint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-440845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}