{"id":659381,"date":"2026-05-22T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659381\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:37:08","slug":"live-russell-fights-back-against-antonelli-for-sprint-pole-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659381\/","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":659382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[124578,124581,124579,124582,124580,5027,1080,30648,7193,10097,2094,99],"class_list":["post-659381","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-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}