George Russell says there is “more to come” from Mercedes after he took their first pole position for nearly a year at the Canadian Grand Prix.
George Russell said there was “more to come” from Mercedes after he took their first pole position for nearly a year at the Canadian Grand Prix.
“It's sort of come from nowhere,” Russell said. “But maybe not a surprise with the upgrades we've been bringing.” Russell said: “We brought these upgrades to Monaco, which has been a really challenging circuit for us in the past, and we were 0.1secs from the front row and we thought going into Montreal we had a shot here.
Leclerc will start 11th with team-mate Carlos Sainz alongside him in 12th and both drivers said they had "no grip at all".His Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton had been comfortably the quickest driver earlier in the day, Russell lagging 0.4secs behind. The younger man looked into what was going on. “Had plenty of pace in P3,” he said, “and in qualifying it just disappeared. Grip was just not there.”
Off track, this weekend has been one dominated by the driver market, with Red Bull confirming Sergio Perez - who had his third qualifying stinker in a row and lines up 16th - as Verstappen’s team-mate for the next two years and then Yuki Tsunoda’s place at RB.
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