Fernando Alonso has returned to the front row of a Grand Prix for the first time in ten years.
He hasn't started this far ahead since 2005. At 20:00 at the Canadian Grand Prix, he will start just behind Max Verstappen who took pole this Saturday.
Behind him and the Spaniard, Carlos Sainz will start.
Lewis Hamilton, who on Saturday declared that his car is "a disaster" "an undrivable car" will start fourth.
The one in Canada is the ninth round of the World Cup that Verstappen leads with 150 points.
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The winner in Monaco, suffered the unspeakable to overcome the Q1 cut;
and was among the first to try intermediates in Q2.
Alexander Albon, who was also wearing a green stripe, was miraculously saved in the sixth corner just before the Mexican lost control in lap 1-2, one of the wettest areas, to stop the session.
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The rest of the classification was schizophrenic, with the HAAS in the third row of the starting grid (Kevin Magnussen fifth and Mick Schumacher sixth), Guanyu Zhou in Q3 (10th), with the Alpha Tauri and Aston Martin sinking in Q1, with a Lando Norris 14th due to power problems in Q2 and with a Sergio Pérez 13th who forced the only red flag of the day.
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When the engine took center stage and the porpoise began to do his thing on the straight, Max Verstappen did not stop dyeing sectors and full time in purple, forced by the two Spanish drivers, and by a Mercedes AMG F1 lurking with a Lewis Hamilton who Today he will start fourth and a George Russell who unsuccessfully risked for pole position.
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Thus, Fernando Alonso will appear today for the first time in a decade on the front row of a starting grid (the last time was his last pole position in Germany 2012).
And for the first time in history we will see two Spanish drivers starting in the top three.
Never ever in the history of F1 have there been two of us on a podium.
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That the rain disappeared and that the conditions evolved to dry, perhaps prevented seeing a Spanish pole position.
Fernando Alonso, who led the FP3, was very regular and stable throughout the weekend and the one who showed the strongest in the wet.
In the end, in Q3, he was six tenths behind, beating Carlos Sainz (3rd) at the last moment.
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In a qualifying phase where it started with rain and on very wet asphalt and ended with an increasingly differentiated dry lane.
First extreme rain, then intermediates and, at the last moment, George Russell (8th), who aspired to be at least on the second row of the grid, took a risk on softs.
The British lasted a curve in his launch.
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However, the Monegasque will start penultimate ahead of Yuki Tsunoda (20th) who also changed his power unit.
The Ferrari waited for the Japanese to fall in Q1 so as not to start in Q2.
Winner of the last four pole positions, he will not see the race slip away today and will try to come back so that his enemy's advantage in the World Championship does not get bigger and bigger.
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The Dutch driver showed his superiority once Ferrari decided to change for the third time the control unit that affects the electronics of Charles Leclerc's engine, in addition to touching the power unit.
Some modifications that postponed him to the bottom of the starting grid no matter what he did in qualifying.
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Today Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and, of course, Max Verstappen could do it;
current champion and current leader of the World Championship, who yesterday won his 15th pole position, the second this season after Emilia-Romagna in a qualifying phase that was nothing short of spectacular.
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A possible impact point that became famous in 1999 when, in the same race, Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill and Jacques Villenueve (all world champions) crashed.
That was the beginning of a legend that, in different Grand Prix, was continued by Jenson Button or Sebastian Vettel.
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On the Recta del Casino we will see the DRS on the rear wing in all its splendor until we reach the chicane, which also serves as the entrance to the pits.
At the exit of this chicane and already on the finish straight, the drivers will have to deal with overcoming the outer wall: the famous “Wall of Champions”.
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From there, the race enters a succession of curves, more or less, fast and intertwined, until we reach the hairpin (turn 10), a place where spectacular exteriors have been seen, but where it is very important drive well to face the Casino straight that welcomes the last sector.
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Pit Lane opens.
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Installed on the Island of Notre Dame, the Montreal layout has several characteristic points.
The first of them is that curve 1-2, which has always been a point of friction in the starts of this Grand Prix given its short finish straight and where it is very easy to see the single-seaters going straight.
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One above all;
the one held in 2011: the longest Grand Prix in the history of Formula 1 (4 hours 4 minutes and 39 seconds to see Jenson Button win).
Although we also have in our minds the one from 2008 when Robert Kubica suffered that spectacular accident at the entrance of the hairpin.
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Track conditions change
: The asphalt is dry and in perfect condition.
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Canada returns to our lives after three years of absence, being one of the scenarios affected by the pandemic.
A fast, aerodynamic and spectacular track that, in recent years, has been the closed preserve of Mercedes AMG F1 but where we have seen races that have shed light on the World Championship.
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New Weather Forecast
: The forecasts do not foresee rain during the test.
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Hello, very good afternoon to all lovers of the motor world and welcome to the Canadian Grand Prix that takes place at the Gilles Villenueve semi-urban circuit in Montreal.
Next, we will offer live the ninth test of the 2022 season. A parenthesis in North America before entering the busy European summer.
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