Canada - Sprint Qualifying
Following Kimi Antonelli's Miami win, Formula One stayed within North America. What changed was the country: instead of taking place in the United States, the sport appeared in Canada, on the circuit named after the legendary Gilles Villeneuve. Once again, the weekend included a sprint, so its first big event began on Friday afternoon. Not all drivers were seen on track during SQ1. Neither Alex Albon nor Liam Lawson set any times, taking up two out of the six elimination-granting positions. On the other side of the spectrum, not for the first time this season, Antonelli set the quickest early time of all, but could not improve on his effort, as with a little less than two minutes left on the clock, Fernando Alonso's lock-up put his Aston Martin in the wall, bringing out a red flag that altered the course of the session. Interestingly, he had set a time good enough to make it through to SQ2. In the end, Sergio Perez, Lance Stroll, Pierre Gasly, and Valtteri Bottas ended their d...