MOSCOW, June 9 British Mercedes pilot George Russell and the Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen finished with the same qualifying time at the ninth round of the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, which takes place at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.
Both riders showed the result – 1 minute 12,000 seconds. The last time something like this happened was in 1997, then at the European Grand Prix in Jerez (Spain) three drivers showed the same best time – Jacques Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
Russell starts from pole position in Sunday's race, having set the best result first. Third place in qualifying went to Briton Lando Norris from McLaren (+0.021).
The full top ten of qualifying looks like this: 1. Russell, 2. Verstappen, 3. Norris, 4. Oscar Piastri (Australia, McLaren, +0.103), 5. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia, RB, +0.178), 6. Fernando Alonso (Spain, Aston Martin, +0.228), 7. Lewis Hamilton (UK, Mercedes) , +0.280) 8. Yuki Tsunoda (Japan, RB, +0.414), 9. Lance Stroll (Canada, Aston Martin, +0.701), 10. Alexander Albon (Thailand, Williams, +0.796).
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