F1 Canadian GP qualifying - Start time, how to watch & more

The reigning F1 world champion dominated the practice timesheets on Friday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, leading in both practice sessions, with a best time of 1m14.127s in FP2.

Despite taking second place in second practice, Charles Leclerc goes into this weekend with an uphill fight due to a 10-place grid penalty after Ferrari gave him a fresh control electronics element on his power unit following his engine blowout at the last race in Azerbaijan.

Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz will therefore be looking to take the fight to Verstappen for Ferrari in qualifying, having finished third fastest in FP2, while Sergio Perez struggled for pace and ended the session down in 11th place.

Sebastian Vettel impressed for Aston Martin in fourth place, ahead of Alpine’s Fernando Alonso and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly, as Mercedes’ woes continued with its temperamental F1 car.

George Russell claimed seventh place in FP2 but team-mate Lewis Hamilton struggled again as he ended the session in 13th place and called the team’s set-up experiments a “disaster”.

Qualifying for the Canadian GP starts at 4pm local time (9pm BST), using the regular Q1, Q2 and Q3 knockout session format.

Date: Saturday 18th June 2022

Start time: 4pm local time – 9pm BST

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB18, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W13

Photo by: Patrick Vinet / Sutton images

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