Sebastian Vettel in pole position in Montreal

With a new absolute record for the Gilles Villeneuve route in Montreal, achieved in 1'10 "764, Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) takes pole position for the 2018 Canadian Grand Prix, his 54th career victory.

The four-time world champion had already taken the advantage during the first attempts in Q3, but improved on his second timed lap, finally beating Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) of 93 thousandths.

Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), guilty of an error at the hairpin, will start on the second row in front of Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari), who was forced to abort his second attempt, after a slight passage off-trajectory, and Daniel Ricciardo (Redbull).

Note that both the Mercedes drivers and the Ferrari drivers will start on a different tire strategy compared to the Red Bulls, since Hamilton, Bottas, Vettel and Räikkönen achieved their best time in Q2 on ultra-soft tires.

In the wake of the Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull single-seaters, the single-seaters of Renault Sport F1 Team and Force India place themselves as the best of the others. Nico Hulkenberg takes the group of four single-seaters in front Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Pérez.

gasly et Grosjean remain in Q1

Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Brendon Hartley (Toro Rosso), Charles Leclerc (Sauber) and the McLaren de Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne follow in the standings after being eliminated in Q2.

Pierre Gasly (Toro Rosso), returned to the old specification of the Honda engine on his STR13, after a problem detected in FP3, Lance stroll and Sergey Sirotkin (Williams), Marcus Ericsson (Sauber), who came into contact with the wall at turn n°9, was however unable to cross the threshold of Q1 during these qualifications.

Even less success for Romain Grosjean (Haas), whose car released a large plume of smoke just after leaving his box, forcing the Frenchman to dismount even before his exit turn.

 GREEN LIGHT

Q1 is going to Montreal…

And it looks like it's already over for Romain Grosjean #CanadianGP  #F1 pic.twitter.com/t7RbaDWUeV

- Formula 1 (@ F1) June 9, 2018

A first alert had been detected by Haas earlier in the weekend, but as confirmed by Romain Grosjean on Canal +. The former Lotus driver's bad luck continues this weekend, he who had hit a marmot yesterday during the first Canadian day.

That's a wrap for Qualifying!

Barely anything to choose between the top three teams

But Sebastian Vettel claims pole number 54 #CanadianGP  #F1 pic.twitter.com/W84Tcv8xwB

- Formula 1 (@ F1) 9th June 2018

Qualification ranking

The Canadian Grand Prix will be followed live tomorrow from 20:10 p.m., via our live text.