who mastered the tricky FP2 conditions.a poor 10-race spell for Nyck de Vries at Red Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri opened the door for Ricciardo to return to the grid in his place.to do that [run Doohan] early is a good thing.it was Carlos Sainz who inherited the fastest lap point with his 1:33.“It looked like on the hard tyres he got there towards the end and suddenly last two laps.It marked Mercedes’ best qualifying showing of this season with the team having slowly made inroads on their deficit to the frontrunners.“I was starting to take some risks because I could see that in the dry we were a little bit more competitive and there was the chance for points if I took some risks and overtook some cars in DRS trains.

so Red Bull are a little bit one-legged at the moment if they want to defend.Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin revealed “Lewis said” the team should “let George run it”.“And he needs to find his confidence again.looked to use that advantage on the following lap after Piastri fell out of DRS range of his McLaren team-mate.Analysis: 2024 Canadian Grand Prix👉 Canadian GP conclusions: Villeneuve v Ricciardo and Russells new nickname👉 Canadian GP driver ratings: Record low score for Sergio Perez horror show“A large group of spectators managed to break the security lines and accessed the track in several areas while the race was finishing and cars were still on track.Fernando Alonso qualified ahead of Lance Stroll 19 times out of 22.“When you’re racing with one of the greats.