Mercedes Antonelli was fastest in FP1 from his team mate, with those two comfortably ahead of the rest. Russell did get a lucky break late on in practice, as he spun out of Turn 1 and managed to scrub enough speed to kiss the barriers and emerge with an undamaged car. He will be hoping that luck holds for the rest of the weekend. Mercedes looked to have more of a fight on their hands in Sprint Qualifying, with the field closing up and Hamilton in particular taking the battle right to his former team. But in the end Russell was the one to grab pole by 0.068s from his team mate. The upgrade package did its job, keeping them ahead of the chasing pack. Kimi Antonelli, 2nd, 1:13.033 "My Sprint Qualifying session wasn't particularly clean. I made a mistake in SQ2 and ran through the grass; that threw me off a little bit. In SQ3, I decided not to do a prep lap, and the tyres were a little cold on my first effort. My second lap was faster, but it still wasn't great. P2 is still a solid result though and I am sure we will make a better go of it tomorrow. "We've brought a sizeable update here and we need to understand more about it. It's clearly got good potential, and we've seen some of that already. It's given us an edge here today in Montreal but I'm sure the rest of the weekend will be very competitive with several other teams in the mix. Let's see what we can do in tomorrow's Sprint and go from there." George Russell, 1st, 1:12.965 "We're pleased to get pole for tomorrow's Sprint, but we know it's only a very small part of this weekend's job. We've brought a