George Russell says his pole position at the Canadian Grand Prix confirms recent progress from Mercedes, and came with help from Lewis Hamilton’s data. The two Mercedes drivers were quick in FP3 with Hamilton comfortably leading the way, but it was Russell who took pole position setting an identical 1m12.000s lap time to Max Verstappen but posting the time first. Hamilton ended up seventh on the grid — just 0.28s off pole — and Russell says it was learning from his teammate after final practice that helped secure his result. “To be honest, this weekend's been really challenging to know [about the pecking order] because of the conditions yesterday,” Russell said. “You've...
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