Starsports report
MONTREAL: Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position with a scintillating Canadian Grand Prix qualifying performance yesterday.
The world championship leader took his first ever pole in Montreal last year and he was even more impressive this time around, clocking a time over six-tenths of a second faster than that of his nearest rival.
It took some last-gasp dramatics though. Hamilton pulled out all the stops on his final lap to push BMW’s Pole Robert Kubica back into second place.
In bright sunshine and poor track conditions, Kubica just could not quite do enough to deny the 23-year-old Briton his eighth career pole position and his second this season.
Hamilton won from the front in Canada last year and after his electric final qualifying lap of 1:17.886, he will be confident of a repeat come today’s race on the tricky, high-speed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Fernando Alonso will start third on the grid for Renault and will be joined on the second row by Ferrari’s Finnish world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Nico Rosberg achieved an excellent fifth for Williams with Brazilian Felipe Massa having to settle for sixth in the second Ferrari.Read more
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