Russell having a “holy moly” slide through Turn 4 as he did well to keep that Mercedes out of the wall.
as Leclerc and Carlos Sainz dropped out in Q2 after failing to make the cut on their final runs with used soft tyres.
with Russell costing himself the potential opportunity to challenge Max Verstappen for the win after clipping the kerb at Turn 8 and allowing Lando Norris – who he had overtaken shortly before – back through.
with CEO Peter Bayer having confirmed that the team are “very happy” with the pairing of Ricciardo and Tsunoda.
“And it does rain it’s one of those races that if you stop for for the intermediate tyres one lap too late or one lap too soon your race is over so you have to time it perfectly.
but the true test would come at the final moments as the rain continued to steer clear of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
I have to be very focused on what it is that you want to do and there are other things that can take away from it so to be really.
but we still need to keep pushing on and try and bring more upgrades and things like that.