Thank you for joining me, live from the track here in Montreal.

That was a brilliant session, and a great result for George Russell, who'll start on pole for tomorrow's race.

We will, of course, be back to do it all again with another live blog - so make sure you join us.

The race is due to begin at 2pm EST, or 7pm if you're in the UK. We'll be here an hour before that for all the build-up - see you then!

Fresh from the pen of our man in Montreal, here's Jonathan McEvoy's report from a brilliant afternoon of qualifying at the Canadian Grand Prix.

George Russell took an extraordinary pole position at the Canadian Grand Prix – tied on 1min 12.000sec with Max Verstappen.

The Brit takes the honour of leading the race off, having set his time first.

So, a breakthrough for the beleaguered Mercedes team, and now the possibility of victory at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve tomorrow. ‘There’s no reason I can’t keep Max behind,’ declared a delighted Russell after stepping out of his car to huge cheers.

Read the full report below...

'I am super happy, first of all congrats to Mr Russell. He's been quick all weekend. But I'm happy with third. Third is a good job by us, I'm happy and excited for tomorrow.

'A lot of the time [in Montreal] you think you're going to crash.

'Two overtakes tomorrow? Easy - light work. I'm exciting to see what we can do. Two very fast drivers ahead, plenty of fast drivers behind, we'll put on a good show tomorrow.'

Verstappen: 'It's how it is... overall, we still had a good qualifying. The whole weekend has been a bit tricky for us, but P2 - I'll take it. It makes it exciting for tomorrow.

'I felt good in Monaco but it wasn't our track. This weekend, again we didn't have a good build-up. Hopefully it will be very exciting tomorrow.'

Some words from the pole-sitter, George Russell:

'Ah, amazing. It feels so good, so much hard work back at the factory has gone into this. Hopefully this is the start of something for us this season, and I think it is.

'It's awesome here, such good energy from all the fans. First step done, but now we've got our eyes on that win.

'The car's been feeling amazing, since we brought some upgrades in Monaco.'

1: George Russell - 1:12.000

2: Max Verstappen - 1:12.000

3: Lando Norris - 1:12.021

4: Oscar Piastri - 1:12.103

5: Daniel Ricciardo - 1:12.178

6: Fernando Alonso - 1:12.228

7: Lewis Hamilton - 1:12.280

8: Yuki Tsunoda - 1:12.414

9: Lance Stroll - 1:12.701

10: Alex Albon - 1:12.796

That's the second time in Formula 1 history that we've had a dead heat for pole position in qualifying.

The last time - at Jerez in the 1997 European Grand Prix - Jacques Villeneuve, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Michael Schumacher all set exactly the same time.

...but Russell still reigns supreme right now.

Norris just went P2 and Piastri is P3, knocking Hamilton to P4, but it's still Russell atop the tree.

There's just two minutes to go.