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MOTOR:Piastri loses ground as gloves are off at Mercedes

Oscar Piastri has lost more ground in the F1 championship race after finishing fourth in the Canadian Grand Prix sprint - but McLaren could take heart from an extraordinary bust-up between Mercedes' pacesetting drivers as George Russell celebrated victory.

In what turned out to be a great day for Englishman Russell, he later took pole position for Sunday's Grand Prix, pipping his young championship-leading colleague Kimi Antonelli, while Piastri again had to settle for fourth behind McLaren teammate Lando Norris, just as he had in the sprint.

The real drama of the day in Montreal, though, was that the gloves really looked to be off at Mercedes after 19-year-old Antonelli ended up raging about what he called a "naughty" move from Russell which he felt had shoved him off the track.

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