Racing Point's Lance Stroll scores historic pole at wet Turkish Grand Prix

Lance Stroll will start the Turkish Grand Prix from pole position for Racing Point, edging out Red Bull's Max Verstappen and his teammate Sergio Perez as concerns over conditions at Istanbul Park continued.

Stroll was the first Canadian to take pole since Jacques Villeneuve at the 1997 European Grand Prix at Jerez.

Australian Daniel Ricciardo will start from the third row after qualifying fifth and will start next to Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton who qualified sixth. It was the first time since the 2013 Italian Grand Prix where Mercedes did not have either car in the top five with Valtteri Bottas starting from ninth on the grid.

It was Racing Point team's first pole since the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix.

"Yes, Yes, Yes boys," Stroll screamed on the team radio.

"I can't really put it into words," he added.

"I'm shocked. I didn't expect to be up here after FP3.

"There were a lot of things we weren't sure about coming into qualifying. We didn't look that competitive in Q3."

Hamilton can seal a record-equalling seventh drivers' world title if he prevents Bottas from outscoring him by eight points.

The Q1 session was interrupted twice for red flags, when Race Control declared the track was unsafe.

Ricciardo told Sky Sports he was just happy to have made it through in such treacherous conditions.

"Probably the best way to describe it, I did a driving course on a skid pan and it kicks you out and it never bites, there's never any grip and honestly that's what it felt like today," he said.

"For viewers, they win, for us drivers, it's tricky," he continued. "Especially this morning, when you seen drivers lose the car in sixth gear on the straight, we're passengers. We're literally eyes wide open holding on hoping that it keeps going straight."

Ricciardo added qualifying "it's taken a few years off our lives" but admitted it was good to see the starting order mixed up.

It was the first time this season one of the Mercedes cars wasn't on pole position.

TURKISH GRAND PRIX STARTING GRID

Row 1: Lance Stroll (Racing Point), Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

Row 2: Sergio Perez (Racing Point), Alex Albon (Red Bull)

Row 3: Daniel Ricciardo (Renault), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

Row 4: Esteban Ocon (Renault), Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo)

Row 5: Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes), Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo)

Row 6: Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

Row 7: Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), Kevin Magnussen (Haas)

Row 8: Carlos Sainz (McLaren), Lando Norris (McLaren)

Row 9: Daniil Kvyat (AlphaTauri), Romain Grosjean (Haas)

Row 10: Nicholas Latifi (Williams), George Russell (Williams)