Canadian Grand Prix

Max Verstappen won a pulsating Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal on Sunday, after a tense duel to the finish line with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.

Sainz led by 10s with 25 laps to go. Haas then lost its second car from the points when Mick Schumacher pulled off at Lap 19 in the same spot as Perez, causing another VSC that Russell pitted under. On fresh hards, Hamilton passed Ocon for fifth. Hamilton also stopped, giving up spots to Russell and Esteban Ocon (Alpine) as he rejoined in sixth. He pitted from sixth at the end of Lap 8 for a new front wing. 1

The Red Bull driver has moved 46 points clear in the drivers championship as Carlos Sainz came close second and Hamilton rounded off the podium.

He took his second stop on lap 44 and Sainz now led with Ferrari looking to pull off a one-stop, with a nine-second lead to Verstappen. It left a sprint to the finish between the two on similar rubber. Pit stops ensued after an early virtual safety car when Sergio Pérez pulled off track after a gearbox problem on lap nine, with Verstappen and Hamilton stopping but Ferrari leaving Sainz out to inherit the lead. Yet it was Verstappen who had shown the field how hard it will be to catch him this season. The seven-time champion’s broad smile and pleasure in having a decent ride beneath him was palpable, clearly reinvigorated by genuinely feeling he was part of the fight. Max Verstappen had long promised that given the tools he was more than capable of delivering a world championship.

Dutchman Verstappen maintains his lead in the Formula One championship after controlling the race from pole position.

Magnussen damaged his front wing on the opening lap racing Hamilton for position and had to make an early stop for repairs; he finished 17th. It was Verstappen's best finish in Montreal, which F1 said hosted a record 338,000 spectators over the three-day weekend as the series returned to Canada after a two-year pause during the pandemic. “It's good, I'm back to being young,” said the 37-year-old. “The potential is truly there if we can get the setup right and I think that's been the most difficult thing this year.” “It's still a very long way to go and I know the gap of course is quite big, but I also know that can switch around very quickly,” Verstappen said of his points lead. For the first time this season I can say I was fastest man on track, which gives me confidence and some hope for the next races.”

Verstappen has further extended his championship lead after he narrowly edged out Ferrari's Carlos Sainz in a thrilling final lap battle. Sainz was less than ...

Daniel Ricciardo settled into the middle of the field in the early laps after he had a mini-win in qualifying, making Q3 and finishing ahead of his McLaren teammate Norris for the second time this season. The drama continued with a series of cruel DNFs in the early laps as the leaderboard went berserk with changes at the front of the field. The reigning world champion started from pole position after he was six-tenths of a second faster than the rest of the field in qualifying.

Max Verstappen held off Carlos Sainz in a thrilling battle to claim the first Canadian GP victory of his career in an action-packed race in Montreal.

With Verstappen closing, Sainz was desperate for another opportunity to change his tyres, and it came as Yuki Tsunoda crashed at Turn 2, this time bringing out a full Safety Car as he struck the barrier. After a two-week break, the 2022 season returns for a summer run of European races, starting with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone from July 1-3. "I wasn't leaving any inches to the walls, the braking and I was pushing everything with the battery. Leclerc paid a particularly high price as a slow stop saw him come out behind a DRS train of midfield cars, all but ending his hopes of catching the Mercedes cars. "It was really exciting at the end," Verstappen said. "I was giving it everything I had and, of course, Carlos was doing the same.

A combination of a wet qualifying session and Charles Leclerc's engine woes saw the usual pecking order change, with the Ferrari driver starting from the back ...

George's way just happened to be a lot better, so the car didn't feel that great through the session, so I think tomorrow it should be in a much better position." "So hopefully I can try to hold position at least." "I think we learned quite a lot on the long run, which is positive for tomorrow," Leclerc said. "P3 is still a good position to start and we can get to the top. "Hopefully I am able to recover and get into strong points," Perez said after qualifying. After four successive pole positions before this weekend failed to yield any victories, he will hope starting from the other end of the grid can bring him some much-needed fortune.

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We have to acknowledge our competitors did a better job and therefore we didn't deserve points today. My thanks to our team here at the track, back in the factory and our colleagues at HPP for their efforts over the whole of this long-haul double-header. "We were unlucky today in many places, and also just didn’t have the pace to race and overtake the people we wanted to race against. We simply didn’t have the pace, and then had to manage a few other things as well. So, otherwise, we’ve got to have a look, see where we can go better, and then just clean a few things up." There were mistakes from my side, mistakes from the team’s behalf and we’ll just need to step back, refresh, go again and do a much better job in the next one."

Max Verstappen's title defence gathered more speed in Montreal as the Red Bull driver clinched a fifth win in six races – but F1's return to Canada for the ...

But while he lost 15 points to title rival Verstappen, seeing the chequered flag after his Baku retirement was important. Alonso was visibly despondent after the race, having failed to convert his best grid slot in a decade into a podium. Around 338,000 people attended over the course of the weekend. Fifth place from 19th on the grid would be a solid recovery for most drivers, but Charles Leclerc was left wanting more. Schumacher was in good shape for points before a power unit issue forced a DNF. That’s now five races without points for Haas. We’ve picked out six winners and five losers from the Canadian Grand Prix…

Max Verstappen has extended his Formula 1 world championship lead with victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, while his main rivals struggled.

To review all the action on and off track in Montreal, host Martyn Lee is joined by Luke Smith, Jess McFadyen and Matt Kew to discuss whether Ferrari had any chance of ending Red Bull’s winning streak and could Sainz have made a one-stop strategy work? The race was punctuated by two virtual safety car periods – one for Perez’s stoppage and another for Mick Schumacher who also failed to finish with a mechanical problem – and a full safety car when Yuki Tsunoda crashed at Turn 2 exiting the pitlane. Charles Leclerc was forced to fight back from a grid penalty due to a Ferrari engine change after his retirement in the Azerbaijan GP and finished fifth in Canada, while Verstappen’s Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez crashed in qualifying and then suffered his own mechanical heartache in the race.

As Max Verstappen delivered a Canadian Grand Prix masterclass, Ferrari showed some fight through Carlos Sainz, while the porpoising saga spiced up off the ...

A remarkable stat doing the rounds was that Fernando Alonso’s romp to the second-fastest time in qualifying marked his first front-row start of the hybrid era. That could mean moving the car out of an ideal set-up window - and that could mean sacrificing lap time to ensure compliance with the rules and guaranteeing that drivers are not suffering the ill-effects of porpoising. A lack of mileage in testing and brake duct issues were followed by uninspiring McLaren performances in the first two rounds of the campaign. As per Barcelona, claims that this was a display of pace that on another day would be capable of winning a race appear somewhat wide of the mark. Hamilton was shod in hard tyres that were one-lap younger than those worn by Verstappen for the post-safety car sprint to the flag. It stemmed the loss on a day when Leclerc was hampered by the DRS train and a difficult differential that was costing him dearly out of Turn 10 for the crucial drag into the final chicane. The word is Mercedes has finally “solved” its porpoising issue, but it is still afflicted by another kind of bouncing as the car runs low and stiff to pound into the asphalt. Namely, as Mercedes has struggled to unlock its W13 creation, it has been the 37-year-old who has made do with experimental, pace-sapping set-ups in a bid to learn what makes the car tick. With five minutes of Q2 to play, Carlos Sainz turned in a 1m29.153s to bolt to the top of the times. Those chances were then wiped out by the engine failure for Leclerc. Matters were closer in Montreal. Sainz had the pace on Verstappen for the final hard-tyre sprint to the flag as he turned in fastest laps and had the advantage through the speed traps. And although a win went begging again, he made it a close-run affair with Verstappen, having capitalised on the safety car to pit for hards. Similarly, the Red Bull boss reckons that had a safety car not intervened to instead leave Carlos Sainz running in front on a one-stop strategy, Verstappen again had enough to come from behind and win.

Plenty of high scores but just a single perfect 10 from the first Montreal race in three years, as Max Verstappen fended off late pressure from Carlos Sainz ...

Whether Leclerc would have been able to repel the Red Bull driver's charge on much older tyres is a question we'll never know the answer to. Charles Leclerc's second engine problem in three races meant Max Verstappen had a free run to claim his fifth win of the 2022 Formula 1 season. On paper the Canadian Grand Prix will go down as Max Verstappen’s latest triumph, fending off late pressure from Carlos Sainz to extend his Formula 1 world championship lead.