Max Verstappen

After an impressive performance, Max Verstappen won the F1 Canadian GP, giving him a commanding lead in the driver's standings.

Neither Hamilton nor Mercedes are competitive in the standings at the moment but it's good to see both the team and Hamilton getting back on the right track. I tried everything to pass Max but the positive thing is we were quicker, we were faster in the race. As Max Verstappen crossed the finish line in Montreal, winning his first-ever F1 Canadian GP, he took some of the wind out of several rivals' sails.

Charles Leclerc left the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in defiant mood after Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix and insisted that he can overhaul Max Verstappen to ...

It’s like this sometimes, but I hope it will be different at the next race – reliability permitting!” “I mean,” he added. “There is still a very long way to go in the championship and the gap is, of course, quite big, but we have seen and we know it can switch around quite quickly,” said Verstappen, who struggled in the opening three races of the year before taking the initiative.

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"We limited the damage starting from the back [in Canada], and finishing fifth is still a good race result," Binotto said. "Well, we can see that obviously also Red Bull had a few problems today [on Sergio Perez's car], so yeah, definitely reliability is going to be a big thing. Leclerc has dropped 68 points to his main rival in the last four rounds, but asked if he was concerned by Verstappen's increasing championship lead, the Ferrari driver said: "It motivates me.

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Home hero Lance Stroll rounded out the top 10 for Aston Martin. Racing resumed with 16 laps remaining, Verstappen holding off the attacks of the fresher-tyred Sainz to claim his sixth victory of the season, and his 26th overall, as Sainz took his fifth podium of the year – although the Spaniard’s wait for his first victory continues. With Sainz second, Lewis Hamilton took his first podium finish since the opening round of the season, with the Mercedes driver finishing ahead of team-mate George Russell and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc who battle through to fifth place from 19th place on the grid.

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc looks motivated to turn the title deficit to the Red Bull driver Max Verstappen in Silverstone.

Hopefully, for his and Ferrari’s sake, they do not suffer from any more issues until the end of the season. “We can see that obviously also Red Bull had a few problems today, so yeah, definitely reliability is going to be a big thing. We will recover from this disadvantage, we will succeed.

After Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc insisted that he can overhaul Max Verstappen to win this year's world championship.

It’s like this sometimes, but I hope it will be different at the next race – reliability permitting!” “I mean,” he added. In the back of his mind, Verstappen may have recalled that he had a 32-point lead over seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes at a similar point in the title race last year when their battle went down to the final lap of the season.

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'The wind is a big factor, the bumpiness of a circuit. Just the angle of it didn't allow the team to hold the floor up. He will have been disappointed to finish behind the Finn, but he was delighted to finally deliver on the promise he has been showing as of late in the car. In Montreal, Zhou outqualified Bottas for the second race in a row and for long periods of the race was ahead of the man who has won 10 races in his career. He was comfortably beaten by his team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the opening races of the season, but in Baku and Canada he has closed the gap to his experienced team-mate. His performance was a reminder of his supreme speed, even at the age of 40, in a career where his machinery has struggled to match his raw ability. Norris had his joint-worst finish of the season in 15th, and also received a five-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane. He qualified in a respectable fourth before showing impressive pace during the race to achieve just his second podium finish of the season. There had been a point where Hamilton's place in the Canadian Grand Prix was under threat, after his bruising weekend in Baku as he struggled with the porpoising of his Mercedes. But if there was a track for Hamilton to find his form then it's the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve - where he won his first race in 2007, and has since won on another six occasions. His retirement from the lead in Baku proved to be a double hit, as it cost him a chance of contending for the Canadian Grand Prix here, because he started from the rear following a grid penalty brought on by his DNF last week. The Red Bull driver took his sixth victory of the season to open up a 46-point gap over his team-mate Sergio Perez in the drivers' standings, after the Mexican suffered a costly retirement due to a gearbox failure.

Max Verstappen cruised to his sixth Formula One win of the season by holding off a late challenge from Carlos Sainz Jr. and pulling away in a fairly easy ...

Bottas was followed by rookie teammate Zhou Guanyu, who was moved to eighth after the Alonso penalty and finished in the points for the second time this season. Regardless of the result, this weekend has been one to remember.” Estaban Ocon of Alpine finished sixth and teammate Alonso, who said he'd be pleased with a fifth-place finish, was seventh but penalized five-seconds after the race for weaving. It was Verstappen's first win 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. Magnussen damaged his front wing on the opening lap and finished 17th. “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. But there was no challenge and by the time Sainz cleared Alonso for second on Lap 2, Verstappen had already built a lead of 2.4 seconds. 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.” “It's good, I'm back to being young,” said the 37-year-old. “The (wind) tunnel has told us that the lower the car, the faster you go, the more ground effect it will have," Wolff said. “The potential is truly there if we can get the setup right and I think that's been the most difficult thing this year.” The bouncing has caused back pain and headaches for its drivers.