F1: Red Bull's Max Verstappen has claimed a wet and wild Canadian Grand Prix, as Australian Daniel Ricciardo was in the points after a rare false start.
Verstappen too good at slick Canadian GP | 03:17The Canadian Grand Prix was a bad race for the championship but a good one for the series.
There’s the ongoing issue of the car’s ride quality. At tracks like this, where so much time is made up hopping over the kerbs, such a weakness can be debilitating. “We need both cars scoring, so we got away with it today, but we need Checo back up there where he was at the beginning of the year from Barcelona onwards.”
Unfortunately the safety car — to clean up after the crashed-out Logan Sargeant — was deployed just as Norris hit the brakes for the final chicane. Team boss Andrea Stella admitted that more could have been on the table but saw the race more positively. It was a high-pressure weekend for the Aussie. He was blasted on television by 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve as being washed up, and a day later RB took up the option on teammate Yuki Tsunoda’s contract, leaving him in the firing line for a potential Liam Lawson elevation.
“The stewards acknowledge that the movement was very slight and no significant sporting advantage was gained and therefore impose the least severe penalty applicable to such infringement.” Eighth on the road — behind only cars of the five frontrunning teams, all of which had more straightforward races than the Aussie — ended up being a strong result.
Hamilton counted himself out of the race in qualifying, when he slumped to seventh, and though he showed he had the pace to contend for victory, he’d left himself with too much work to do to shoot for the podium, including with an off-track moment.“Bits of good speed at some points but ultimately a really poor weekend for myself. Qualifying put me back there, and then I was stuck behind Fernando for a long, long time, as you would expect, and after that I lost a lot of ground and went off.
It’s hard to say for certain given he’s had so few chances to compete at the front with Mercedes, but his list of missed chances continues to grow. A dire qualifying result left it fighting up hill, but even from 11th Leclerc said he was targeting a podium finish. With Verstappen and Red Bull Racing inflicting big damage on both title tables, Leclerc called for calm ahead of the upcoming European triple-header in two weeks time.
The good news: the beleaguered French squad scored a valuable three points to move ahead of Williams and into eighth on the constructors championship table.Esteban Ocon was running ninth — in a great race up from 18th — ahead of a similarly strong Pierre Gasly in 10th in the final laps.At first he resisted. Then he asked for assurance he’d be given the place back if Gasly couldn’t make the pass on the RB. The promise wasn’t forthcoming, but he eventually relented.
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