Verstappen, Alonso and Hamilton take the podium at the Canadian Grand Prix

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The Canadian GP had us on our toes, which was a nice turn of events after a less intense start to the season... 

After a group of drivers got hit with starting grid penalties following a qualifying full of impeding, we saw this starting 10: Verstappen, Alonso, Hamilton, Russell, Hulkenberg, Ocon, Norris, Piastri, Albon and Leclerc. In 11th and 12th, Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and Red Bull's Sergio Perez respectively. 

Lewis Hamilton took 2nd almost immediately after the lights went out. Ocon moves up into 5th and Magnussen quickly hits the wall, then having to regain position on the track.  

Red Bull's Max Verstappen hit a bird on lap 11... and it stayed put the whole race. My hats off to the mechanic that cleaned that up. 

Aston Martin's Lance Stroll, the only Canadian on this year's grid, finished P9, gaining himself two more points in the drivers championship. 

The two DRS zones on this tight track, the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve proved to be beneficial for Lando Norris, who would've ended the race in the front half, but suffered a 5 second penalty after showing "unsportsmanlike behavior" under a virtual safety car. 

photo courtesy of F1 
Earlier in the week, Formula 1 predicted about an 80% likeliness of a safety car coming out on this track, and we did see one following George Russell's hit to the wall on lap 12, which is when the FIA found Norris to be going too slowly, landing him that penalty and P13.  

Russell immediately apologized to his team over the radio... but was able to rejoin the race. 

Making his way through the Albon train midfield, Russell was sporting P8, but come later in the race and the Mercedes driver realizes and communicates that his engine has taken too much damage from the earlier crash. He's out. 

Charles started out with the fastest lap and then the stat bounced between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton until Sergio Perez changed to a soft tyre on the second to last lap and grabbed that extra one point in the championship. 

This win for Max Verstappen also marks 100 wins for the Red Bull constructors and pushes them upward in the points championship as much as 154 points ahead of every other team. 

photo by Randi May

The Austrian GP is coming up on June 2 and we're looking forward to feeding you with even more content before that week. 

A Formula Frenzy podcast and YouTube channel will be hitting you soon....... stay tuned. 





written by: Randi May 

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