Hamilton on the podium, great Verstappen, absolutely tragic McLaren: What are the final results of the Canadian GP?

Formula 1 has already had its ninth race of the season. Max Verstappen in the Red Bull recorded his sixth win of the year, expertly holding on to first place! The podium belongs to Mercedes, solid results were recorded by Alpine and Alfa Romeo, and the McLaren stable had an absolutely terrible race.

The best qualifying position in a decade – Fernando Alonso qualified second for Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix and boldly declared at the press conference that he would attack Max Verstappen’s first place at the first corner.

However, that didn’t work out, Alonso didn’t get off to a very good start and almost lost his second position at the first corner. Carlos Sainz, starting from third place, wanted to take advantage of his slow start, but it’s not far to the first corner in Canada, so Alonso held on to second place.

The big surprise was the starting positions of the Haas monoposts – Kevin Magnussen was fifth in the qualifying results, Mick Schumacher sixth. But after a few laps they lost their positions.

There were hardly any dramatic moments after all five lights went out, apart from a very close battle between Magnussen and Lewis Hamilton at turns three and four.

And it was the Danish driver who took the brunt of this battle, suffering damage to the front wing of his car, forcing him to stop by his mechanics a few laps later.

For Red Bull fans, the ninth round of the Canadian Grand Prix offered a heart attack moment as Sergio Pérez had to retire his car due to a damaged gearbox.

Naturally, yellow flags were waved on the circuit and race directors activated a virtual safety car. Fans witnessed the same event after another ten laps, when Mick Schumacher had to end his Canadian Grand Prix run prematurely.

It should be noted, Schumacher had his race off to a great start, unfortunately his technique betrayed him becoming the second driver not to see the finish line.

On lap 20 of the Canadian Grand Prix, a big mistake was made by the McLaren team. The British team decided to make a “double pit-stop”, when both of its drivers pitted. But the mechanics didn’t have the tyres ready for Lando Norris and he lost not only valuable time, but also many positions.

He came out of the pits in seventeenth place. Alonso was gradually falling down the order, so the Spanish driver pitted for the hardest tyres on lap 29.

Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari did a very good job during the race, changing the power unit and starting from nineteenth place due to a penalty. However, after the thirtieth lap he was already in sixth place.

The third yellow flag came on lap 49, when Juki Cunoda in the AlphaTauri crashed on the pit exit due to a driver error.

The race management then called the safety car to the track, which was used by a number of drivers. Ferrari probably benefited the most from the accident, as Sainz went to his mechanics for more hard tyres.

The safety car didn’t pull back into the pits until the end of lap 54. Sainz didn’t lose his second place and he had fresher tyres than Verstappen, with whom he had a tough battle for the win in the last 10 laps.

However, the top two positions remained unchanged until the end of the Canadian Grand Prix, with Verstappen managing to take the end of the race with ease and claim his sixth win of the season!

He was then joined on the podium by Sainz and Hamilton. The seven-time world champion took his first podium finish of the season, with Russell crossing the line in fourth to extend his streak of top-five finishes. In fact, the talented British driver has never finished worse than fifth in any race.

Amazing damage limitation was recorded by Leclerc, who gained fourteen places from his starting position and finished the Canadian Grand Prix in fifth place!

Sixth and seventh places belong to both Alpine F1 drivers. Despite Alonso’s obvious disappointment after starting from second position, Alpine scores very important points in the Constructors’ Cup, with the legendary Spaniard eventually finishing seventh.

Eighth (Valtteri Bottas) and ninth (Guangyu Zhou) were taken by Alfa Romeo drivers, with Lance Stroll in the Aston Martin rounding out the elite ten.

The Canadian driver, who was still driving his home Grand Prix, overtook tenth-placed Daniel Ricciardo in the McLaren in the final laps of the race. The British stable from Woking had a truly awful race, with its drivers finishing eleventh and fifteenth.

That left three drivers – Pérez (Red Bull), Schumacher (Haas) and Cunoda (AlphaTauri) – unable to finish the race.

Source: F1 TV