Canadian Grand Prix

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.

The Red Bull ace held off Carlos Sainz while Lewis Hamilton got his McLaren back on the podium.

There was no drama as the safety car peeled away but Sainz was keeping Verstappen honest, closing to within a second and pushing for an overtake in the closing stages. Sainz stayed out to take the lead and was able to pit under a safety car on lap 49 after Yuki Tsunoda crashed out in the AlphaTauri, getting right onto the gearbox of Verstappen at the restart. The sell-out crowd on Ile Notre-Dame was treated to a rare example of a Hamilton and Verstappen battle, with last year’s title protagonists neck and neck as the Dutchman left the pits. An early virtual safety car for the retirement of the sister Red Bull of Sergio Perez, seemingly with an engine issue, allowed a spate of pit stops with Verstappen and Hamilton among those to put on fresh tyres. Verstappen cantered off the line and into the first corner well ahead of Alonso, who had impressed in qualifying to take his first front-row start in a decade. Sainz was fast in the closing stages following a period behind the safety car but could not find a way past Verstappen and had to settle for second place, the pair joined on the podium by Lewis Hamilton – the seven-time world champion taking third for Mercedes.

Max Verstappen will be leading from lights out this evening, after setting the fastest lap during a challenging qualifying session in Canada.

Lewis Hamilton will take fourth on the grid in the Mercedes, and said "P4 never felt so good" amid ongoing issues with his car. Fernando Alonso is in second after the Spaniard secured his first front-row start in a decade. Carlos Sainz will be chasing the two-time world champion from third in the lead Ferrari, while his teammate Charles Leclerc will take off from the back of the grid after being handed a penalty for switching to a new power unit this weekend.

Max Verstappen claimed his fifth win in the last six races at the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix, withstanding a late onslaught from Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, ...

What will the 2022 British Grand Prix serve up, as the drivers get set to tackle the fast, flowing track in Formula 1’s new breed of machines. F1 is back in two weeks’ time, as we head to British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the venue that hosted the very first Grand Prix 72 years ago. After starting fifth, Magnussen had been unable to recover from that early pit stop that ruined Haas’s chance of taking points – the team having now not done so since Imola. So, yeah, the last few laps were a lot of fun!” Fernando Alonso told the media after his fantastic P2 in qualifying yesterday that he wanted to lead the opening lap of the race. Sainz had scented blood, though, and lap after lap he parried against his former Toro Rosso team mate. Green-flag racing got under way again on Lap 55, Verstappen having weaved all the way down the back straight right up until Turn 13 before bolting away. Tsunoda was called into the pits on Lap 47. Verstappen, his lead having been trimmed to around 6s over Sainz, was sounding edgy about his rubber. Behind, an exciting battle was brewing between Stroll, Zhou, Tsunoda and the recovering Ricciardo scrapping over P9. Tyre degradation was now the buzzword. A perfect day for racing, in short.

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.

Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Sunday 19 June. Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, and Team Principal Andreas Seidl after the ...

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 put in another impressive performance to claim victory in the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix, further strenghening his spot at the top of the ...

That it did, but unsurprisingly the world champion was able to keep his cool, as Verstappen went on to secure his sixth win of the season. Meanwhile Verstappen's 2021 rival Lewis Hamilton began to make his move, after beginning the race in fourth. Whilst all was going well for Verstappen early on, the same could not be said for his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez, who was forced to pull out after just nine laps due to a technical fault.

Team by team analysis of Sunday's Canadian Formula One Grand Prix at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, ninth race of the 22 round season.

Magnussen's race was compromised by the collision with Hamilton and having to pit for a new front wing. Gasly pitted on lap five but his car was lacking grip and sliding around. Ocon started seventh and helped Alonso stay ahead of Bottas with an aerodynamic tow in the final laps. Alonso started alongside Verstappen, his first front row since 2012 when he was at Ferrari, and finished seventh before a five second penalty for weaving while defending against Bottas demoted the Spaniard to ninth. It was the first time since March he finished ahead of Russell, who started eighth. Sainz led after Verstappen pitted in the first virtual safety car (VSC) period on lap nine.

DRIVERS 1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 2 – Carlos SAINZ (Ferrari)3 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes) TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Jenson Button)

Like when I would wake up and go to school, he would bring me to school and then he would go to the workshop and continue his work. So, I was just fighting that constantly and it was very difficult to keep it out the wall. And it's so nice to see, it’s not always been the case I've had with this car so it's nice to have a bit of a good battle with her today, her or him, whatever you call a car. I always enjoyed coming here to Montreal, but we never really had a competitive package around here because we were always a bit slow on the straight. Because I knew what even in Sector One, if I would have made a tiny mistake, Carlos would gain a tenth on me, and that might have been enough to then get closer in the first DRS zone, and then in the second you know… I was risking everything, you know, over the kerbs, close to the wall and having a few moments out there in the dirty air. At the time, with still 20-something laps to go, the hard was definitely the fastest option to the to the flag, especially knowing that it was a bit of a fresher Hard to Max. It's a shame. CS: Yeah, it was a tough, intense battle with Max. I knew I had a bit of pace delta on him from the whole race and I think it was five, six laps fresher [on] tyres, but I think to overtake around here you need to be more than those two or three tenths, you know. It swings a bit, like last weekend it looked good in the race, now it didn't look as good but we still managed to win and that I think is also a quality and we just have to work together with the whole team you know to try and just find little improvements in the car. MV: It’s still a very long way and I know the gap of course is quite big, but I also know that it can switch around very quickly. MV: I mean, not a go in terms of overtaking, but it was super close all the time. It looked like the hairpin, one lap to the end, you got really close and went a little bit deep.

Follow live updates and see the highlights from the 2022 F1 Canadian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen still leads the way in the drivers' world championship ...

June 19 June 19 June 19 June 19 You can also stream Formula 1 races live in the U.S. with fuboTV, which offers a free trial. Sainz hasn't managed to pull away though and as a result, Verstappen has already pulled a three second gap at the front.

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.

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…

Hamilton then managed to bring his car home in third in Sunday's race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for only his second podium finish of 2022 so far and his ...

"It's been such a difficult year for me personally in terms of the car. We were having it really low on the ground and clearly that doesn't function. "I think we have development direction.

LEWIS HAMILTON secured his second podium of the season at the Canadian Grand Prix. · Mercedes: What's gone wrong at the F1 and can they recover? · Related ...

However, he said the Mercedes’ race pace was “closer” to the leaders than at many other tracks this season. “So I think we need to be careful. The Austrian claimed a lot of work still needs to be done before the team can get back to the front.