Max Verstappen came out on top in a five-car battle to win the Canadian Grand Prix. But when the Red Bull fan left Montreal after returning to victory lane, some were left wondering why. Lawrence Barretto picks the winners and losers.
Winner: Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen had another tough week. Now I’m back after missing track time on Friday due to electrical issues and the darkness. The car overcame hurdles and hurdles to win the second of four Grands Prix.
The defending champion matched George Russell’s qualifying time on Saturday and minimized his mistakes on Sunday. Although he lost to the Safety Car in Miami, he was the winner in Canada because he lost a lot of time and the lead to his rival Lando Norris.
It was Verstappen’s 60th win and 50th in the last 75 races. It was also his third win in Canada, and without Charles Leclerc scoring, the Dutchman almost tripled his lead in the drivers’ standings to 56 points.
Verstappen congratulated himself on his victory in Montreal.
No: Sergio Perez
Just days after signing his new contract, Sergio Perez suffered the franchise’s “unfortunate damage” (his words, not mine). For the second race weekend in a row, I was disqualified from Q1.
His afternoon was made even more difficult when his early collision with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly prevented him from advancing.
His night took a turn for the worse when he accidentally flipped over and broke his rear wing, forcing him to retire. To make matters worse, he dropped three places on the gridfor the next race in Spain after he was deemed to have returned to the pits with a “very damaged car”.
It was a bye race and Perez got the DNF.
Winner: Lando Norris
It’s been a bittersweet week for Lando Norris. The McLaren driver started third, missing pole position for the first time by 0.021 seconds.
The 24-year-old performed well on the medium tyres, coming two seconds faster than the rest of the team to take first position and the overall lead. The security vehicle will arrive.
Norris fought hard to finish second. He finished 1-2 (both configurations), fourth in five races with Verstappen. He is the only driverto have scored in every Grand Prix this season.
Absence: Yuki Tsunoda
Missing the line in this special category is uncharted territory for Yuki Tsunoda 2024. The Japanese rider arrived in Canada with four points to spare and five races completed.
Norris takes another podium in Canada.
And it was announced that RB paid off for his hard work by picking up the option to put him ahead of the playoffs and made his first appearance in the third quarter in Montreal. 2025 times.
He had a long run in the midfield and won 3 points, but lost points in the second half due to a wrong approach.
Winner: George Russell
George Russell bid for himself after starting from pole for the second time in his career after finishing third in Canada.
But when the dust settles, the Briton can look back on the weekend with plenty of pride as he and Mercedes secured their first podium of the season.
The Briton prevailed over his compatriot Lewis Hamilton and presented an improved Mercedes package, believing that the team is on course to finish fourth to be more. -He seems to be fighting with a sharp lead in theupcoming tournament.
Lose: Williams
The graduate career was very encouraging for Williams. Alex Albon qualified for Q3 in race two on the jump, while Logan Sargeant secured his best grid position of the season in 13th.
But they went to war on Sunday. Sargeant went off the track and fell to the back of the field in first, bringing out the safety car when he lost his rear end in the difficult conditions and crashed.
Albon was pushing hard for a point when he was rejected by the spinning Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, crashed into the wall and was eliminated from the race.
Champion: Aston Martin
This week was much clearer for Aston Martin,the green team that is well ahead of its rivals Ferrari.
Fernando Alonso overtook teammate Lance Stroll for the first time in four races, with Stroll setting his fastest time in race three in Australia to qualify for Q3 in the country for the first time.
With a good race, Alonso finished sixth in Canada.
On race day, both made good decisions in the terms. Alonso ended his two-race scoreless streak with a strong sixth, while Stroll moved up to seventh and scored a point in Canada for the fifth time in his career.
lose: Ferrari
While Aston Martin shines, Ferrari, who won the last race in Monaco, are in the shadows after a difficult weekend for Leclerc and Sainz.
The pair struggled to manage their tires in qualifying, resulting in a Q2 elimination, and on race day Leclerc had to deal with an electrical issue. A bold call to switch to slicks caused him to kneel and eventually retire the car.
accuracy did not improve, the Spaniard was unable to push the mark and a spin involving Albon resulted in a DNF. It was the first time Ferrari failed to field two Australian cars last season.
Sainz and Leclerc did not finish the race in Canada.
Champion: Alpine
Alpine faced a bad driver in Canada on Sunday afternoon after he told Esteban Ocon to give up his seat to allow Pierre Gasly to attack. Daniel Ricciardo – Gasly was not asked to return the job when he couldn’t pass because, in the words of the team, it was “too risky”.
However, both cars look back to the Grand Prix, scoring points for the first time this season.
Gasly’s ninth-place finish was the team’s best result of the year, while Ocon clawed back eight places to take the final points (following his first exit in Q1 of the second race in Saudi Arabia).
Lose: Haas
This week was one of Kevin Magnussen’s strongest weeks of the year. The Dane overtook team-mate Nico Hulkenberg for the third time this season to take an impressive 10th place in the opening laps. He was the only driver other than Hulkenberg to start on all wet tires to complete an impressive fourth.
But a slow stop dropped him earlier than expected and he never made it back into the top ten.
Magnussen made grass on the open lap with all wet tires but crashed. Points
Hulkenberg also finished tenth in the early stages, but despite a clean first place, early conditions favoring the application of the intermediate helmet forced him out of the qualifying race. The team’s run of four unconventional races.
Champion: Daniel Ricciardo
Daniel Ricciardo had one of the best weekends of the year, chasing pundits including 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, who asked what the Australian “is going on Still F1″.
He overcame tough conditions to finish fifth. It was his best qualifying performance of the year, 10 years after his first Grand Prix win at the venue.
Despite losing a few places at the start and receiving a 5-point penalty second on the grid for a jump start, he still managed to finish eighth with his first points in the 2024 Grand Prix (other of his points came in the Miami Sprint)..
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