World champion Max Verstappen drew alongside Ayrton Senna within the Formula One report books along with his forty first victory on Sunday when he drove his Red Bull to a flawless triumph on the Canadian Grand Prix. The 25-year-old defending double champion and sequence chief led from lights to flag as he got here residence 9.570 seconds forward of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso with Lewis Hamilton ending third for Mercedes for his staff’s a hundredth F1 win. It was Verstappen’s second win on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, his sixth in eight races this 12 months and his forty first total, leaving him behind solely four-time champions Alain Prost (51) and Sebastian Vettel (53), seven-time champions Michael Schumacher (91) and Hamilton (103).

“It’s amazing to get the team’s 100th win here. I never expected to be on these kind of numbers for myself so we have to just keep enjoying it and working hard, but this is a great day for us,” mentioned Verstappen.

For Red Bull, this complete victory was their eighth this 12 months and tenth in succession – statistics that make the prospect of an invincible season seem ever extra seemingly.

Alonso’s podium was his sixth of the season as he continued to ship aggressive and revived type, aged 41.

Alonso mentioned he was managing a brake concern on the finish of the race.

“We hoped to challenge a bit more, but we lost a place to Lewis at the start and then battled all race. It was like 70 qualifying laps,” he mentioned.

Hamilton mentioned: “It’s been a great weekend here for us and we are chipping away and making progress. It’s an honour to be here on the podium with these two world champions.”

Charles Leclerc got here residence fourth forward of his Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez within the second Red Bull with Alex Albon taking a wonderful seventh in his revamped Williams.

Esteban Ocon was eighth for Alpine forward of McLaren’s Lando Norris, who dropped to thirteenth with a five-second time penalty, and native hero Lance Stroll within the second Aston Martin.

Perez recorded the quickest lap of the race to take a bonus level, however is now 69 factors behind his team-mate within the drivers title race.

After Saturday’s rain-swept qualifying, the race started in heat sunshine with Verstappen and Hamilton having fun with excellent begins, the Mercedes man firing previous Alonso to take second.

The Aston Martin pushed to recuperate, holding off Russell, however by lap 5 Verstappen was 1.8 seconds away from Hamilton with Alonso 2.7 adrift in third, having banged the wall at Turn Four.

Russell was fourth forward of Ocon and Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg, who began fifth, earlier than a Virtual Safety Car was deployed when Logan Sargeant pulled up and retired his Williams.

– ‘I’m so sorry’ –

Hulkenberg made an early pit-stop after 12 laps, shortly earlier than Russell smacked the wall on the exit of the chicane at Turn Nine inflicting a full Safety Car deployment on lap 13.

Russell limped again to the Mercedes pits for a brand new entrance wing and contemporary tyres, the leaders all having dived in to modify to laborious rubber, Hamilton and Alonso virtually colliding as they exited their pits.

Racing resumed on lap 16, the main trio scrapping instantly with out positional adjustments earlier than Verstappen pulled clear.

The Ferraris of Leclerc and Sainz had labored by means of to fourth and fifth, on mediums, forward of Perez, however they struggled for outright tempo.

On lap 23, having stalked his foe, Alonso attacked and handed Hamilton with assistance from Drag Reduction System (DRS) going into the ultimate chicane.

Russell, from final, fought again to eighth earlier than he retired on lap 55.

“I’m so sorry everyone,” mentioned Russell. “Nothing more to say. Sorry.”

Perez pitted from sixth after 40 laps, taking mediums, however was unable to make an impression on the highest 5 and selected a late burst on softs to take quickest lap.

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