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The safety car still brought excitement but the law of the strongest was valid: Verstappen wins for the first time in Montreal and reinforces the leadership

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The safety car still brought excitement but the law of the strongest was valid: Verstappen wins for the first time in Montreal and reinforces the leadership

What was, turned out not to be. After everything that happened at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Red Bull taking advantage of the extended treadmill due to the unreliability of Ferrari and Mercedes taking another small step to get closer to the top positions also in terms of times, the free practice sessions and above all the classification for the The Canadian Grand Prix ended up reversing the forecasts that had been made with one exception: Max Verstappen showed that is in front again.

“Trouble, engine”: the two words that extended the treadmill to Verstappen (and left Leclerc on foot in Azerbaijan)

With a gun lap of 1.21.299, the Dutchman broke a series of four positions of privilege The consecutive victories of Charles Leclerc in what was his second victory in qualifying but at his side was Fernando Alonso, who put his Alpine in free practice and was just the other car to lap in 1.21, with a second position that also meant the first time on the local line 3619 days later and the record for the oldest driver to start from the front row since Michael Schumacher in 2012. Carlos Sainz still left signs that he could take pole but he did not go beyond third on the grid.

But the surprises did not end there: Lewis Hamilton managed to be faster than George Russell, Kevin Magnussen equaled the best position in the history of a Haas in fifth position, Mick Schumacher made the best qualifying of his career and Leclerc for the first time out of the first line in 2022, breaking the streak of eight classifications in front with a 19 place motivated also by the penalty of ten positions for the replacement of more parts in the power unit of his Ferrari, having in the examples of Rubens Barrichello (2005) and Alexander Wurz (2007) the only drivers to leave behind who still reached the podium .

For all these reasons, and at a time when the war for porpoise is becoming more open with Mercedes using the Baku example to say that at least one driver per team finished with physical problems, the Canadian Grand Prix would be a challenge to confirm what came out of qualifying and ended with Verstappen’s victory in Montreal, increasing the advantage in the World Cup.

Max Verstappen’s departure left little room for surprises at the start, with Red Bull firing ahead as Fernando Alonso defended second from Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton tried unsuccessfully to climb onto the podium. So the only changes were the climbs of Ocon and George Russell, with Mick Schumacher dropping to seventh and then eighth before leveling off ahead of Daniel Ricciardo. Alonso was not riding badly but the Dutchman had gone ahead and Carlos Sainz was the only one who showed pace to try to get closer, jumping to second position on the third lap with his teammate Charles Leclerc moving up to 16th now behind Sebastian Vettel.

The Mercedes were back in the lead, with George Russell passing Ocon and Magnussen to reach fifth position, but the Danish Haas had the race definitively spoiled with the problems he was registering after a brush on the first lap with Hamilton that damaged the front spoiler. and led to a long pit stop. Then Sergio Pérez’s car, which was still outside the top 10, had transmission problems and forced the withdrawal of the Mexican, with input from car insurance and the passage of Verstappen in full boxes to change tires, entering behind Carlos Sainz and Alonso.

Verstappen had passed Alonso and was squeezing Sainz when attention began to focus on the fight for tenth place between Alexander Albon and Valtteri Bottas with Charles Leclerc on the lookout to move up a few more positions when Mick Schumacher also had problems with his Haas and was forced to retire, which led to the new entry on the scene of the car insurance that led the new pilgrimage to the pits with a new order in the classification that had the Dutchman in front, Alonso second, Sainz again third ahead of the two Mercedes and Leclerc seventh with Ocon ahead in a Good recovery in 22 laps.

Fernando Alonso couldn’t keep up the pace in the following laps and, after being overtaken by Carlos Sainz, he couldn’t take the pressure from Hamilton either, who jumped onto the podium before the halfway mark. It was only when Leclerc pitted for the first time that there were changes in the first two, with the Monegasque entering 12th before a move that could change what seemed to be written history in this Grand Prix: Max Verstappen had the second stop, he came out behind Hamilton with Sainz being able to benefit from that ahead, the Dutchman got annoyed asking the team what had happened considering that there was a guarantee that he would always come out ahead of the Briton but the former world champion was also there. the boxes later to leave the fight to just two.

Carlos Sainz was still leading and had already broken the record for the number of laps ahead in a single Grand Prix, then he took advantage of Tsunoda’s exit at the exit of turn 1 to go through the pits before entering the car insurance on the track while the Japanese’s car was withdrawn. Even Leclerc, seventh, earned a new opportunity to climb more positions with everything open for the last 16 laps, with Max Verstappen preparing in the best way for the start so as not to give Sainz a chance to risk overtaking after the restart. The Spaniard failed to pass the Dutchman, who won for the first time in Montreal, and the main course at the end was still Leclerc, beating Alonso and Ocon to finish fifth.

With this victory, Max Verstappen already has six wins in nine races in 2022, considerably increasing his leadership in the World Championship, even with the loss of Sergio Pérez. The Dutchman already has 175 points, 46 more than his Mexican partner.

Source: Observadora

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