Introduction
Max Verstappen made it six victories from eight races in 2023 with a dominant show through the 2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, main residence the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, as Red Bull maintained their 100% successful document for the season thus far.
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Verstappen’s lights-to-flag triumph additionally gave Red Bull their one centesimal victory within the sport, 18 years on from the workforce’s debut, whereas the Dutchman made extra historical past by drawing stage with the legendary Ayrton Senna on 41 wins – extending his championship lead within the course of.
Alonso and Hamilton traded locations on a number of events all through the race, Hamilton getting the soar in the beginning however falling again behind when the methods unfolded, which means it was the Spaniard who completed runner-up to the record-setting Verstappen.
George Russell missed out on a possible podium combat within the different Mercedes after an early crash triggered main harm to his automobile and dropped him to the foot of the order, with the ensuing Safety Car resulting in totally different strategic approaches.
Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz have been two of solely 5 drivers – together with Red Bull’s Perez, Haas man Kevin Magnussen and Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas – to remain out underneath the Safety Car, giving them observe place that they transformed into P4 and P5 respectively.
Perez took a lonely sixth, and the quickest lap bonus level, as he did his finest to restrict the harm after a 3rd successive compromised qualifying session, whereas Albon made essentially the most of his high 10 beginning spot – and a well-timed single cease underneath the Safety Car – to offer Williams a much-welcomed haul of factors in seventh.
Albon needed to fend off a practice of automobiles within the closing phases of the race that included Alpine’s Esteban Ocon, McLaren’s Lando Norris, the aforementioned Bottas and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, benefitting from the upgraded FW45’s robust straight-line pace.
Norris would lose his factors end after the chequered flag, although, having been given a five-second penalty for “unsportsmanlike conduct” behind the Safety Car, the McLaren man accused of backing up the pack to clear the best way for a McLaren ‘double-stack’ within the pits.
That meant Norris dropped to P13, behind teammate Oscar Piastri and the opposite Alpine of Pierre Gasly, with the ultimate factors of the day going to Stroll and Bottas – the Canadian managing to go the Finn late on to achieve an additional place.
After dropping from second to fifth on the grid attributable to his crimson flag breach in qualifying, Nico Hulkenberg skilled an nameless afternoon en path to fifteenth, behind the lead AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda, having misplaced out with a cease simply earlier than the Safety Car and the Haas workforce’s normal lack of competitiveness on race day.
Zhou Guanyu was sixteenth within the second of the Alfa Romeo machines, whereas Magnussen and AlphaTauri’s Nyck de Vries wound up seventeenth and 18th respectively after two collisions halfway by way of the race that led to them each working off the observe.
Having initially continued after his crash and labored his means again into the factors, Russell was later instructed to retire amid brake worries, with Logan Sargeant the opposite non-finisher when the Williams rookie was requested to park his automobile within the early phases.
Mario Isola, Motorsport Director, Pirelli:
It was a really fascinating race, essentially the most carefully balanced thus far this season, as will be seen from the outcomes sheet, with 4 drivers from 4 totally different groups all ending within the house of underneath 20 seconds. Yesterday’s prediction {that a} two-stop technique was the most suitable choice was confirmed as the highest three all went down this route, even when they every managed it in several methods. However, the one-stop proved to be a legitimate different, as demonstrated by the 2 Ferrari drivers: Leclerc and Sainz went to over half-distance on the Mediums with none important degradation when it comes to tyre efficiency, an indication that their automobile is making progress on the set-up entrance.
Temperatures have been decrease as we speak than on Friday and that contributed to decreasing the danger of overheating the tyres. Another issue that performed an necessary position in tyre administration was the actual fact the observe rubbered in in a short time through the race, regardless that it was initially very soiled after it had rained for nearly all of Saturday.
Personally, it was an honour for me, on behalf of Pirelli, the race’s Title Sponsor, at hand over the successful constructors’ trophy to Adrian Newey, somebody who has contributed a lot to the historical past of this workforce and of our sport and certainly, who continues to take action, on the very day when Red Bull celebrated its one centesimal win.
How the race was gained from the tyre standpoint:
Max Verstappen gained the 2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix. It was his forty first victory, which places him stage with Ayrton Senna in fifth place on the all-time winners listing which is headed by Lewis Hamilton on 103.
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This was Red Bull’s one centesimal win from 355 Grand Prix begins. Its first dates again to 19 April 2009 when Sebastian Vettel gained in China. Red Bull is the fifth workforce to have reached a century of wins in a class headed by Ferrari (242), adopted by McLaren (183), Mercedes (125) and Williams (114).
Of the highest ten finishers, six drivers stopped twice with solely 4 making simply the one cease. However, it’s price noting that Perez’s second pit cease, simply two laps from the tip was carried out purely to permit him to choose up the additional level for setting the quickest race lap.
16 drivers opted to start out on the Mediums: three of the remaining 4 – Perez, Bottas and Magnussen – selected the Hard tyre, whereas solely Gasly most well-liked to start out on the Softs. As anticipated, the C5 was the least used compound within the race, finishing simply 12 laps: ten of these have been in Gasly’s first stint and two with Perez on the finish of the race.
The most used compound was the C3 (70.4% of all laps accomplished) however a big variety of laps (28.7%) have been run on the C4. In phrases of stint size, the standout efficiency got here from Albon, who isn’t any stranger to this feat, working 58 laps on a set of Hards. He completed in a formidable seventh place. Leclerc drove the longest stint on Medium tyres doing 39 laps.
What’s subsequent?
The subsequent race takes place on the Red Bull Ring from 30 June to 2 July. The Austrian Grand Prix would be the second spherical of the season, after the one in Azerbaijan, to be run to the brand new F1 Sprint format. Qualifying for the principle race takes place on Friday afternoon, whereas observe motion on Saturday is totally given over to the Sprint. First, there’s the Sprint Shootout, with the brief 24-lap race following later within the afternoon. In Spielberg, drivers will use the identical compounds as in Montreal: the C3 as Hard, C4 as Medium and the C5 as Soft. As with all F1 Sprint weekends, every driver may have simply 12 units of dry climate tyres out there to them as an alternative of 13.
2023 Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix Race Results
| Pos | No | Driver | Country | Team | Time | Points | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 | Max Verstappen | Netherlands | Red Bull Racing Honda | 1:48:51.980 | 25 | 93 |
| 2. | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Spain | Alpine F1 Team | +27.921s | 18 | 60 |
| 3. | 31 | Esteban Ocon | France | Alpine F1 Team | +36.990s | 15 | 4 |
| 4. | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Great Britain | Mercedes-AMG Petronas | +39.062s | 13 | 48 |
| 5. | 63 | George Russell | Great Britain | Mercedes-AMG Petronas | +56.284s | 10 | 28 |
| 6. | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Monaco | Scuderia Ferrari | +61.890s | 8 | 28 |
| 7. | 10 | Pierre Gasly | France | Alpine F1 Team | +62.362s | 6 | 2 |
| 8. | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Spain | Scuderia Ferrari | +63.391s | 4 | 34 |
| 9. | 4 | Lando Norris | Great Britain | Mclaren Racing | +1 lap | 2 | 10 |
| 10. | 81 | Oscar Piastri | Australia | McLaren Racing | +1 lap | 1 | 4 |
| 11. | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Finland | Alfa Romeo F1 Team | +1 lap | 0 | 4 |
| 12. | 21 | Nyck De Vries | Netherlands | Scuderia AlphaTauri | +1 lap | 0 | 0 |
| 13. | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | China | Alfa Romeo F1 Team | +1 lap | 0 | 2 |
| 14. | 45 | Alexander Albon | Thailand | Williams Racing | +1 lap | 0 | 1 |
| 15. | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Japan | Scuderia AlphaTauri | +2 laps | 0 | 2 |
| 16. | 11 | Sergio Perez | Mexico | Red Bull Racing Honda | +2 laps | 0 | 87 |
| 17. | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Germany | Haas F1 Team | +2 laps | 0 | 6 |
| 18. | 2 | Logan Sargeant | USA | Williams Racing | +2 laps | 0 | 0 |
| 10. | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Denmark | Haas F1 Team | DNF | 0 | 1 |
| 12. | 18 | Lance Stroll | Canada | Aston Martin F1 Team | DNF | 0 | 27 |
2023 Constructor Standings
Here are the team-by-team highlights:
