George Russell wins his fourth profession GP whereas McLaren’s Lando Norris crashes out after touching teammate Oscar Piastri three laps from the end.
George Russell received his first race of the Formulation 1 season because the Mercedes driver held off defending race winner Max Verstappen on the Canadian Grand Prix.
It was the fourth victory of Russell’s profession, and the race ended underneath a yellow flag when McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris staged a wheel-to-wheel late battle that ended with Norris hitting the wall on Sunday.
Russell began on pole for the second consecutive yr in Montreal and held the benefit a lot of the race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The British driver grew to become the fourth race winner this yr, becoming a member of Piastri, Norris and Verstappen, the four-time reigning F1 champion.
Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli completed third behind Verstappen for his first F1 podium.
The 2 McLarens got here collectively when Norris, then in fifth, tried to cross Piastri a number of occasions on the 67th lap out of 70.
Norris finally bumped into Piastri and bounced into the wall, drawing a security automobile for the ultimate laps.
Piastri completed fourth, ending an eight-race podium streak relationship again to the second race of the season. McLaren as a crew failed to achieve the highest three for the primary time this yr.
Norris, who ended at a standstill by the aspect of the monitor with no entrance wing and a damaged automobile, was fast in charge himself.
“I’m sorry. All my dangerous. All my fault. Silly from me,” he mentioned over the crew radio.
McLaren driver Lando Norris, left, on the aspect of the monitor after crashing into teammate Oscar Piastri, prime of display screen, on lap 67 of the Canadian Grand Prix (Clive Rose/Getty Pictures through AFP)
Piastri pitted as the security automobile was deployed and rejoined with a tyre benefit over Antonelli that he couldn’t use because the racing by no means resumed.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton completed fifth and sixth, with Fernando Alonso seventh for Aston Martin and Nico Hulkenberg bringing in additional stable factors for Sauber in eighth place.
Piastri stretches his lead over Norris within the drivers’ championship to 22 factors after 10 of 24 races within the 2025 season.
The following race of the F1 season is the Austrian Grand Prix on June 29.
Mercedes’s George Russell, entrance, crosses the end line to win the Canadian Grand Prix, adopted by Crimson Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen in second place (Shawn Thew/Pool through AFP)
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