Relive the Canadian Grand Prix through key F1 stats, records, and historic moments from Russell’s win and Antonelli’s podium breakthrough.
As after every Grand Prix, it’s time to look at the most striking statistics, the records that have been broken, and the impressive streaks either still ongoing or abruptly ended over the past weekend.
Qualifying
George Russell takes his sixth career pole position – and his first to be repeated at the same circuit, following his pole here in 2024. The front row is identical to last year’s.
Max Verstappen, second, secures his fifth front-row start this season. He won from this position in Montreal last year, but not this time.
Oscar Piastri, third, completes the top three. He has still never won from third on the grid – his victories have come from pole, second, or fourth place.
Kimi Antonelli, fourth, nearly matches his best qualifying performance of the season, having only done better in Miami (third).
Lewis Hamilton qualifies fifth. He equals his best starting position for Ferrari – already achieved this season – and gives the Scuderia its best starting spot in Montreal since 2022.
Fernando Alonso, sixth, starts in the top six at Montreal for the fourth consecutive time. It’s also his third start inside the top six in the last four races. Aston Martin F1’s upgrades are clearly working well.
Lando Norris, seventh, started from a position that has produced two winners in Montreal since 2000 – more than the third, fourth, or fifth grid positions combined. But when starting lower than sixth, he has only finished on the podium twice: Imola 2021 and Qatar 2023. The poor streak continues.
Charles Leclerc, eighth, is outqualified by Hamilton for the second race in a row – a first this season.
Isack Hadjar, ninth, qualifies in the same position for the third time in four Grands Prix.
Franco Colapinto records his best start with Alpine: eleventh, after a sixteenth place in Imola.
Ollie Bearman, fourteenth, outqualifies Esteban Ocon for the fourth time this season.
Gabriel Bortoleto is knocked out in Q1, just 0.007 seconds short of reaching Q2. He has now been outqualified by his teammate six times to four this season.
Carlos Sainz, eliminated in Q1, exits in the first qualifying phase for the second consecutive race – a first since Abu Dhabi 2023.
Lance Stroll suffers his sixth Q1 elimination in ten Grands Prix this season.
Liam Lawson, uncomfortable all weekend, has his worst qualifying result since returning, matching his performance in China.
Pierre Gasly, last, puts Alpine at the bottom of the qualifying order for the second time in three races, after Colapinto’s twentieth place in Monaco.
Worth noting: only 0.841 seconds separated the entire field in Q1 – just above the 0.834 seconds gap in Barcelona. The narrowest gap remains last year at the Red Bull Ring (0.798 seconds). Will that record fall at the next Grand Prix?
Race
The Canadian Grand Prix had previously finished under the safety car twice: in 1999 and in 2014, after the major crash between Felipe Massa and Sergio Pérez.
George Russell becomes the fourth different winner this season. He also gives his team a fifth win in Montreal – the first for Mercedes without Lewis Hamilton behind the wheel.
Russell steps onto the podium for the fifth time this year, already surpassing his total from the entire 2024 season. He wins from the front row, as did the previous eight Montreal winners.
Max Verstappen (second) sees his streak of three straight Canadian wins end, but reduces his championship gap to Oscar Piastri to just 43 points.
This marks the third time Russell and Verstappen have finished first and second, but the first time with the Briton ahead (after Belgium 2021 and the Netherlands 2022).
By finishing third, Kimi Antonelli secures his first-ever Formula 1 podium at 18 years and 294 days, becoming the third-youngest driver in history to do so, behind Verstappen and Stroll.
He is also the first Italian on the podium since Jarno Trulli in Japan, 2009.
This result allows Mercedes to retake second place in the constructors’ standings, a spot Ferrari had taken from them in Barcelona.
Oscar Piastri narrowly misses the podium (fourth), ending an impressive run of eight consecutive podium finishes – one short of the McLaren record set by Hamilton in 2007.
The collision between the two McLarens in the final laps recalls a famous precedent: Hamilton and Button’s clash in 2011, also in Canada and also between McLaren teammates.
Charles Leclerc finishes fifth for Ferrari. He has now outperformed his teammate Hamilton in nine out of ten Grands Prix this season.
Hamilton finishes sixth – another disappointing result in a season where, for the first time in his 19-year career, he has not stood on the podium in the first ten races.
Fernando Alonso, seventh, scores points for the second consecutive Grand Prix, after eight straight races without scoring a single point.
Nico Hülkenberg (eighth) secures his third top-eight finish of the year with Kick Sauber. He becomes the first Sauber driver to score in back-to-back races since Bottas at the end of 2022.
Esteban Ocon, ninth, gives Haas its best-ever result in Montreal, in what is the team’s 200th Grand Prix. It is also his fourth points finish this season.
Carlos Sainz (tenth) helps Williams score for the fifth time in six races. But the Grove-based team had much higher expectations for their trip to the Belle Province.
Meanwhile, Lando Norris fails to finish for the first time since the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix.
Liam Lawson also retires – his third DNF of the season for Racing Bulls.
Alex Albon, forced to retire, records a second consecutive DNF.
