It was harder work for the Red Bull driver than many expected when he lined up next to Fernando Alonso in the front row of the grid, but even with DRS there was no way Sainz’s Ferrari could overtake him after assembling them. car safety period. A more promising performance from Mercedes than seemed possible earlier in the weekend, meanwhile, left Lewis Hamilton feeling much happier. The following is our full range of ratings for Canada’s first Grand Prix since 2019: Max Verstappen: A comfortable success seemed on paper in the first half of the match, but in the end the Dutchman had to rely on his defensive skills to resist the charged Sainz. The Safety Car left Verstappen vulnerable to Ferrari with the help of DRS, but once he survived the first two laps under pressure, it always seemed that the title holder was on par with his former Toro Rosso teammate. That now means a 46-point lead in the World Cup and seems increasingly difficult for anyone to deal with, provided the reliability of the Verstappen car is enduring. 9.5. Carlos Sainz: When he chased Pierre Gasly to Monza in 2020, that was the closest Sainz had to winning Formula 1. He had snatched Verstappen’s lead ahead of the Safety Car, whose timing was perfect for the Spaniard, but he could not make the move he needed. He went on to say that “he had left nothing on the table”, that was a strong way to recover from the great disappointment of his departure from Baku. 9. Lewis Hamilton: A smiling Hamilton finished the second podium of the season, those who closed the first nine games, and reduced his delays against his teammate George Russell to 7-2. It was a result that did not seem possible when the seven-time former champion described FP2 on Friday as a “disaster” with the car “getting worse”. Unable to keep up with the first two after the Safety Car, Hamilton will still be thrilled with Mercedes’ progress – though it remains to be seen if it was track-specific. 8. George Russell: Another result to continue Russell’s remarkable consistency for Mercedes, now nine consecutive finishes in the top five. A bet to try slicks at the end of the qualifiers was repulsed, but the Briton climbed from eighth to fourth on a track surface that clearly matched the W13 and that was another show he can be proud of. 8.5. Charles Leclerc: Hoping to finish in the top four of the grid P19 due to his penalty on the engine, Leclerc was less than three seconds away from achieving that goal. There was some frustration for the Ferrari driver when he got stuck on a DRS train after his pit-stop and made a mistake in one of his two duels with Esteban Ocon, but that was still a decent damage limitation. 8. #CanadianGP ναA brilliant podium for @ CarlosSainz55, a great comeback from @Charles_Leclerc. Ready to give it your all at Silverstone 🇬🇧 # essereFerrari 🔴 pic.twitter.com/CD4mbrJqZ6 – Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) June 19, 2022 Esteban Ocon: This was Fernando Alonso’s day after he started in the front row, but instead it was Ocon who led the Alpine contingent. The Frenchman did well to keep Leclerc behind him in the middle of the match and at the end he was playing the team game as he helped Alonso, right behind him, make the DRS repel Alfa Romeos before the referees intervened. 7.5. Valtteri Bottas: Amid a handful of hard tires, Bottas was able to overtake teammate Zhou Guanyu as he took advantage of the safety car timing. Ocon’s help, as described above, meant that the Finn could not beat Alonso, but was eventually given a P7 in the match room. 7.5. Zhou Guanyu: The three points for the Chinese driver raised his career record to four, as he finally managed to fulfill the promise he had made last time with his car remaining credible this time. Having started in front of Bottas, he will have been disappointed to finish behind him, but he shows real improvement – and he also had the bonus of going up one place due to Alonso’s penalty. 8. Fernando Alonso: The goal was to advance to the first round and finish in the top five, but it never seemed to be a race that went Alonso’s path from the moment he passed Sainz in the third round. An engine problem prevented him in the second half of the Grand Prix and a five-second penalty for weaving in the straight, which left him in ninth place, which was ultimately a disappointing day for the Spaniard. 5. Lance Stroll: Aston Martin had a poor performance in the qualifiers compared to the pace of training, but its strategy for Stroll worked well as it started with hard tires and switched to the middle of lap 48. This enabled him to make the most of the race from the grid position to a seven-place finish and inside, that was exactly what he needed after a terrible year recently. 8. Daniel Ricciardo: A bad weekend for McLaren, which put both cars in points in Baku but also in Montreal. It was a sloppy fight for the Australian, but at least he avoided the pit-stop disaster that affected his teammate. 6. Sebastian Vettel: Like Stroll, Vettel was among those who lost in the qualifiers, but on a dry, sunny race day he was able to show Aston Martin’s recent improvement. Summoned to the race courts for not holding 10 car lengths by the opponent during the Safety Car season, the German was relieved of this charge but suffered somewhat from a bizarre strategy involving a very early stop in the sixth lap. 7. Alex Albon: Starting P12 was a great result for Albon and under the circumstances he will be happy to drop just one place, although he ran for a while in the early stages after the departure of Sergio Perez. He was overtaken by Bottas and Leclerc in the 18th round, but the situation was reversed later as he quickly won two places against Pierre Gasly and Kevin Magnussen. 7. Pierre Gasly: Everything changed for AlphaTauri in seven days as they completely failed to support their excellent results in Baku. Like Vettel, Gasly made a pit stop for hard tires in the sixth lap and was back in lap 38, but the 14th would certainly not be where he hoped to finish when he arrived in Canada. 6. Lando Norris: Just like in Bahrain at the beginning of the campaign, Norris finished 15th and this was definitely a race he will want to forget, as he was fined for speeding in the pit lane. The double-stack pit-stop was performed comically badly by McLaren with the British very victim. In Norris’s words, just one of those weekends? 5. Hello beautiful McLaren orange papaya fans pic.twitter.com/Lmn0ZPUSpC – Lando Norris (@LandoNorris) June 19, 2022 Nicholas Latifi: Unlike Stroll, his return to his homeland brought no change of fortune for Latifi. This was his first Grand Prix in Canada, the city where he was born, and nothing came of his performance to dispel rumors that he was in danger of being replaced either at the end or at the end of the season. 5. Kevin Magnussen: A golden opportunity for Haas to score points, thanks to a third-row padlock, was ruled out as all of the team’s issues came back to haunt them. In terms of driving, it was Magnussen who came very close to Hamilton again in the first lap, as in Spain, and the damage to his front wing brought a black and orange flag that ended his hopes of finishing in the top 10. 5.
It’s not over
Yuki Tsunoda: Part of the DRS train in the middle of the race, Leclerc had to fight, Tsunoda smelled a point, but it disappeared in lap 49. Coming out of the pits with cold tires, he lost control and ran to the dam. Admitting that he had confused them, although in a more intense way, he can expect a tongue twister from Helmut Marco. 4. Mick Schumacher: He would not expect to finish where he started in P6, but Schumacher fell behind the start as he overtook Russell in the first round. Overtaken by Zhou in the 19th round, the German quickly left the race, but the problem was the car and not everything he had done. 6. Sergio Perez: An encounter with the blocks ended Perez’s qualifying and he was gradually off the field when he lost his drive and had to retire from the P10 in the ninth lap. It was still too early to give a score with the Mexican race not having developed properly at that stage. N / A.
