Russell claims victory in Montreal, McLaren's Collide

George Russell wins the Canadian Grand Prix and picks up his first win of the season, his 4th in his career. Russell dominated the race from Max Verstappen and his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli who joined him on the podium. On the opening lap, it was hectic with everyone scrambling for position as the lights went out, and heading into turns 8 and 9, Franco Colapinto and Alex Albon were side by side heading into the corner. With neither driver wanting to give up the corner, the Williams of Albon went wide into the grass and as he rejoined the track everyone scrambled and it was the Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg going passed everyone into the 9th position.

On lap 11, Max Verstappen was asked about the conditions of his tires and he came over the radio "Yeah, not good, very fragile." Further into the race on lap 45 as the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll defended against Pierre Gasly, Stroll ever so slightly squeezed the Alpine Driver off the track, causing Gasly to use the runoff area into the final chicane, and because of that the stewards handed Stroll a 10 second time penalty.

Later on in the race we saw the first two retirements being Alex Albon on lap 46, and Liam Lawson on 55, both due to mechanical failures. As the laps continued to wound down towards the end, Lando Norris had caught Piastri and Antonelli who were racing for that last podium position.

However, chaos would ensue on the start of lap 67 as the McLaren teammates of Piastri and Norris would collide with Norris breaking his front wing and going into the wall after running into the back of Piastri. Norris took full responsibility from the incident "yep, I'm sorry, It's my bad. All my fault. Unlucky. Sorry. Stupid from me." With that incident, the full course safety car was displayed and with very little laps left, the race ended behind the safety car.

As the checkered flag fell, it was George Russell claiming the victory, Max Verstappen in second, and Kimi Antonelli in third. Antonelli claims his first career podium and becomes the third youngest podium scorer in F1 history at 18 years 9 months and 21 days, behind Lance Stroll and Max Verstappen. With Norris' DNF in the Canadian Grand Prix, he falls 22 points behind his teammate Oscar Piastri, the championship leader.