Verstappen He is considered the best driver on the grid currently for many things. It is by hand, but also by the team. And that combination is key in the Canadian F1 GP. His rivals tried in every way. Russell did so with pole, which he tried to defend from the start in a wet race. And Norris proved it with an attack that seemed to give him about half a victory. But George failed on several important occasions. Something that cannot be done in F1 if you want to win. And the McLaren team also made a mistake after the event’s only ‘Safety Car’ gave wings to a Verstappen who could have been on the ropes. Many will say luck. Maybe not. But Red Bull and Max are better at fighting at the top and it showed. The best wins, without the fastest car.
F1 CANADIAN GP RESULTS 2024
In a Grand Prix where he had many against him, the Dutchman and red bull They once again acted as a perfect machine for the current king to win again. Yesterday he achieved his 60th victory in F1, again without sweeping, and as in Imolawon again despite the fact that it seemed clear that he didn’t have the best car on the grid in Canada. But he used his cards very well. There is a difference.
The race started in the wet
The race started wet and there was a bit of rain forecast for the middle of the race to finish dry. For this reason, most drivers choose to start with the intermediate tire. With 20 vacuum cleaners spinning the wheels at 100 degrees, lap after lap, a dry lane will quickly form in the middle of a waterlogged track. We had to endure the first turns, with the wettest track, and that meant no one took any risks at the start. The race since then has been a chess board, a strategic meeting with a hugely tense calm where everyone is waiting for a key twist in the script.
No one wants to go into the pits to put dry tires on because it has to rain again. And overtaking is very difficult because to do it, drivers have to leave the dry road and try to do it in water while braking.
Russell’s inexplicable mistake and Norris took the lead
In that context, everything seems to be in Russell’s face and Max fights him even more by leaving the track and giving up the position to Lando Norris. But the Briton took it upon himself to start losing the race and fight in the water. On lap 21, George made a mistake with an incomprehensible defense. He chose to close the door on Lando inside the penultimate corner, through the wet area, instead of holding firmly in the dry area.
If he had, Lando couldn’t pass him. His maneuver opened the door for Lando as he was able to attack and brake on dry land. Everything changed in the lead: Norris now dominated with devilish pace in the lead. Looks like this could be his day, again like in Miami. And after 3 laps, he had a 5 second advantage over Max. He can go for his second victory. But there are still many movies left and Max always has seven lives.
McLaren falls asleep and Max steals Norris’ wallet
A ‘safety car’ on lap 25 due to Sargeant’s accident changed everything again. Norris’s chasers entered the pits to re-establish gaps as the rain set in again. But Lando didn’t enter. That condemned him. What gave him success in Miami will be taken away in Montreal. Luck sometimes gives and sometimes takes away. This is the last for Lando. Or rather, it was McLaren’s mistake not to put the Englishman in the pits like everyone else did. And the thing is that in these situations, the first is usually the loser because they have to make decisions without knowing what their rivals will do.
Thus, a strategic error by McLaren returned the lead to Verstappen and second position to Russell. Norris came into the pits a few laps later and went from the lead to third. The race changed for the third time. But one final key factor is still missing. The rain started to wet the track again and the final key was when to stop to put on dry tires. Doing so at the right time will be decisive.
And there, leading, unlike what McLaren did, Red Bull’s pulse did not tremble after Hamilton stopped on lap 44, when he was 5th. A lap later Verstappen and Russell did it. Meanwhile, Norris chose the opposite. I know that Max’s return to the track with fresh dry rubber in difficult conditions will be slow and Lando wants to take advantage of this. He had to push hard to stop at the next turn and came out ahead, taking the lead again. But he was already swimming against the current. When he changed tires, he came out with cold tires paired with a Verstappen covering the dry lane. Max maintained the lead in the race and claimed most of the victory. I just had to hold on.
however, Verstappen complained that his car was difficult to drive. In fact, the Canadian track doesn’t suit Red Bull because of how much you have to step on the dry curves. And now there is almost no water, I have to do it. He struggled and Norris was getting closer. But Lando, with the better car now, made a mistake at turn 10 on lap 50 and gave the place to Russell. AND George made another over two turns later by jumping too far off a curb, giving the place back to Norris. It is a game of failures. And that’s not how you win a race. In contrast, Verstappen, despite suffering, drove safely and without mistakes to win.
A safety car stopped the race again due to an accident between Sainz (who left after the race in which he had no choice) and Albon. Verstappen attacked again after the restart and gained a 3-second advantage over Norris. Enough to win.
Alonso, 6th
Fernando Alonso achieved a good sixth position. The Asturian started on the 6th and he continued to attack, being the only rider at the front who attempted to overtake in the wet start. He overtook Daniel Ricciardo with a good exit at Turn 1, pulling into a very wet area on the inside of Turn 2.
A good defense against Lewis Hamilton started in the fight for 5th place. The Englishman tried everything with a faster car, but the Asturian endured the situation with horchata blood, without breaking a sweat, knowing that he just had to stay on the dry road and that lewis If I wanted to pass him I had a hard time in the wet. However, when entering the pits with ‘Safety Vehicle’ of Sergeant, lost ground to Hamilton due to his team’s slow stops. His pit stop was 4.3 seconds and Lewis’s was 2.4. Despite this, he knew that at the end of the race, with the track dry, Hamilton had more speed and would have passed him.
Alonso drove an Aston Martin that lacked rhythmboth in the wet and in the dry, and with those weapons the man from Oviedo could not attack to think more than 6th place.
Sainz and Leclerc left
The Canadian GP was a disaster for Ferrari. The car did not perform as expected in qualifying and Sainz and Leclerc struggled starting 12th and 11th, respectively. They had no rhythm and Charles was affected by a problem with his engine, which left him with no options. Meanwhile, Carlos, who was out of the points, in 11th position, when he chased Albon by a second, made a mistake when he stepped on a curb and took out the Thai. The Madrid native left for a weekend to forget those in red.
Source: La Verdad
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