Canada is always a party for Formula 1 fans to the same extent that it usually becomes an ordeal for team strategists, obsessed with trying to project the future to get their plans right and who very often find themselves surprised by the Montreal’s changing climate. That the circuit was named in honor of Gilles Villeneuve was logical if we take into account the aura that surrounded the Quebec rider, probably the most beloved runner-up in the history of the event. Villeneuve was different from the rest and that is why the races held on the track named after him are also different. It saw the longest grand prix in the history of the championship (4 hours, 4 minutes and 39 seconds), the one in 2011 that Jenson Button won after being neutralized five times.
This Sunday, the safety car came out only twice, enough to open the outcome of the most competitive race of the nine calendar stops held to date. A street runner won by Max Verstappen, the usual one, who took his fifth win of the season and number 60 on his service record. Lando Norris finished second and George Russell closed the podium, after risking a dizzying overtake on Lewis Hamilton (fourth), his still Mercedes teammate, with two laps to go before the checkered flag. Fernando Alonso crossed the finish line sixth, and Carlos Sainz abandoned (lap 55) as a result of a spin that ended with his Ferrari on top of Alex Albon’s Williams.
There will be those who say that the outcome was the same as always and the evidence cannot be denied, although the features of this victory have nothing to do with the majority of those accumulated Mad Max. In Canada, the fastest was Norris, harmed on this occasion by McLaren, his team, which called him a lap too late and made him lose the command he had earned on the track, after getting rid of Russell and Verstappen in just one. two laps. He security He allied himself with the British in Miami, where he won for the first time, and turned against him in Montreal, where, yes, it was clear that the deck has been remixed. The overwhelming dominance that has given Red Bull the last two titles is over. The Mercedes was the fastest car in the tests and the McLaren was on Sunday, although the current champion showed that he also knows how to suffer and not fail when he does not have all the tricks up his sleeve, as has happened until now.
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