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Lewis Hamilton’s Canadian GP P2 was his best resul

Lewis Hamilton’s Canadian GP P2 was his best result yet as a Ferrari driver, a hard-earned step forward in a season built on small gains. But the standout Hamilton moment of the weekend came at the same time in Norfolk, as younger brother Nicolas claimed his first BTCC podium with EXCELR8 Motorsport and won the Jack Sears Trophy.

Lewis marked the double-podium day with pride and a pointed message: motorsport still isn’t built to be inclusive, with limited access and support for disabled competitors. Nicolas’ Snetterton breakthrough wasn’t a token headline, but the result of years of adapting, persisting, and pushing through barriers to reach a dream he’s chased for 18 years.

#F1 #CanadianGP #LewisHamilton #BTCC #NicolasHamilton #MotorsportInclusivity

Ross Brawn is heading back to the sharp end of a p

Ross Brawn is heading back to the sharp end of a pitlane, joining Pramac Racing Limited’s board as a non-executive director and strategic adviser to team principal Paolo Campinoti. After stepping away from Formula 1 at the end of 2022 — having helped shape the 2022 ground-effect era and building a legacy that spans Schumacher’s title runs, Brawn GP’s 2009 miracle and Mercedes’ rise — Brawn now brings that institutional, systems-first mindset to MotoGP.

The timing is no coincidence. Pramac sit bottom of the 2026 MotoGP team standings on six points, and this looks less like a vanity appointment than a push for calmer decision-making, clearer long-term planning and harder internal honesty. It also underlines a bigger trend in Liberty Media’s MotoGP era: F1’s networks and senior operators are increasingly crossing into the bike paddock, and struggling teams are happy to borrow proven methods from the other side.

#MotoGP #PramacRacing #RossBrawn #Motorsport #LibertyMedia #PaddockNews

Montreal served up the classic wet-to-dry trap: a

Montreal served up the classic wet-to-dry trap: a forecast that wouldn’t commit, a track that looked “safe” for inters, then a drying line that arrived faster than the drizzle. McLaren started on intermediates expecting more rain, but it never came — and the extended pre-start procedure effectively gave the circuit extra time to dry. Oscar Piastri said he was “floating around” and boxed at the end of lap 1 for slicks, with Lando Norris following a lap later after briefly running at the front.

Those early stops handed Max Verstappen track position without a fight, and Red Bull turned the moment into a third-place finish — helped again later when George Russell retired. Verstappen called it “a great call” with a pointed “Thank you,” while Andrea Stella defended McLaren’s decision as right for the conditions at the time, only undone by how quickly everything flipped.

#F1 #CanadianGP #McLaren #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #MontrealGP

Ferrari left Montreal with points, but plenty to u

Ferrari left Montreal with points, but plenty to unpack. Charles Leclerc called it the toughest weekend of his F1 career despite salvaging P4 in a cold, chaotic Canadian GP defined by strategy swings and late-race survival. He said he had “zero feeling” with the tyres from the first lap of FP1 to the chequered flag, and admitted the result felt more like luck than reward.

The comparison hurt more than the points helped. Lewis Hamilton looked at home in the same Ferrari, finishing 34 seconds up the road, setting a clear pace benchmark, and closing to within three points in the standings while leading their race head-to-head 3–2. Leclerc openly credited Hamilton as “absolutely incredible” and said the upside is finally having a reference to study — but weekends like this also sharpen the internal pecking order, and Montreal just raised the pressure in Maranello.

#F1 #CanadianGP #Ferrari #CharlesLeclerc #LewisHamilton #MotorsportNews

Lewis Hamilton’s Montreal weekend didn’t need to b

Lewis Hamilton’s Montreal weekend didn’t need to be loud to feel significant. From P5 to P2, he delivered his first second place for Ferrari and his 204th career podium, capped by a statement overtake on Max Verstappen that looked like pure old-school Hamilton.

He credited the reset to having his mum, Carmen Larbalestier, with him all weekend — dinners, movies, and a calmer rhythm away from the paddock noise. After a draining final year at Mercedes and a bumpy start in red, this felt less like fortune and more like a hard-earned release, with Hamilton quick to point to the work done behind the scenes at Ferrari. The result lifts him to fourth in the standings on 72 points, just three behind Charles Leclerc, and gives Maranello a timely shot of belief.

#F1 #LewisHamilton #Ferrari #CanadianGP #MontrealGP #MaxVerstappen

Mercedes got the spectacle in Montreal: George Rus

Mercedes got the spectacle in Montreal: George Russell and Kimi Antonelli went wheel-to-wheel in the Sprint and again in the Grand Prix, with neither looking willing to play the “good teammate”. It was thrilling from the outside, but Toto Wolff admitted it got “close a few times” — the kind of small mistakes (a lock-up, a late moment at the chicane) that can turn a headline duel into a double DNF.

The bigger issue is context. Antonelli’s fourth win of the season extends his points lead to 131, 43 clear of Russell, and Wolff noted Mercedes could “afford” the fight in Canada thanks to a pace cushion that won’t always be there. Add in radio noise about penalties, and the message is clear: enjoy the rivalry, but expect the pit wall to tighten the rules if the risk — or the cost in lap time — keeps climbing.

#F1 #Mercedes #CanadianGP #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #TeamOrders

George Russell has thrown his weight behind F1’s c

George Russell has thrown his weight behind F1’s current direction, rejecting calls to “fix” the 2026 rules package after a bruising, wheel-to-wheel Canada fight with Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli. Russell pointed to battles this season in Melbourne, China and Montreal as proof the cars and power units can still let drivers follow closely and race hard — even if his own scrap ended when the battery finally gave up.

It sets up a growing split with Max Verstappen, who’s warned the energy-management-heavy era risks becoming “mentally” unsustainable without a compromise. F1 is already edging toward change, with an in-principle plan to shift power delivery to a 60–40 split in favour of the combustion engine, though it still needs a vote. For now, Canada summed it up: the racing can be brilliant, and the system can still feel fragile.

#F1 #Formula1 #GeorgeRussell #MaxVerstappen #F12026 #CanadianGP

McLaren had the dream start in Montréal when Lando

McLaren had the dream start in Montréal when Lando Norris won the run to Turn 1 and put the papaya car in front, but the gamble on marginal conditions quickly turned into a trap once the race was stopped and the weather swung again. Norris didn’t reach the flag, and Oscar Piastri’s weekend got worse after a heavy hit with Alex Albon that ended Albon’s race; Piastri apologised but still finished outside the points. A prime chance to pressure Mercedes became a costly points haemorrhage.

Mercedes, meanwhile, left Canada looking less like they’re fighting the grid and more like they’re fighting each other. Kimi Antonelli’s win stretches his championship lead to 43 points over George Russell after a messy, uncompromising duel, while the stewards stayed busy: Russell received a €5000 suspended fine, and Nico Hülkenberg picked up a suspended stop-and-go plus a reprimand for a strange formation-lap/Safety Car line positioning error (with Liam Lawson also reprimanded). With rivals stumbling, the title tension is starting to live inside the Mercedes garage.

#F1 #CanadianGP #McLaren #MercedesF1 #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell

Oscar Piastri’s Canadian GP unravelled long before

Oscar Piastri’s Canadian GP unravelled long before Montreal’s hairpin, after McLaren’s opening call to start on intermediates backfired as conditions dried. A lap-one stop became damage limitation, and the recovery drive demanded ever-smaller margins on a surface Piastri said had “grip like nothing I’ve driven before.”

At the hairpin, a front-tyre lock-up sent the McLaren into the side of Alex Albon’s Williams, ending Albon’s race on the spot and earning Piastri a 10-second penalty that buried any points chance. Piastri owned his part in the “group call” on tyres and apologised, while Albon said he’d simply been caught out. Piastri still pointed to qualifying and improved feel versus Miami as small positives in an otherwise costly, bruising Sunday.

#F1 #CanadianGP #OscarPiastri #AlexAlbon #McLaren #Williams

Liam Lawson’s Canadian GP ended with a season-best

Liam Lawson’s Canadian GP ended with a season-best-equalling P7 for Racing Bulls, built on tidy execution and a seriously disciplined tyre call: 36 laps on softs to bring it home. In a year where calm Sundays have been rare for the team, Montreal looked like the kind of solid midfield result that steadies a campaign.

But the weekend comes with a small asterisk. After the pre-start confusion that led to three formation laps, Lawson received an FIA reprimand for how he handled the final formation lap when Nico Hülkenberg (Audi) was slow to launch. Lawson briefly moved ahead and the order wasn’t corrected by Safety Car Line 1, even though both cars ultimately started from their correct grid spots and the stewards said there was no impact on the competition. Hülkenberg took a suspended stop-and-go plus a reprimand, while Lawson’s first reprimand of 2026 is a reminder that five in a season triggers an automatic 10-place grid penalty.

#F1 #CanadianGP #LiamLawson #RacingBulls #FIA #MontrealGP

Lando Norris’s Montreal gamble lit up the start. W

Lando Norris’s Montreal gamble lit up the start. With drizzle on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, McLaren committed to intermediates and Norris rocketed past Kimi Antonelli and George Russell, grabbing clean air and pulling two seconds clear after a statement opening lap.

But the rain never really arrived. As the track improved, the inters turned from advantage to anchor, forcing an early switch back to slicks and wiping out the gain. Norris owned that the call ended up wrong, but defended it as a fine-margin roll of the dice that could’ve worked with “1% more rain” or a timely Safety Car. Oscar Piastri, who also started on inters, called it idiotic in hindsight, while Norris’s afternoon got worse with a reliability issue that ended any recovery. McLaren heads to Monaco for its 1000th GP weekend after a race that showed the upside of being bold—and how quickly it can bite.

#F1 #CanadianGP #LandoNorris #McLaren #MontrealGP #F1Strategy

F1’s next power-unit direction is edging toward a

F1’s next power-unit direction is edging toward a reset, with a 60/40 split between combustion and electrical deployment now “agreed in principle” for 2027, moving away from the near 50/50 path. Carlos Sainz wants the FIA and FOM to be tough and follow through, arguing the current cars demand too much energy management and not enough attacking, with electricity acting as an add-on rather than the foundation of a lap.

The catch is the process — and the politics. Any change still has to survive technical analysis, votes through the PU committees, and final FIA ratification, with manufacturers ready to push for whatever protects their interests. Max Verstappen warned the status quo could become “mentally not doable,” while Liam Lawson called it positive that drivers are being heard. Audi sits in the speculation zone, but Nico Hülkenberg underlined the key point: nothing is signed off yet, and qualifying is where today’s energy sensitivity bites hardest.

#F1 #Formula1 #PowerUnits #CarlosSainz #MaxVerstappen #FIA

George Russell has apologised after the FIA ruled

George Russell has apologised after the FIA ruled his post-retirement actions in Canada were “unsafe”, handing him a suspended €5,000 fine. Frustrated by a battery failure that ended his race on lap 29, Russell was caught on camera throwing his headrest onto the track — a split-second vent that the stewards said set a poor example given the risks to marshals and cars still running. Russell admitted he was embarrassed, apologised in the room, then followed up publicly: “Apologies to the marshals & FIA for making their job harder than it needed to be.”

The moment lands badly in a Mercedes season being defined by contrasts. While Russell sat out the finish, Kimi Antonelli won again — his fourth straight victory and a record start to his F1 win tally — leaving Russell 43 points behind after five races. Red Bull even piled on with a pointed social post, underlining how quickly reputations get tested when the pressure rises. Russell has owned the mistake; now he has to make sure the next headline is about performance, not composure.

#F1 #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #CanadianGP #MotorsportNews

Red Bull didn’t waste a second. Hours after George

Red Bull didn’t waste a second. Hours after George Russell’s Canadian GP ended in smoke and frustration, the team’s official account poked at his headrest-throw clip with “Borderline something something” — a pointed callback to Russell’s Abu Dhabi “borderline violence” line that’s lingered in the Verstappen feud since late 2024.

The flashpoint wasn’t even wheel-to-wheel with a rival: Russell retired after 29 laps with an engine issue just as a lively fight with team-mate Kimi Antonelli was brewing. The FIA fined Russell €5,000 (suspended for 12 months) for an “unsafe act”; he admitted he’d “lost his head”, said he was embarrassed, and apologised. It all landed on a weekend Mercedes should’ve been celebrating — Antonelli won again, making it four straight first-time victories and opening a 43-point lead over Russell. And with one clip going viral, Red Bull got exactly what it wanted: the narrative fight back in play.

#F1 #CanadianGP #GeorgeRussell #RedBullRacing #MercedesF1 #KimiAntonelli

Nico Hülkenberg avoided one of F1’s most dispropor

Nico Hülkenberg avoided one of F1’s most disproportionate punishments in Montreal after a messy formation-lap ordering mix-up. With the start delayed, drivers completed three formation laps, and on the third Hülkenberg was slow away from his grid box as Liam Lawson pulled ahead, leaving them effectively running in the wrong order through Safety Car Line 1 before both returned to their correct slots for the race start.

The rulebook normally demands a mandatory stop-and-go for failing to regain position by SC1, but the stewards called that outcome “extremely harsh” for an incident they judged minor and without competitive impact. Instead, Hülkenberg receives a suspended stop-and-go (only triggered by a repeat offence before the end of 2026) plus a reprimand — a warning that preserves the regulation without wrecking a race over something that ultimately changed nothing.

#F1 #CanadianGP #NicoHulkenberg #MontrealGP #FIA #Formula1News

Montreal didn’t just deliver a Mercedes one-two in

Montreal didn’t just deliver a Mercedes one-two in pace — it exposed how quickly this title fight is turning into an all-silver civil war. With the W17 clearly the class of the field, the Canadian GP became a straight teammate scrap: Antonelli’s strong start, Russell’s Lap 6 move for the lead, then a sequence of lock-ups and momentum swings as both pushed at the limit with no real external threat.

Antonelli briefly used traffic and sharp timing to flip the race back his way, only for Russell to reclaim it before a battery-related retirement ended his charge from the front. From there, Antonelli controlled the win — and the bigger message landed: even while trading mistakes, the Mercedes pair were still pulling away from Verstappen and Hamilton. Antonelli leaves Canada with a 43-point championship lead, and Mercedes leaves with a new problem to manage: when the car is this fast, the only rival that really matters is in the other side of the garage.

#F1 #CanadianGP #MercedesAMG #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell #F1News

Max Verstappen has fired back at Juan Pablo Montoy

Max Verstappen has fired back at Juan Pablo Montoya after the former F1 winner suggested drivers should be punished for criticising the 2026 regulations, even floating Super Licence penalty points for speaking out. Verstappen, already vocal that the new rules are “anti-racing” and heading toward “Mario Kart”, dismissed Montoya’s idea as nonsense and questioned why someone with ties to F1 management is given a platform in the paddock at all.

The spat lands as F1 debates whether it’s gone too far with the 2026 reset, with talk of a possible 2027 power split tweak back toward internal combustion. Montoya stayed unbothered when told he’d upset “the Verstappens”, while Verstappen underlined his value the same weekend with a hard-earned P3 in Canada behind Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton. The bigger fight isn’t just the rules, but whether driver criticism gets treated as vital feedback or something to silence.

#F1 #MaxVerstappen #JuanPabloMontoya #F12026 #CanadianGP #Formula1News

Lewis Hamilton’s best Ferrari Sunday yet came with

Lewis Hamilton’s best Ferrari Sunday yet came with a proper throwback edge in Montreal: P2 behind winner Kimi Antonelli, earned the hard way after spending the final stint in a tense, tactical scrap with Max Verstappen. Verstappen jumped him early with a decisive lap-nine move and the pattern was set — Red Bull’s straight-line punch versus Ferrari’s corner speed — before George Russell’s retirement turned it into a straight fight for the podium.

Hamilton talked about the constant calculations: tyre temps, battery management, and trying to manufacture an overtake while feeling down on power. On mediums, the “hunt” switched on, and on lap 62 he finally made it stick around the outside at Turn 1. Verstappen stayed glued to his gearbox to the flag, clean and relentless. Beyond the points, it was the kind of racing that made Hamilton’s first season in red feel real — and proved Ferrari is close enough to fight.

#F1 #CanadianGP #LewisHamilton #MaxVerstappen #Ferrari #Mercedes

George Russell has avoided an immediate hit to the

George Russell has avoided an immediate hit to the wallet after the Canadian GP, fined €5,000 for throwing his detached headrest onto the track as he retired. The FIA suspended the fine for 12 months after Russell apologised, admitted he was “extremely frustrated” and “embarrassed,” and accepted it “did not set a good example” — but any similar incident in the next year and the penalty becomes very real.

The flashpoint came after an early, tense Mercedes scrap with Kimi Antonelli before Russell’s W17 suffered what Toto Wolff called a likely battery/module failure. With Russell out and Antonelli taking another win — his fourth straight — the title picture inside Mercedes has tilted sharply, Antonelli now 43 points clear heading to Monaco, while Russell leaves Montreal on a behavioural warning as well as a reliability headache.

#F1 #CanadianGP #GeorgeRussell #KimiAntonelli #MercedesF1 #FIA

McLaren lined up in Montreal with a golden chance

McLaren lined up in Montreal with a golden chance from the second row as the weather hovered on the edge of chaos, then watched it unravel in minutes. Despite Norris and Piastri calling for slicks, the team committed to intermediates after a last-minute read that the grid felt wetter — only for the rain to stop as the formation lap began. Norris briefly led into Turn 1, but the inters bled pace on a drying track and both cars had to abort: Piastri pitted end of Lap 1, Norris end of Lap 2, dropping them into traffic and burning their qualifying advantage.

From there it spiralled. Norris retired with a suspected gearbox issue, while Piastri’s recovery ended with a lock-up and heavy contact with Albon, earning a 10-second penalty and leaving him 11th. No points, no consolation, and a self-inflicted Sunday that leaves McLaren 113 points behind Mercedes in the Constructors’ fight.

#F1 #CanadianGP #McLaren #LandoNorris #OscarPiastri #F1Strategy

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