As it happened: 2025 Canadian Grand Prix

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Antonelli, Piastri, Ocon, Leclerc, Sainz, Gasly and Stroll have all been noted for potential Safety Car infringements.

Russell wins the Canadian Grand Prix! Verstappen second and Antonelli takes his first podium finish.

Verstappen is accusing Russell of “aggressively braking.” Russell claims Verstappen “overtook me under the Safety Car.”

Safety Car deployed. McLaren pit Piastri and he narrowly avoids emerging into the path of two other cars.

Norris hits Piastri! He’s out!

L62 The closest battle at the front of the field is between the championship-leading McLaren drivers for fourth place.

L59 Russell’s lead over Verstappen is down to 1.5s as they emerge from a queue of traffic. Antonelli has done well through the backmarkers and gained a 1.6s

Lawson has retired. His team tell him it’s to preserve his power unit.

L53 Leclerc pits from the lead. Russell leads Verstappen by 2.2 seconds, Antonelli is 1.4s behind him and he has Piastri within DRS range. Norris is closing on them, three seconds behind.

Stroll has been given a 10-second time penalty for forcing Gasly off.

Leclerc now leads but he must pit again. Albon has pulled off behind the barrier at turn 10. A brief yellow flag is cleared.

L47 Norris pits from the lead and switches back to the hard tyres.

The stewards have noted Stroll for forcing Gasly off approaching the chicane.

L46 Piastri pits for a set of hards. Hamilton is in too.

Russell pits and rejoins ahead of Verstappen. Piastri now leads Norris.

L38 Verstappen pits with 32 laps to go. Mercedes bring Antonelli in on the next lap and he narrowly fails to jump ahead of the Red Bull.

Hamilton: “Yeah I’m nowhere in this race mate, I don’t know what’s happened.” Adami tells him: “Pace is good, considering the damage.”

L35 Half-distance. Russell has his lead over Verstappen up to four seconds.

“Why have we boxed? Why did we box?” asks Leclerc. “We are on Plan B,” Bozzi replies. “Yeah but I was just telling you tyres were fine,” answers Leclerc.

L30 McLaren do the logical thing and pit Norris on the next lap.

L29 Verstappen wasn’t able to pass Leclerc before the Ferrari driver pitted. He takes another set of hards so he will definitely make a second pit stop.

L26 Russell passes Leclerc for second place. He’s 2.2 seconds behind Norris.

Bozzi: “Plan B.” Leclerc: “I think Plan C.” Bozzi: “Copy.”

L24 Albon pits.

L23 Norris is still leading on his hards, three seconds ahead of Leclerc. Russell is about to catch the Ferrari driver though, there’s just 1.6 seconds in it, and Verstappen is closing on him. Antonelli is another five-and-a-half seconds behind. Piastri is seemingly unable to do much about the Mercedes ahead of him.

Urwin: “Box this lap.” Albon: “No don’t box now, don’t box now. Forget boxing now. You can’t do all that, then box.”

L21 Albon: “I don’t really know why you don’t listen to me. It really annoys me.”

L19 Albon, running long on his mediums, is passed by Ocon, still on his original set of hards, and Hamilton.

Alonso suffered a slow pit stop and has fallen to 17th.

L17 Piastri pits from the lead. Norris and Leclerc now leading on hards. Piastri rejoins seventh with Hulkenberg and Antonelli immediately in front of him.

L15 Mercedes pit Antonelli who rejoins behind Verstappen. The Red Bull driver is surprisingly still behind Hulkenberg – perhaps bringing his hard tyres in very carefully in the hope they’ll last a long way. Red Bull have knowledge of their performance as Tsunoda has run them since the start.

Joseph to Norris: “Russell has pitted. This is plan A. We need one of those amazing races from you here.”

L14 Mercedes react and bring Russell in. He rejoins in seventh with Hulkenberg between him and Verstappen. Antonelli now leads.

L13 Verstappen emerges ahead of the queue developing behind Colapinto, just as Ocon on hards moves ahead of his team mate Bearman on mediums. Ocon then picks off Hadjar for 12th.

L12 Antonelli challenges Verstappen for second place so the Red Bull driver pits.

Lambiase: “Thoughts on tyres, please, Max?” Verstappen: “Not good. Very fragile.”

L11 Norris is now breathing down Alonso’s neck for sixth place and passes him out of turn 10 with ease. Alonso stays out, though.

Leclerc: “These tyres are not great.” Bozzi: “We’re seeing higher deg than expected on medium as well, with graining.”

L10 The gaps are starting to open up between the medium tyre runners. Colapinto in 10th is starting to look vulnerable to Hadjar.

Tsunoda is already more than a pit stop behind the leaders so he’s not going to be any help to Verstappen for now. He’s on the cusp of dropping out of DRS range of Sainz, both on the hard tyres.

L6 Verstappen spent a few laps within DRS range of Russell but has dropped back now. He pulled out of Russell’s slipstream at the start of the lap so this may be tactical.

L4 Verstappen staying close to Russell for now. Stallard tells Piastri “we are going to plan B target lap.”

Hulkenberg is the next big mover, up two places to ninth. Albon went off at the turn eight-nine chicane and is down to 12th.

The Canadian Grand Prix is go! Russell keeps his lead from Verstappen, Antonelli takes third place off Piastri.

The drivers are taking their places on the grid ready for the start.

The cars peel off the grid and embark on their formation lap.

The drivers’ tyre choices for the start of the race are as follows: Everyone is on mediums except for Norris, Leclerc and the last seven drivers in the line-up on hards. Those are Ocon, Bortoleto, Sainz, Stroll, Tsunoda, Lawson and Gasly.

Two drivers will start the race from the pit lane: Liam Lawson and Pierre Gasly, who originally qualified 18th and 19th. Here’s the final starting grid.

Norris will need to gain ground early in the race as will the driver he shares the fourth row with, Charles Leclerc. He has looked quick but scruffy in his Ferrari – he crashed in first practice and made a mistake at turn six on his flying lap in Q3.

Championship leader Oscar Piastri lines up third and has a great opportunity to extend his points lead. His closest threat, team mate Lando Norris, starts only seventh. The pair are separated by Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso – the latter having done a superb job in qualifying in his Aston Martin.

We have the same front row for this race for the second year in a row: George Russell is on pole position ahead of Max Verstappen. And there’s no love lost between the two of them following their collision at the last round in Spain.

We’re one hour away from the start of the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix.

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