Lando Norris was on the ninth-longest points-scoring run by a driver in Formula 1 history heading into last weekend’s race.
But the McLaren driver’s run came to an end when he retired after a collision with team mate Oscar Piastri.His streak of points scores began last year after the Austrian Grand Prix – coincidentally the next round on the calendar. He scored points in 22 consecutive races.
Despite that, Norris was officially listed as a finisher, as he’d covered more than 90% of the race distance. The same was also the case when he retired in Austria following a collision with Max Verstappen.
That was a small upside for Norris, as if he hadn’t been classified, his subsequent five-second time penalty would have been converted into a grid drop for the next event. Instead he recorded his 35th consecutive classified finish.
Even before that collision both McLaren drivers were on course to miss the podium for only the second time each this season. This was the first time in 11 races the podium did not feature a McLaren driver and the first time in 10 events neither of them started from the front row.
George Russell capitalised, claiming pole position for the second year in a row at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. He converted that into victory and added the fastest lap, scoring the second ‘hat trick’ of his career.
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Russell scored his fourth win, putting him level with Williams driver Carlos Sainz Jnr plus Dan Gurney, Bruce McLaren and Eddie Irvine. He took his seventh pole, which puts him level with Jacques Laffite (Formula One Management would call it his sixth, as they do not count his 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix pole, and would therefore also call this his first ‘hat trick’).
For the first time in five rounds, Verstappen did not lead a lap. Five drivers did, however, the most since last year’s Italian Grand Prix.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli led a grand prix for the second time in his career (he spent 10 laps in front at Suzuka) and clinched his first podium finish. He is the third-youngest driver to stand on the rostrum, behind Verstappen and Lance Stroll, and did it at his 10th attempt.
Yuki Tsunoda has appeared in 10 times as many races. Before the weekend began he remarked it “feels a bit crazy” to have reached 100 race weekend participations already. That may be partly because he didn’t start three of them. He was unable to take the start at Monza in 2021 and 2023, and Jeddah 2022, and so didn’t actually contest a full season until his fourth year of competition.
Fernando Alonso scored points for the second race in a row, as did Nico Hulkenberg. He delivered his team’s first back-to-back points finish since the same two races – Spain and Canada – in 2023, when they competed as Alfa Romeo. It is their first consecutive points finishes under the Sauber name since their last two appearances before that rebranding, in the 2018 Brazilian and Abu Dhabi grands prix.
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Finally, Russell’s latest win came on a great day for his original F1 team mate Robert Kubica, who he teamed up with at Williams in 2019. Kubica won the Le Mans 24 Hours for Ferrari’s customer team AF Corse with team mate Ye Yifei and Phil Hanson. Poland’s only grand prix winner scored his sole F1 victory at the Canadian Grand Prix in 2008 and would surely have taken more had it not been for the terrible injuries he suffered in his 2011 rally crash.
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Jere (@jerejj)
19th June 2025, 7:58
Andrea Antonelli became the first Italian to finish in the top three since Jarno Trulli in the 2009 Japanese GP.
Alexander Albon’s second consecutive Canadian GP retirement.
Thanks to the late SC period, Nico Hulkenberg was the last to finish the race on the lead lap, which he previously did in the 2024 Australian GP, not to mention also under neutralization, albeit VSC on that occasion in what was the most recent race to end under neutralized conditions until the last race.
George Russell became the fourth different driver, while Mercedes became the third different team to win a 2025 race.
A secondary note regarding Yuki Tsunoda is that even though he’s suffered DNS three times, he nevertheless also competed in F1 full-time throughout his first three seasons, not to mention he participated in those three events per se, which matters in the end for the overall stat.
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
19th June 2025, 10:43
Not sure it is a record but now in 3 consecutive races – 3 different drivers scored a hattrick.
Monaco: Norris won starting from pole with the fastest lap
Spain: Piastri won starting from pole with the fastest lap
Canada: Russell won starting from pole with the fastest lap
If Piastri hadn’t beaten Max to pole by 0.034 seconds in Imola it would have been 4 consecutive races – 4 different drivers.
Jere (@jerejj)
19th June 2025, 11:25
A nice coincidence.
MarcusAurelius (@marcusaurelius)
19th June 2025, 13:46
Is it? Maybe it shows how close the field is and that car + setup will get you Pole, FL and Win..
ryanoceros (@ryanoceros)
19th June 2025, 15:55
More than anything it shows the advantage of running up front in clean air.
Jere (@jerejj)
19th June 2025, 19:19
@ryanoceros Indeed & especially in such a tight field with following getting harder season by season within stable technical regulations.
AlanD
19th June 2025, 22:44
To me, the clearest point to come fro that stat/coincidence/whatever is how artificial the point for fastest lap used to be. Clearly the people recording fastest lap now are doing it on merit under proper racing conditions, not because they pitted a few laps from the end to slap on fresh tyres.
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
19th June 2025, 12:28
“George Russell capitalised, claiming pole position for the second year in a row at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. He converted that into victory and added the fastest lap, scoring the second ‘hat trick’ of his career.”
Officially this is Russell’s first hattrick – in Brazil 2022 he started the main race from pole but back then the winner of the Sprint Qualifying got the official count of pole position which was Kevin Magnussen.
Which is reality a bit weird as when you are fastest in qualifying but have a grid penalty you also do not get the Pole but the driver that will start the Sunday race from Pole position gets it – Russell started from pole position as he won the Sprint race but didn’t get the pole counted officially.
paulgilb (@paulgilb)
19th June 2025, 20:08
Leclerc may have had a disappointing qualifying but he still did better than in 2023 and 2024 (qualified 11th on both occasions).
Antonelli is the first driver to score their maiden podium in Canada since his fellow countryman Fisichella in 1997 (also on 15 June in a race that finished neutralised).
Just as in 2011, an English McLaren driver started 7th, collided with his team-mate on the pit straight, and was at one point the last-placed classified driver; then the race was won by an Englishman who was not confirmed as the winner until over 4 hours after the race started.
Just as in 2014, the team that comfortably led the Constructors’ standings had their worst race of the season, with the race finishing behind the safety car following a collision on the pit straight.
Antonelli is the youngest podium finisher whose mother was born somewhere other than Belgium.
The two drivers to have scored podiums at a younger age than Antonelli between them have citizenship of Belgium, Netherlands, and Canada, which are the 3 countries to have held GPs where Verstappen and Russell have finished 1-2 (in either order).
All teams have now had at least one (possibly still classified) non-finish this year.
The podium did not feature any team that featured on the podium in the previous race – the last time this happened was Russell’s previous win in Las Vegas 2024 (which was also the last time McLaren did not finish on the podium).
Mercedes keep alive their run of at least 1 pole every year since 2012 – only 1 shy of Ferrari’s record from 1994 to 2008 inclusive.
Norris’s first non-scoring GP since Austria 2024 – another race where he was involved a late collision and Russell won.
Norris’s first non-scoring weekend since Las Vegas 2023, ending the 4th longest such streak (Piastri’s unbroken 36-weekend streak is #3).
Thanks to statsf1 and the official F1 site for some of these.