2023 Canadian Grand Prix

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Canada  2023 Canadian Grand Prix
Race details[1]
Race 8 of 22 in the 2023 Formula One season
Île Notre-Dame (Circuit Gilles Villeneuve).svg
Date 18 June 2023
Official name Formula 1 Pirelli Grand Prix du Canada 2023
Location Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Course Street circuit
Course length 4.361 km (2.710 mi)
Distance 70 laps, 305.270 km (189.686 mi)
Weather Partly cloudy
Attendance 345,000[2]
Pole position
Driver
Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT
Time 1:25.858
Fastest lap
Driver Mexico Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT
Time 1:14.481 on lap 70
Podium
First
Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT
Second
Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes
Third
Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2023 Canadian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Pirelli Grand Prix du Canada 2023) was a Formula One motor race, which was held on 18 June 2023 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The race was won by Max Verstappen, who started from pole position and led the entirety of the race, behind Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton. Verstappen's victory marked Red Bull Racing's 100th victory in Formula One.

A record 345,000 people attended over the three days.[3]

Background

The event was held across the weekend of 16–18 June 2023.[1] It was the eighth round of the 2023 Formula One World Championship. After the fires in the region, the Grand Prix was in danger of being cancelled.[4][5][6] However, on 9 June, Formula One Management made a statement that the Grand Prix would continue as planned.[7]

The Aston Martin team brought major upgrades to the race, overhauling its sidepods and floor.[8]

Championship standings before the race

Max Verstappen was the Drivers' Championship leader after the seventh round, the Spanish Grand Prix, with 170 points, 53 ahead of Sergio Pérez in second, with Fernando Alonso in third, 18 points behind Pérez. In the Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing led Mercedes by 135 points and Aston Martin by 153.[9]

Entrants

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See also: 2023 Formula One World Championship § Entries

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race.[10]

Tyre choices

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Further information: Formula One tyres

Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C3, C4 and C5 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively) for teams to use at the event.[11]

Practice

The weekend had three practice sessions, two on 16 June 2023 and one on 17 June 2023. The first practice session started at 13:30 local time (UTC−4), but was abandoned few minutes of running after a CCTV failure at the venue. The session was initially stopped to recover the Alpine car of Pierre Gasly, which had stopped on track. Ultimately only twelve drivers set a time in the much curtailed first session with Valtteri Bottas of Alfa Romeo fastest ahead of Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso in the two Aston Martin cars. The FIA also announced the intention to commence the second practice session at 16:30 local time (UTC−4) rather than the originallly planned time of 17:00 (UTC−4), also extending the length of the session from the planned 60 minutes to 90 minutes in order to give teams a chance to make up for some of the lost running in the first session.[12]

The second practice, which ran for 90 minutes, ended with Lewis Hamilton leading the session ahead of teammate George Russell and Carlos Sainz Jr.. The session was red-flagged twice due to issues with Esteban Ocon and Nico Hülkenberg's vehicles.[13]

The third practice session started on 17 June 2023 at 12:30 local time (UTC−4). The session was red-flagged after crash of Carlos Sainz Jr.. Verstappen was fastest ahead of Leclerc and Alonso.[14]

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on 17 June 2023, at 16:00 local time (UTC−4).[1]

Qualifying report

Rain, initially reported by Logan Sargeant during Q1, befell the second and third session.

Only three minutes after Q1 began, Zhou Guanyu reported an issue with his Ferrari power unit and caused a red flag with a stranded and powerless car on track. However, during the red flag period, his car was able to restart and he went back into the pits. However, he did not set a further time, so he started at the back of the grid. Max Verstappen topped Q1 ahead of Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, with Carlos Sainz Jr. impeding Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly, the latter who was shown to be furious over the team radio. His impeding resulted in a three-place drop for the Ferrari driver. Gasly joined Zhou, Yuki Tsunoda, teammate Nyck de Vries and Sargeant as the drivers all out of Q1.

It was during Q2 that the rain started to fall. As such, drivers used intermediate tyres; Sergio Pérez and Lance Stroll made contact with the wall, and joined Charles Leclerc, Kevin Magnussen and Valtteri Bottas as the drivers out of Q2. Alexander Albon set the fastest lap of the session, but could not set a time in Q3. Hamilton set a time for 10th.

Verstappen began Q3 with a slide off the final corner, with Oscar Piastri going fully off the exit of turn 6 and crashing out. This resulted in the second red flag of the day as Nico Hülkenberg set a time as it went out. The session was soon resumed. Before penalties, Hülkenberg's time for second place gave Haas its second-highest qualification result after Magnussen's pole at the 2022 São Paulo Grand Prix. He was behind polesitter Verstappen and ahead of Alonso.[15] Hülkenberg was surprised with his performance, saying that it "comes a bit unexpected," but expected a challenge during the race.[16]

Hülkenberg was summoned to the stewards for a red flag infraction, dropping him three places;[17] Tsunoda and Stroll were also given three-place drops for impeding.[18]

Qualifying classification

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 1 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT 1:20.851 1:19.092 1:25.858 1
2 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Haas-Ferrari 1:22.730 1:20.305 1:27.102 51
3 14 Spain Fernando Alonso Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 1:21.481 1:19.776 1:27.286 2
4 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:21.554 1:20.426 1:27.627 3
5 63 United Kingdom George Russell Mercedes 1:21.798 1:20.098 1:27.893 4
6 31 France Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 1:22.114 1:20.406 1:27.945 6
7 4 United Kingdom Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.998 1:19.347 1:28.046 7
8 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 1:22.248 1:19.856 1:29.294 112
9 81 Australia Oscar Piastri McLaren-Mercedes 1:22.190 1:19.659 1:31.349 8
10 23 Thailand Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes 1:21.938 1:18.725 No time 9
11 16 Monaco Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:21.843 1:20.615 N/A 10
12 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT 1:22.151 1:20.959 N/A 12
13 18 Canada Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 1:22.677 1:21.484 N/A 163
14 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:22.351 1:21.678 N/A 13
15 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:22.332 1:21.821 N/A 14
16 22 Japan Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT 1:22.746 N/A N/A 194
17 10 France Pierre Gasly Alpine-Renault 1:22.886 N/A N/A 15
18 21 Netherlands Nyck de Vries AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT 1:23.137 N/A N/A 17
19 2 United States Logan Sargeant Williams-Mercedes 1:23.337 N/A N/A 18
20 24 China Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 1:23.342 N/A N/A 20
107% time: 1:26.5105
Source:[19][20]

Notes

Race

The race was held on 18 June 2023, at 14:00 local time (UTC−4).[1]

Race report

As the race began, polesitter Max Verstappen was challenged by Lewis Hamilton as the cars went into the first corner. Soon, Verstappen would create a lead which he would keep throughout the 70 laps ran during the race. Meanwhile, Esteban Ocon overtook Nico Hülkenberg, who would drop down to fifteenth from his starting position of fifth, while Hülkenberg's teammate Kevin Magnussen brushed the wall and continued on. Logan Sargeant retired from the race, his first retirement of the season. This resulted in a brief virtual safety car period, allowing the recovery of the stranded Williams car. Soon, George Russell hit the wall on turn nine, necessitating a full safety car period. All drivers, including Russell, who received a new front wing and repairs to his car, went into the pit lane for their stops. The only drivers who did not stop were the Ferrari duo of Charles Leclerc and Sainz. During this period, a close call between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso was reported, and Lando Norris for an unsafe release. All three drivers were investigated with no further action taken, though Norris was given a five-second penalty for unsportsmanlike behaviour; he had slowed down during the safety car period.

As the safety car period ended, Verstappen sped ahead of Hamilton, with Alonso unable to fight the two. Alonso would regain second place. A brief yellow flag was observed for a collision between Magnussen and Nyck de Vries. Alexander Albon, on seventh position and having set the hards on his earlier stop, began to hold up Russell, Ocon, Valtteri Bottas and Norris behind him as Russell retired from eighth place and Norris went for Bottas on the final corner, sending him up to ninth; the penalty Norris had received earlier would drop him outside the points into thirteenth. Albon's defending awarded him with the driver of the day.

Verstappen won the race, giving Red Bull its 100th Formula One victory, which also marks Adrian Newey's 200th win in Formula One; his teammate Sergio Pérez on sixth position set the fastest lap. Verstappen commented on his team's 100th win, "It is amazing, I never expected to be on these kind of numbers myself as well, so we keep enjoying it and we keep working hard but this is another great day."[22] In addition, his victory meant Verstappen has now matched three-time World Champion Ayrton Senna's number of victories at 41.[23]

Race classification

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT 70 1:33:58.348 1 25
2 14 Spain Fernando Alonso Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 70 +9.570 2 18
3 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 70 +14.168 3 15
4 16 Monaco Charles Leclerc Ferrari 70 +18.648 10 12
5 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 70 +21.540 11 10
6 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT 70 +51.028 12 91
7 23 Thailand Alexander Albon Williams-Mercedes 70 +1:00.813 9 6
8 31 France Esteban Ocon Alpine-Renault 70 +1:01.692 6 4
9 18 Canada Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes 70 +1:04.402 16 2
10 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 70 +1:04.432 14 1
11 81 Australia Oscar Piastri McLaren-Mercedes 70 +1:05.101 8
12 10 France Pierre Gasly Alpine-Renault 70 +1:05.249 15
13 4 United Kingdom Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 70 +1:08.3632 7
14 22 Japan Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT 70 +1:13.423 19
15 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Haas-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 5
16 24 China Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 20
17 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 69 +1 lap 13
18 21 Netherlands Nyck de Vries AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT 69 +1 lap 17
Ret 63 United Kingdom George Russell Mercedes 53 Brakes 4
Ret 2 United States Logan Sargeant Williams-Mercedes 6 Oil leak 18
Fastest lap: Mexico Sergio Pérez (Red Bull Racing- Honda RBPT) – 1:14.481 (lap 70)
Source:[20][24][25]

Notes

  • ^1 – Includes one point for fastest lap.[25]
  • ^2 – Lando Norris finished ninth, but he received a five-second time penalty for unsportsmanlike behaviour.[24]

Championship standings after the race

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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