CANADIAN GP - RACE - RE-CAP & RESULTS
The Ferrari driver was unchallenged through most of the race and, after defending his lead after an early safety car, was able to build a gap of more than seven seconds to second place driver Valtteri Bottas.
Vettel’s championship rival Lewis Hamilton was left chasing Daniel Ricciardo after the Red Bull jumped him in the pits.
Ricciardo had been running in a net fifth place when Hamilton ahead dived into the pits and put in an impressive lap before pitting himself and emerging ahead of the Mercedes. Hamilton quickly closed the gap to Ricciardo, who was on the harder compound of tyre. Moving back into fourth would mean he retained the championship lead by a single point, but Ricciardo proved difficult to overtake.
In the closing stages of the race, backmarkers became a problem for the reigning champion. Ricciardo appeared to have an easier time passing the backmarkers while Hamilton lost time. Even so, he finished less than a second behind the Red Bull.
Up ahead, Bottas had a Red Bull problem of his own in the early stages of the race, as Max Verstappen pushed to find a way through. Bottas put up a good defence, denying Verstappen second, and eventually pulled out a second gap to the Red Bull driver.
Verstappen settled with third, his second podium of the season.
Kimi Raikkonen in sixth was the last of the drivers to not be lapped by the leaders.
The race started with drama for Toro Rosso and Williams as Brendon Hartley and Lance Stroll came together on the opening lap. Stroll suffered a big slide and, as he corrected himself, sandwiched Hartley between himself and the wall. The collision took them both out of the race, and Hartley was sent to the hospital for checks, though he was later given the all clear.
Also running into problems early in the race were Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez, with Perez being sent wide after a collision and calling for Sainz to be disqualified from the race. The stewards deemed it a racing incident and both continued, with Sainz finishing eighth and Perez classified 14th.
One of the biggest talking points came at the end of the race, when the chequered flag was shown a lap early. Though the field continued to race until the end of lap 69, the planned duration, drivers were classified by their positions when the chequered flag was first shown at the end of lap 68. The only change came outside the top 10, with Perez dropping behind Kevin Magnussen, having passed the Haas on the “extra” lap.
Nico Hulkenberg finished best of the rest, ahead of Sainz, and Esteban Ocon.
Charles Leclerc, who once again had braking problems, came under pressure from Pierre Gasly in the closing stages of the race, but managed to hold onto 10th to take his third points finish of the season.
Gasly took 11th, ahead of Romain Grosjean, Perez, Magnussen, and Ericsson.
Stoffel Vandoorne and Sergey Sirotkin were the final finishers, with Fernando Alonso retiring due to an exhaust issue 40 laps into the race.
RESULTS:
1. Sebastian Vettel / Ferrari-Ferrari / Germany / + 25 Points
2. Valtteri Bottas / Mercedes-Mercedes / Finland / + 18 Points
3. Max Verstappen / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Netherlands / + 15 Points
4. Daniel Ricciardo / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Australia / + 12 Points
5. Lewis Hamilton / Mercedes-Mercedes / Great Britain / + 10 Points
6. Kimi Raikkonen / Ferrari-Ferrari / Finland / + 8 Points
7. Nico Hulkenberg / Renault-Renault / Germany / + 6 Points
8. Carlos Sainz / Renault-Renault / Spain / + 4 Points
9. Esteban Ocon / Force India-Mercedes / France / + 2 Points
10. Charles Leclerc / Sauber-Ferrari / Monaco / + 1 Point
11. Pierre Gasly / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / France
12. Romain Grosjean / Haas-Ferrari / France
13. Kevin Magnussen / Haas-Ferrari / Denmark
14. Sergio Perez / Force India-Mercedes / Mexico
15. Marcus Ericsson / Sauber-Ferrari / Sweden
16. Stoffel Vandoorne / McLaren-Renault / Belgium
17. Sergey Sirotkin / Williams-Mercedes / Russia
RETIRED - Fernando Alonso / McLaren-Renault / Spain / Exhaust
RETIRED - Lance Stroll / Williams-Mercedes / Canada / Collision
RETIRED - Brendon Hartley / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / New Zealand / Collision
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