2019 Canadian Grand Prix

2019 Canadian Grand Prix
Race 7 of 21 in the 2019 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Layout of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
Race details[1]
Date	9 June 2019
Official name	Formula 1 Pirelli Grand Prix du Canada 2019
Location	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Course	Street circuit
Course length	4.361 km (2.710 miles)
Distance	70 laps, 305.270 km (189.686 miles)
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 29.6 °C (85.3 °F); wind speeds negligible[2]
Attendance	307,000[3]
Pole position
Driver	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
Time	1:10.240
Fastest lap
Driver	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Time	1:13.078 on lap 69 (lap record)
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
Third	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2019 Canadian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Pirelli Grand Prix du Canada 2019) was a Formula One motor race held on 9 June 2019 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.^[1] It was the 7th round of the 2019 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was the 56th running of the Canadian Grand Prix, the 50th time the event had been included as a round of the Formula One World Championship since the inception of the series in 1950, and the 40th time that a World Championship had been held at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The race was won by Lewis Hamilton after a controversial penalty was given to race leader Sebastian Vettel.

Background

Championship standings before the race

Heading into the race Lewis Hamilton had a 17-point advantage over team mate Valtteri Bottas in the Drivers' Championship. In the Constructors' Championship it was Mercedes who held a 118-point advantage over Ferrari.^[4]

Entrants

The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race. However, Nicholas Latifi drove in the first practice session for Williams.^[5]

Mission Winnow, the title sponsor of Ferrari, was banned from this race as it did not comply with local laws governing tobacco sponsorship.^[6]

Qualifying

Sebastian Vettel won pole position ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Vettel's teammate Charles Leclerc. Max Verstappen could only finish 11th in Q2 following a crash at the final corner from Kevin Magnussen, who therefore failed to set a lap time in Q3, and started the race from the pit lane. Daniel Ricciardo qualified in 4th place for Renault, the team's highest qualifying position since Robert Kubica qualified 4th at the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix.^[7][8]

Qualifying classification

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying times			Grid
				Q1	Q2	Q3
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:11.200	1:11.142	1:10.240	1
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:11.518	1:11.010	1:10.446	2
3	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:11.214	1:11.205	1:10.920	3
4	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1:11.837	1:11.532	1:11.071	4
5	10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing-Honda	1:12.023	1:11.196	1:11.079	5
6	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:11.229	1:11.095	1:11.101	6
7	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:11.720	1:11.553	1:11.324	7
8	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	1:11.780	1:11.735	1:11.863	8
9	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren-Renault	1:11.750	1:11.572	1:13.981	111
10	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:12.107	1:11.786	No time	PL2
11	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	1:11.619	1:11.800	N/A	9
12	26	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:11.965	1:11.921	N/A	10
13	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	1:12.122	1:12.136	N/A	12
14	23	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:12.020	1:12.193	N/A	13
15	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1:12.109	No time	N/A	14
16	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	1:12.197	N/A	N/A	15
17	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	1:12.230	N/A	N/A	16
18	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	1:12.266	N/A	N/A	17
19	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1:13.617	N/A	N/A	18
20	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	1:14.393	N/A	N/A	19
107% time: 1:16.184
Source:[9][10]

Notes

• ^1 – Carlos Sainz Jr. received a three-place grid penalty for impeding Alexander Albon during qualifying.
• ^2 – Kevin Magnussen was required to start from the pit lane after having his chassis replaced due to a crash in qualifying. He also received a 15-place grid penalty: 10 places for his third Control Electronics (CE) and 5 places for an unscheduled gearbox change.

Race

Sebastian Vettel started on pole and maintained the lead from Lewis Hamilton, who started in second place. The opening lap saw Valtteri Bottas lose sixth place to Nico Hülkenberg, and saw Alexander Albon squeezed between Sergio Pérez and Antonio Giovinazzi at turn one, making contact with Giovinazzi and causing Albon to lose his front wing. Debris from Albon was blown back into the cockpit of Romain Grosjean's Haas, catching on the car's halo and causing Grosjean to go straight on at turn two whilst he removed the debris with his hand, losing positions. Albon pitted at the end of the lap for a replacement, having fallen to last place. His pace suffered for the rest of the race, and the team eventually opted to retire his damaged car on lap 60. Carlos Sainz Jr. was forced to pit at the end of the third lap after his brake calipers began to overheat due to a duct blockage. The problem was cleared and Sainz emerged from the pits in 19th place.

On lap nine, Lando Norris, who was running in eighth place, pulled over to the side of the pit exit after suffering a broken right-rear suspension. It later emerged that the McLaren's brakes had overheated and set on fire, burning through the suspension. This was unconnected to the problem encountered earlier by his teammate, which was caused by a helmet visor tear-off.^[11] No safety car was deployed, since Norris' car had stopped away from the track.

Hülkenberg made his first pit stop at the end of lap 16, allowing Bottas and Max Verstappen to take fourth and fifth place respectively. Vettel pitted at the end of lap 26, with Hamilton inheriting the race lead. Vettel emerged in third place ahead of Bottas and Verstappen. On the following lap, Giovinazzi spun at turn two, coming to a stop on the grass and avoiding the barriers. He was able to recover and continue racing. Hamilton pitted at the end of lap 28, coming out behind Vettel and handing the lead to Charles Leclerc. Bottas pitted on lap 30, emerging in sixth place behind the Renault of Daniel Ricciardo. Leclerc pitted on lap 33, resulting in Vettel re-taking the lead. Bottas made it past Ricciardo on lap 38 after struggling to overtake the Renault since his pit stop.

Hamilton had been closely following Vettel until turn three of lap 48, when Vettel went straight on over the grass, missing turn four. As the Ferrari re-joined the track, Hamilton was squeezed towards the outside wall and was forced to slow down to avoid a collision. A lap later, Verstappen was the last of the front-runners to make a pit stop, emerging in seventh place behind both Renaults. By lap 52 the Red Bull had made it up to fifth place.

On lap 57, Vettel was handed a five-second time penalty for the lap 48 incident, for re-entering the track unsafely and forcing another driver off the track. Over the next thirteen laps, Vettel attempted to build a five-second gap to Hamilton in second. Vettel ultimately crossed the finish line in first place, but was only 1.3 seconds ahead, meaning the victory was awarded to Hamilton. At the conclusion of the race, rather than park his car in parc ferme, Vettel pulled over much earlier in the pit lane and had to be collected by an official to attend the podium. On the way, Vettel removed the #1 sign from in front of Hamilton's car and moved it to the empty space where his car should have been parked.^[12] Ferrari announced it would appeal the penalty.^[13][14][15] On 21 June the FIA denied the appeal, stating that Ferrari had supplied "...no significant and relevant new elements which were unavailable to the parties at the time [the penalty was given],..."^[16] The incident has been described as controversial.^[17]

Race classification

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	70	1:29:07.084	2	25
2	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	70	+3.6581	1	18
3	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	70	+4.696	3	15
4	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	70	+51.043	6	132
5	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	70	+57.655	9	10
6	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	69	+1 lap	4	8
7	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	69	+1 lap	7	6
8	10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing-Honda	69	+1 lap	5	4
9	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	69	+1 lap	17	2
10	26	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	69	+1 lap	10	1
11	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren-Renault	69	+1 lap	11
12	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	69	+1 lap	15
13	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	12
14	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	14
15	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	69	+1 lap	16
16	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	68	+2 laps	18
17	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	68	+2 laps	PL
18	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	67	+3 laps	19
Ret	23	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	59	Collision damage	13
Ret	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	8	Suspension	8
Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) – 1:13.078 (lap 69)
Source:[10][18][19]

Notes

• ^1 – Sebastian Vettel completed the race first but received a 5-second penalty for re-joining the track unsafely and forcing Lewis Hamilton off the track.
• ^2 – Includes one point for fastest lap.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Lewis Hamilton 162 2 Valtteri Bottas 133 3 Sebastian Vettel 100 4 Max Verstappen 88 5 Charles Leclerc 72 Source:[20]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 295 2 Ferrari 172 3 Red Bull Racing-Honda 124 4 McLaren-Renault 30 3 5 Renault 28 Source:[20]

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

References