Crash ended Norris’s best points-scoring streak · RaceFans

Lando Norris was on the ninth-longest points-scoring run by a driver in System 1 historical past heading into final weekend’s race.

However the McLaren driver’s run got here to an finish when he retired after a collision with group mate Oscar Piastri.

His streak of factors scores started final 12 months after the Austrian Grand Prix – coincidentally the following spherical on the calendar. He scored factors in 22 consecutive races.

Regardless of that, Norris was formally listed as a finisher, as he’d coated greater than 90% of the race distance. The identical was additionally 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 categorized, his subsequent five-second time penalty would have been transformed right into a grid drop for the following occasion. As a substitute he recorded his thirty fifth consecutive categorized end.

Even earlier than that collision each McLaren drivers have been heading in the right direction to overlook the rostrum for less than the second time every this season. This was the primary time in 11 races the rostrum didn’t characteristic a McLaren driver and the primary time in 10 occasions neither of them began from the entrance row.

George Russell capitalised, claiming pole place for the second 12 months in a row on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. He transformed that into victory and added the quickest lap, scoring the second ‘hat trick’ of his profession.

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Russell scored his fourth win, placing him degree with Williams driver Carlos Sainz Jnr plus Dan Gurney, Bruce McLaren and Eddie Irvine. He took his seventh pole, which places him degree with Jacques Laffite (System One Administration would name it his sixth, as they don’t depend his 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix pole, and would due to this fact additionally name this his first ‘hat trick’).

George Russell, Mercedes, Interlagos, 2022 — Russell’s first win was additionally his first hat-trick

He have Mercedes their first win of the season and fifth within the Canadian Grand Prix. McLaren maintain the file with 13, and scored their final win on this race with Lewis Hamilton in 2012. Russell crossed the ending line forward of Verstappen, who got here inside 0.228 seconds (and two unsuccessful protests) of a fourth consecutive Canadian Grand Prix win.

For the primary time in 5 rounds, Verstappen didn’t lead a lap. 5 drivers did, nevertheless, probably the most since final 12 months’s Italian Grand Prix.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli led a grand prix for the second time in his profession (he spent 10 laps in entrance at Suzuka) and clinched his first podium end. He’s the third-youngest driver to face on the podium, behind Verstappen and Lance Stroll, and did it at his tenth try.

Yuki Tsunoda has appeared in 10 instances as many races. Earlier than the weekend started he remarked it “feels a bit loopy” to have reached 100 race weekend participations already. Which may be partly as a result of he didn’t begin three of them. He was unable to take the beginning at Monza in 2021 and 2023, and Jeddah 2022, and so didn’t really contest a full season till his fourth 12 months of competitors.

Fernando Alonso scored factors for the second race in a row, as did Nico Hulkenberg. He delivered his group’s first back-to-back factors end for the reason that identical two races – Spain and Canada – in 2023, once they competed as Alfa Romeo. It’s their first consecutive factors finishes underneath the Sauber title since their final two appearances earlier than that rebranding, within the 2018 Brazilian and Abu Dhabi grands prix.

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Lastly, Russell’s newest win got here on an incredible day for his unique F1 group mate Robert Kubica, who he teamed up with at Williams in 2019. Kubica received the Le Mans 24 Hours for Ferrari’s buyer group AF Corse with group mate Ye Yifei and Phil Hanson. Poland’s solely grand prix winner scored his sole F1 victory on the Canadian Grand Prix in 2008 and would absolutely have taken extra had it not been for the horrible accidents he suffered in his 2011 rally crash.