Russell retires from lead in Canada
George Russell retired from the lead of Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix on lap 30 of 68 after his Mercedes slowed at the Turn 8/9 chicane with a suspected power unit issue, handing the lead to team-mate Kimi Antonelli. The pair had been fighting each other for victory before the failure, prompting Mercedes to warn them over team radio: “So, we’ve got to tidy up this racing. We need to keep it clean. So if we can’t keep it tidy then we’ll have to stop you racing. Message to both cars.” Russell was also noted by the stewards after throwing his headrest out of the car when he came to a halt.
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Lando Norris says the threat of rain at the Canadian Grand Prix could make the race “insanely tricky” because the drivers have not yet experienced the 2026 cars in wet conditions. Norris said: "I have no idea. We've never driven in the rain. I don't think anyone knows how difficult it's going to be to drive these cars around. I think it could be an insanely tricky race. It's difficult enough to get temperature into a soft tyre, let alone when it's 10 degrees colder tomorrow and we're going to have inters and wets on the car."
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Leclerc on Canadian GP weekend problems in wet conditions
Charles Leclerc says his Canadian Grand Prix weekend has been a "disaster" so far and expects the forecast cold, wet conditions in Montreal to make his problems worse. Leclerc said: "It's been a disaster. From yesterday's brake problems to the issues putting tyres in the right window today – only on the last Q3 lap did the tyres come closer to the operational window and work a little better – the whole weekend has been a disaster. It's not the same conditions. Unfortunately, with the problems I've had so far, which are temperature problems, with the rain I think it'll be worse."
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Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies says Max Verstappen is “at the heart of the project” and that he is not concerned about the four-time champion leaving the team, amid renewed speculation about Verstappen’s future and reports linking him to McLaren after race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase moved there. Mekies said: "Look, no, I'm not concerned with Max following GP. We always have this joke. We are not going to ask Max every week if he's going to stay. Max is telling us he's happy at Red Bull. He is involved in every strategic decision we are making. He is at the heart of the project. He is pushing with us and we both want the same thing: getting back to a more competitive package. And he is central to that."
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Berra on full wets potentially beating intermediates in Montréal
Pirelli chief F1 engineer Simone Berra says a wet Canadian Grand Prix in the low temperatures forecast for Montréal would be a “perfect storm”, and believes full wet tyres could be the better choice over intermediates in those conditions. Berra said: "Here, I think is the perfect storm, I would say, because we have cold temperatures, a low-energy circuit. If it rains here, it will be complicated, because looking at the forecast, they expect to have 11, 12 degrees' air temperatures. I think it would be more tricky on the intermediates, a little bit less tricky with the wet... it is a possibility that we could end up that the wet is – for one time in the last years, faster than intermediates... Personally, I would use the wet tyres."
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Stella on wet-weather test advantage for Ferrari and Red Bull
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella says Ferrari and Red Bull will have an advantage over McLaren and Mercedes at the Canadian Grand Prix because they have already done Pirelli wet-weather testing this year, with rain forecast in Montreal. Stella said: "I do think that this is an advantage, because there's uncertainty in relation to the behaviour of the power unit. In the wet, things deviate even more from what you anticipate and from what you can simulate. So the power unit remains certainly an element of variability that is concerning. And if you have tested with it, you might have known a little bit more. Likewise, from a tyre point of view, it's unclear whether the tyres will work within their window."
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Stella on concern over 2026 power units in wet conditions
McLaren boss Andrea Stella says the behaviour of Formula 1’s 2026-spec power units in wet conditions is a “concerning” variable ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, with only a few teams having tested in the wet and McLaren yet to do so this season. Stella said: "In terms of the wet session, there are a few teams that have had the possibility to test and drive in wet conditions. I do think that this is an advantage, because there is uncertainty in relation to the behaviour of the power unit. We see that talk pretty much in every debrief in dry conditions after a few events… So the power unit remains certainly an element of variability that is concerning, and if you have tested with it [in wet conditions], you might know a little bit more."
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Wolff on Mercedes drivers not expecting space in wheel-to-wheel fights
Toto Wolff says Mercedes has told George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli that neither should expect the other to leave space in wheel-to-wheel fights, after their heated battle in the Canadian Grand Prix Sprint. Wolff said: "We agreed that we trust them, they know how to push. But in any case, no one is expecting the other one to leave space, because it's too important."
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Stella on 2027 power-unit rule tweaks
McLaren boss Andrea Stella says everyone in Formula 1 will lose if manufacturers block plans to tweak the power-unit rules for 2027, including a shift away from a 50/50 split between combustion and electrical power towards 60/40. Andrea Stella said: "This is a general interest that should prevail over the particular [self] interests, because if we don't have a good sport, if we don't preserve the value of the business, the value of F1, everyone will have a loss. So I do hope that the conversation ongoing will lead to a successful position because this will overcome, finally, some of the limitations that are fundamentally inherent to this hardware that we are using at the moment."
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Lawson on racing Perez after Montreal sprint clash
Liam Lawson says he has to be “careful” racing Sergio Perez because the Cadillac driver is “quite aggressive”, after their latest clash in Saturday’s Montreal sprint race in which Perez was penalised for forcing Lawson off the track while defending. Lawson said: "Obviously [I was] trying to come through the field from the back. And I just have to be careful when racing him. He's quite aggressive. So in the end, he pushed me off, and I just decided not to race him anymore. It's not really worth it for no points. But yeah, it seems to be a thing when I race with him."
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Piastri on unknowns over wet-running in Canada
Oscar Piastri says the Canadian Grand Prix could be a “voyage into the unknown” with forecasts suggesting a wet race in Montreal and few drivers and teams having experience of the 2026 cars in wet conditions. Piastri said: "We did a lot of preparation in Miami, trying to understand [running the power unit in wet conditions] and I think the conclusion was we don't know what's going to happen. And when you've got a few hundred, if not thousands, of the best engineers in the world that don't know what's going to happen, it's an interesting place to be in. So I'm sure it's the same up and down the grid, but there is definitely going to be a large element of the unknown."
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Verstappen on lack of Red Bull feedback in Canadian qualifying
Max Verstappen said Red Bull gave him “no feedback” during a “confusing” Canadian Grand Prix qualifying session as he ended up sixth on the grid in Montreal. Verstappen said: "Every lap I did, I went slower on the straights, I was gaining lap time in the corners and then on the straights I was losing more than I was gaining. I asked a few times [for feedback from the team], but I heard nothing. I got nothing back, no feedback, so I just drove laps, but it wasn't too good."
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