After a break well necessary for the grid, Formula 1 is back this week with the Canadian Grand Prix.
And there is a lot to be discussed.
From a few fascinating fights that are preparing throughout the ranking, at a pilot who is at the dawn of a suspension, and another who can be forced to miss his home race due to an injury, there is no shortage of stories.
Let’s dive into the main discussion points for the Canadian Grand Prix.
Recording on F1 Title Races
With the latest triple-head in the rear view mirror, it’s time to check the two title races.
The Spanish Grand Prix offered the last turn to a fascinating F1 pilot championship fight. Lando’s victory in the Monaco Grand Prix pulled him less than three points of teammate Oscar Piastri at the top of the ranking, but Piastri’s command performances in Barcelona pushed this ten -point gap, while he ended up in front of Norris while McLaren locked the first row.
Perhaps more intriguing is what happened behind them. While the grid arrived in Barcelona, Max Verstappen was right next to the pace, just 25 points behind Piastri and 23 points behind Norris. But as we will discuss in a moment, the tenth place from Verstappen to Barcelona – associated with the one -two performance of the McLaren duo – distant it further from the front. While the grid heads towards Montreal Verstappen is 39 points behind Norris and 49 points behind Piastri.
And with George Russell just 26 points behind Verstappen, the gap is reduced behind him too.
As for the manufacturer’s championship race, McLaren remains the class of the field, while the team based at Woking has 362 points this season, which put 197 points from the team in second position.
This team?
Ferrari.
After all the dismay of the past few weeks about Scuderia, a third place by Charles Leclerc and a sixth place in Lewis Hamilton pushed Ferrari in P2, six points from Mercedes and 22 points from Red Bull.
There is a long way to go until the trophies are distributed, but the fighting at the front are really fascinating.
Where is spelling?
In the hours preceding the Spanish Grand Prix, Word broke that the Aston Martin pilot launches Stroll would withdraw from the race, citing the pain in his hands and his wrist. Stroll underwent surgery before the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2023 after a bicycle accident during pre-season training, and made an astonishing return to the grid for the first race of the season, where he finished sixth.
However, his status for this week, his home race is in doubt.
Mike Krack, the team chief officer of the team, relayed that “Plan A” is to walk in the AMR25 this week. But Krack conceded that many is in the air before the teams go to Montreal.
“For the moment, it is really difficult to tell you how it will happen, and what will happen in the coming days, but we will discover it,” said Krack on the official F1 website.
And if the walk cannot run this weekend, there are other complications. Reserve drivers Felipe Drugovich and Stoffel Vandoorne are pending, but both should drive within 24 hours of Le Mans, who conflict with the Canadian Grand Prix. Jak Crawford, who drives in F2 and is part of the Development Program for Aston Martin drivers, is currently not required on his super FIA license.
“It’s quite simple, the” Plan A “is to have a spear in the car – it’s” Plan A “, and that’s what we are working on,” Krack said. “If” plan A “does not work, we have to draw the” plan B “.
“Obviously, we have always known that Le Mans would occur, so we also had plans in place that if we need a driver who does Le Mans, we have brought it, but for the moment, that’s not the only question,” added Krack.
“We are waiting for what the next few days bring, then we make a decision.”
Max Verstappen at the unexpected vacation dawn
The latest triple-head of F1 ended with a penalty, putting the reigning pilot champion on the precipice of a penalty ban on a race.
Max Verstappen’s incident with George Russell in the final stages of the Spanish Grand Prix led not only a ten -second penalty of the race stewards for the Red Bull driver (who dropped him to P10) but a three -point penalty on his super FIA license. This increased the total of the current penalty of Verstappen to 11 points, which put it less from a suspension of a race.
Complicating things is the fact that the next points to expire on the super license in Verstappen, the two he received for an incident with Lando Norris at the Austrian Grand Prix last year, does not express before the end of the month.
This means that Verstappen must navigate both the Canadian Grand Prix this week, and the Austrian Grand Prix later this month, without incident.
All eyes in the second seat of Red Bull … again
Verstappen standing on the precipice of a suspension of a race is not the only major scenario to Red Bull.
It’s time to talk about the second seat … again.
Yuki Tsunoda, operated by the team to replace Liam Lawson after only two races this year, did not deliver the kind of results that Red Bull hopes for their second seat. Tsunoda has only made seven points since its promotion to the senior team, a brand that has seen pilots such as Alexander Albon, Carlos Sainz Jr., Nico Hülkenberg, Esteban Ocon and Yes, Isack Hadjar, overlasses it on this section.
Now there are rumbles that Hadjar could be the next driver to obtain a promotion to Red Bull. “There is a pilot who, according to the bulls, has a style very similar to Max Verstappen. I don’t think it’s ready yet. But Isaac Hadjar is the answer to their problems? ” request Sky Sports F1‘S David Croft in recent days.
“If Hadjar is the closest thing to Max Verstappen, then it has the easier task of adapting to this car, which has been designed and developed more to the taste of Max.
“Red Bull says because Sergio Perez was a little reluctant to come forward to give comments last year, therefore, therefore, the comments were all maximum, therefore, the car went in a maximum direction.”
The number of the second seat in Red Bull has been dwelling since Daniel Ricciardo left the team after the 2018 season, and now even Versappen wonders why it remains a problem for the team.
“Yuki is not a pancake. [with the 2nd Red Bull driver] Continued for a long time, ”told Verstappen to the Spanish Grand Prix.
“Maybe it’s a sign. What can you decide yourself.”
Then there are rumors that the team seeks the approval of Arvid Lindblad, 17, to receive a super FIA license. Lindblad, who is third in the classification of the F2 pilot championship and left a victory in the F2 feature films race at the Spanish Grand Prix, is considered one of the most brilliant talents in sport. But since he has not yet been 18 years old, he would need FIA approval to drive in F1.
He was 18 years old in August.
Could this be a fixed if Verstappen receives a penalty as indicated above? Consideration for another mid-season movement?
Or just more fodder for people like me?
Is the frontage saga settled?
Upon entering the Spanish Grand Prix, the front wings were the paddock conference.
With the sports organization of sport instituting stricter tests on the front wings, to reduce the “Flexi-wing” saga which has dominated the conversation in recent months, there were creeping speculations according to which the new requirements would shake the hierarchical order and perhaps reverse McLaren a little.
The locking of the corresponding front line of Piastri and Norris has ended this speculation, at least for the moment.
Is the “Flexi-Wing” saga really over, or is the Montreal spring a surprise?
Is a new competitor emerged in the fight in the midfield?
Williams was expecting a difficult week in Barcelona, and these premonitions proved to be correct when the team endured their first week of racing without point since the Bahrain Grand Prix. However, they are comfortably seated in fifth place in the manufacturers’ championship race with 54 points, 26 points away from the Visa Cash App racing bulls. Haas is seventh in the table with 26 points, just two behind the VCARB count.
But is a new competitor emerged in Barcelona?
The superb place in the fifth place of Nico Hülkenberg in the Spanish Grand Prix, which included a surpassing of Lewis Hamilton on the penultimate lap, delivered ten massive points for Sauber, powers them to the eighth in the ranking. Although he entered the Spanish Grand Prix in place of the tenth of the manufacturers’ championship, this result brought their count of the season to 16, binding them with Aston Martin but giving Sauber the advantage of the equality break.
Can Sauber continue this momentum in Montreal?
