Max Verstappen Dominates Canadian Grand Prix as Checo Pérez Battles for Redemption

2023-06-18 17:06:00

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Max Verstappen is heading for another victory, can Mercedes or Alonso stop him? How far can Checo Pérez come back?

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RACE RESTARTVUELTA 17 DE 70. Verstappen P1…

With all the stops in pits, this is how the top 10 will restart, from fourth to eighth, they did not go through pits:

1. VERSTAPPEN

2. Hamilton

3. Alonso

4. Leclerc

5. Sainz

6. Pérez

7. Magnussen

8. Bottas

9. Ocon

10. Plates

Russell over-braked in Turn 4 and hit the car very hard. There is Safety Car. This doesn’t help the Mexican driver’s strategy, he needed the rest to wear out the tyre, but, on the other hand, these hard tires might last him to go for a one-stop option.

Hulkenberg went to the pits, it’s lap 12 with a medium tire, and he cleared the way for the train he was stopping. Russell with right rear tire issues. Several took the opportunity to go to the pits: Verstappen, Hamilton and Alonso… Alonso and Hamilton almost hit each other on pit road.

The race is restarted. On lap 9 of 70.

Virtual Safety Car. Sargeant’s Williams stayed.

Alonso’s quick lap. The Asturian attacks Hamilton for P2.

Verstappen’s fastest lap and he already put 1.1 seconds on Hamilton. The DRS already enabled, but the fast Dutchman put land in the middle. Alonso is eight tenths behind Hamilton and can attack him with the DRS. This will be an interesting battle.

Max Verstappen maintains the first position; Hamilton passed Alonso and the Englishman is second with the Asturian third. Checo Pérez attacked Sainz’s Ferrari and passed him for a good stretch of the lap, but the Spaniard passed him under braking at the last chicane and remains P12. Sainz with a medium tire and Checo with a hard tire.

THE GRAND PRIX OF CANADA STARTED…

Checo Pérez, Magnussen and Bottas will start with tough ones; with soft only Pierre Gasly. The rest goes with means.

Drivers and cars in position. Formation lap in minutes.

Grille output:

1. VERSTAPEN

2. Alonso

3. Hamilton

4. Russell

5. Hulkenberg

6. Ocon

7. Norris

8. Plates

9. Albon

10. Leclerc

11. Sainz

12. Checo Perez

13. Magnussen

14. Bottas

15. Gasly

16. Stroll

17. DeVries

18. Sargeant

19. Tsunoda

20. Zhou

Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on the artificial island of Notre-Dame in Montreal. It is a 4.3 kilometer semi-urban track. There will be 70 laps to complete the 305.27 kilometer race. It received the highest category for the first time in 1978.

Strategies according to Pirelli:

• Two stops: starting on a medium tire until lap 15 or 22 and then going hard until lap 40 or 48 and finally another set of hard to finish the race.

• One stop: start on hard tire until lap 43 or 50; move to the medium compound and end the race with this (interesting in the case of Checo Pérez).

• Two stops: start with socks until 15 or 22 and put hard; then go to lap 43 or 50 and finish with a medium tire.

• One stop: start with the average until 20 or 27 and finish the race on the hard tire (this is also interesting for the Mexican, who has to come back).

Checo Perez will run his eleventh Canadian Grand Prix, will start from 12th position. The Mexican is under pressure to get good results, following the mistakes in the Monaco GP y spain and recently the bad classification in Montreal.

The driver from Guadalajara does not have a good track record on the circuit Gilles Villeneuvesince he has only been able to advance to Q3 three times, where he has an eighth place as his best qualifying record in the 2017 edition.

Nor have the results been optimal for Czech PIt isrez in the race, who has a podium (2012), a fifth place (2017) and another tenth place (2016), as the only occasions he has been able to finish in the points area.

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In fact, his first experience in the canada GP it was not the most pleasant. In 2011, Checo Perez He came from a serious accident in the Monaco GP that prevented him from running that day and during practice at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit, he became nauseated as a result of the same incident and ended up absenting himself for the rest of the weekend due to medical indications.

He would have his revenge a year later, when he was able to get on the podium following sealing third place in 2012. Checo Perez started fifteenth and as is the tradition in his driving style, he managed the tires perfectly on board the Sauber to go up and take a second bath of champagne in the F1.

However, Checo Perez He experienced one of the most bitter moments of his sports career in 2014. Once once more, the Guadalajara driver caressed the podium with the same strategy used two years ago. But in the last lap following a fierce battle to defend his position, Felipe Massa it hits the Mexican’s car and both drivers end up once morest the wall. He not only missed the podium that day, but he also received a penalty. Checo Perez for the incident.

Another episode he was involved in was once morest Esteban Ocon. Force India was coming off a great season in 2017 and both drivers were close to sealing a great result for the team. But at the end of the race, the Frenchman asked the team to Checo Perez give him his position to be able to fight for the podium. The surprise for his teammate was the Mexican’s denial, which led to a tough defense that the Guadalajara ended up winning, but aggravated the tense relationship between the two runners.

In his only run with Red Bull in this great prize, Checo Perez first he had a bitter classification to start thirteenth. Things mightn’t get any better for race day and he ended up retiring on lap 7 with gearbox problems.

At the moment, Checo Perez He is second in the drivers’ championship with 117 points, just below his teammate Max Verstappen who adds 170 points following seven grand prix contested in the 2023 season of the F1.

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