Event statistics following the seventh race of the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, the Canadian Grand Prix at the 14-turn, 4.361-kilometer (2.710-mile) Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Sebastian Vettel scored his 50th Formula 1 victory – the fourth driver in series history to reach that mark – after leading every lap. Valtteri Bottas was second, with Max Verstappen completing the podium in third.
(Statistics updated following the exclusion of the final two laps due to the checkered flag coming out early. Notably, Vettel's laps led and the change of the fastest lap have been updated.)
(Statistics updated following the exclusion of the final two laps due to the checkered flag coming out early. Notably, Vettel's laps led and the change of the fastest lap have been updated.)
Race Statistics
Canadian Grand Prix
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Winner (starting position): Sebastian Vettel (1st)
- Podium: Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen
- Full Results: Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Nico Hulkenberg, Carlos Sainz Jr., Esteban Ocon, Charles Leclerc, Pierre Gasly, Romain Grosjean, Kevin Magnussen, Sergio Perez, Marcus Ericsson, Stoffel Vandoorne, Sergey Sirotkin, Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll, Brendon Hartley
- Laps Completed: 68
- Race Leaders: 1
- Laps Led: Sebastian Vettel (68)
- Pole Position: Sebastian Vettel (1 minute, 10.764 seconds)
- Hard Charger: Pierre Gasly (+8; 19th to 11th)
- Fastest Lap: Max Verstappen (1 minute, 13.864 seconds; Lap 65)
- Margin of Victory: 7.376 seconds
- Car Count: 20
- Cars Entered: 20
- Cars Running at Finish: 17 (of 20; or 85 percent of the field)
- Drivers to Finish on Lead Lap: 6
- Average Speed: 206.909 kph/128.567 mph
- Lead Changes: 0
- Safety Car Periods: 1 for 4 laps
- Race Time: 1:28:31.377
- Weather at Start of Race: 73 degrees Fahrenheit, partly cloudy, winds 0 mph
- Weather at End of Race: 71 degrees Fahrenheit, partly cloudy, winds 0 mph
Notes of Interest – Race/Weekend Recap
- This is Sebastian Vettel’s third Formula 1 World Championship victory of the season and the 50th of his career. He is the fourth driver to reach the 50-victory mark, and his 50 wins is one less than four-time champion Alain Prost, who has 51 wins. Michael Schumacher has 91 wins and Lewis Hamilton has 64.
- Vettel is the first driver to win three F1 grand prix this season. He also won the Australian and Bahrain Grand Prix to open the season. Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Ricciardo have two grand prix victories each.
- This is Vettel’s second victory in the Canadian Grand Prix; he also won the race in 2013. Vettel is the ninth driver to win the Canadian Grand Prix at least twice, the eighth in Formula 1 competition (Pedro Rodriguez won in 1963 and 1964 when the race was a sports car event) and sixth at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (Jacky Ickx’s 1969 win came at Mosport and 1970 win at Circuit Mont-Tremblant, while Jackie Stewart’s two victories came at Mosport in 1971 and 1972.
- This is the eighth season in which Vettel has won at least three grand prix in his career. Overall, he’s won in nine of his F1 seasons.
- Vettel won from the pole position, the fourth time a race has been won from the pole this season and second time by Vettel (won the Bahrain Grand Prix from the pole). Overall, this is Vettel’s 31st victory from the pole position.
- This is the fourth consecutive race in which the polesitter has won the Canadian Grand Prix, fifth time in the last six races, and the 19th time overall. Daniel Ricciardo was the last driver to win the race and not the pole position, winning the 2014 event from the sixth starting position.
- This is Vettel’s fourth podium of the season and the 103rd of his career. He’s earned at least four podiums in 10 seasons, all consecutively since 2009.
- Vettel led all 68 laps. It marked his fifth race led this season, which leads all drivers in 2018. Vettel has led a season-high 207 laps.
- This is the second consecutive grand prix that a driver led every lap. Daniel Ricciardo led all 78 laps of the Monaco Grand Prix last month.
- This is the second consecutive Canadian Grand Prix in which a driver led every lap; Lewis Hamilton won the 2017 race after leading all 70 laps.
- Vettel has an average finish of 3.0 through seven races this season; his worst finish is eighth.
- Vettel has earned a points-paying finish in 11 consecutive races, dating back to the 2017 United States Grand Prix.
- Vettel has earned a points-paying finish in 11 consecutive races, dating back to the 2017 United States Grand Prix.
- Vettel now has 54 career pole positions, including a season-high four in seven races this season. He has four poles in each of the last two seasons, and at least four poles in seven seasons.
- Vettel now has four poles at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, including three straight from 2011 to 2013 (all championship-winning seasons).
- Vettel moved into the points lead, by one point over Lewis Hamilton.
- This marked Ferrari’s 232nd F1 victory, and its 13th victory in the Canadian Grand Prix, tying the constructor for most all-time in the event with McLaren. It is Ferrari’s 11th Canadian Grand Prix win in F1, as the 1963 and 1964 wins by Pedro Rodriguez came in sports car competition.
- This is the first victory for Ferrari at the Canadian Grand Prix since 2004, the final of three consecutive wins for the constructor and driver Michael Schumacher.
- The polesitter has led the first lap of an F1 grand prix in eight consecutive races, dating back to last season’s finale, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Valtteri Bottas was the last polesitter that did not lead the first lap of a race, the 2017 Grand Prix of Brazil, and is also the last polesitter that failed to lead any lap of a grand prix, also in the 2017 Grand Prix of Brazil.
- Valtteri Bottas finished second, his fourth runner-up finish this season. He’s finished in the points in six of the seven races this season. It marked Bottas’s 26th career podium (out of 104 races, good enough for 25 percent of grand prix), and fourth in the Canadian Grand Prix, all in succession (third in 2015 and 2016 and second in 2017 and 2018).
- Bottas moved into third in the points standings, two points ahead of Daniel Ricciardo, who fell to fourth.
- Bottas has finished on the podium in seven of the last 10 races, dating back to the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix.
- Finland has more podiums of any country this season, with nine.
- Max Verstappen finished third, his second podium of the season, all in the last three races (also finished third in the Spanish Grand Prix).
- Verstappen set the fastest lap on Lap 65, at 1 minute, 13.864 seconds. He was awarded fastest lap when teammate Daniel Ricciardo’s lap of 1 minute, 13.839 seconds, on Lap 69, was rescinded, due to the checkered flag coming out early.
- Verstappen set the fastest lap on Lap 65, at 1 minute, 13.864 seconds. He was awarded fastest lap when teammate Daniel Ricciardo’s lap of 1 minute, 13.839 seconds, on Lap 69, was rescinded, due to the checkered flag coming out early.
- Red Bull Racing has had at least one driver finish on the podium in four of the last five races.
- Daniel Ricciardo finished fourth, his third consecutive finish in the top five.
- Lewis Hamilton, who entered the race with a three race-winning streak in Canada, finished fifth, his worst finish of the season. Still, he holds an average finish of 2.71 this season.
- Hamilton’s fifth-place finish was his worst result in the Canadian Grand Prix since finishing 17th in the 2014 race. Hamilton started fourth, his second worst starting position in Canada (started fifth in 2011 race). Going into the race, he had started on the front row in six consecutive Canadian Grand Prix.
- Hamilton has finished in the points in 32 consecutive grand prix, extending his record.
- Kimi Raikkonen finished sixth, the final driver to finish on the lead lap.
- Nico Hulkenberg was the first driver to finish one lap down, as he garnered seventh. Renault Sport F1 Team teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. was eighth. It was Hulkenberg’s fifth points finish of 2018 and Sainz’s sixth, including fifth in a row.
- Esteban Ocon finished ninth, his third top-10 finish and second straight.
- Rookie Charles Leclerc was 10th, earning his third points-paying finish, all in the last four grand prix.
- Sergey Sirotkin was the final driver to finish the race, in 17th.
- In his 300th entry and 298th start, Fernando Alonso retired after 43 laps, the result exhaust failure. It marks Alonso’s eighth retirement in the Canadian Grand Prix and at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the most of any grand prix and any track in his F1 career.
- Montreal native Lance Stroll was involved in a first-lap incident with Brendon Hartley; Stroll was seeking to become the second Canadian to win the event. It marked Stroll’s first retirement of the 2018 season and first retirement since the 2017 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.
- Meanwhile, this is Hartley’s third retirement of 2018, fifth in 11 F1 races and second in succession, as he retired due to an incident two races in a row (also crashed in Monaco Grand Prix).
- Stroll and Hartley’s incident forced a safety car, marking the fourth time in the last eight Canadian Grand Prix the safety car was deployed following a first-lap accident.
- The next round of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship is the Pirelli Grand Prix de France on Sunday, June 24, at the 15-turn, 5.842-kilometer Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France.
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