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A race that didn't see a McLaren driver winning in the end, in fact, not one McLaren driver finishing on the podium, Lando Norris hammering his own event, and a contest where even the most consistent drivers such as Albon failed to finish the contest, Canada was epic, lit and eventually, had a 'silver lining' for the Mercedes team. It was also, rather remarkably, a race where no one on the filed had a tough day out with Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
But which key monents defined the recently completed 70-lap Canadian Grand Prix?
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Russell shows muscle at Montreal
What an emphatic, brave and eminent drive that was from George Russell, who not only secured a flag to finish win in the end, but actually struck a Grand slam at the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix by also setting the fastest lap of the race.
Across the 70-lap tussle, Russell never looked under pressure, had his pits finely timed and brilliantly executed and it could be said, gave courtesy his win, something for McLaren and Red Bull to think about.
The sheer race pace was a bit surprising, wouldn't you think, for both McLaren and Red Bull teams? Especially since the McLaren's collided under pressure while chasing him for the race lead.
In the end, holding off Verstappen brilliantly in the final stages before the safety car deployment highlighted Russell's excellent ability in maintaining the gap to the Red Bull driver.
But how so?
He was just a second out in the lead over a fast-catching Max with around three or four laps to go; a lead he'd immediately stretch to a 1.5 second gap, thereby demonstrating excellent race pace at the decisive moments of round 10 of the 2025 F1 season.
Carlos Sainz drives home to Williams' only points
What a fantastic drive it was in the end for the often struggling but always improving Carlos Sainz, who at Montreal, picked up a hard-fought P10.
His pass over Bortoleto and later, Colapinto suggested the fighting Spaniard is keen to up his game and always push an extra bit harder, something that defines the DNA of a quintessential F1 driver.
In a race to forget for his great teammate, Alex Albon, who has done such a tremendous job this season, Sainz's tenth meant one point for his competitive Williams team.
Thankfully, it could be argued, Sainz faced no such engine power unit issue as his teammate and in the end, it was great news for Williams.
But can Carlos do much better in what's to come? In this event's qualifying round, his performance was severaly hampered by others impeding his quali run in Q1 at Montreal. And that wasn't the greatest of feelings.
Forza Fernando
For someone who, just a few days ago, felt a massive reprieve in finally scoring points, albeit not before entering the ninth Grand Prix of the season, the Fernando Alonso at Canada this weekend was an even better version of his own self a fortnight ago, at Spain.
While he finally scored that respectable but hard-fought P9 at Spain, his home Grand Prix and thus, ended the points drought, Alonso at Montreal was the fighting bull who scored a seventh. And in so doing, he actually became the only point scorer for his struggling Aston Martin team.
Finally, after months of struggling in the ongoing title fight that sees McLaren and Red Bull involved in a close tussle, it could be said, midifielders like Fernando Alonso are rising to the occasion.
There's little doubt how he could still perform if given the seat in the other Red Bull, for instance, that sees a struggling Yuki Tsunoda, but it's what it is at the moment for the double world champion.
It could be argued this valiant seventh at Canada will spur Alonso to further pick himself up in the races to come.
Grande Kimi
The youngest podium scorer in modern F1 history was once Fernando Alonso, then Sebastian Vettel and now, is a certain Kimi.
Even Raikkonen, it could be argued, would be happy for this Kimi, in particular.
But for Antonelli, the fighting third not only ensured his finest current F1 moment, the 2025 season being his debut year in the pinnacle in the world of single-seater FIA racing, it helped Mercedes achieve their maiden 1-3 finish this season.
Controlling his tyre-ware excellently in a race where even the big names on the circuit such as Alonso were struggling, Antonelli scored a breezy podium, in all likelihood, the first of others to come this year.
