Max Verstappen added another victory to his career and in the season in the Canadian Grand Prixalthough the bad news for Running of the red bulls was abandonment Sergio “Checo” Perez.

The Dutch driver revalidated his pole position at the Circuit Gilles Villenueve and took his sixth victory of the season. carlos holy (2nd) and Lewis Hamilton (3rd) completes the podium. Charles Leclerc finished fifth.

‘Checo’ Pérez retired on lap 8 apparently due to a gearbox failure in his RB18 single-seater. “A sentence. Everything went wrong for us this weekend. Starting from scratch,” he commented to Fox Sports.

English george Russell (Mercedes) finished fourth, ahead of Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), protagonist of the day’s comeback, starting nineteenth and finishing fifth.

French Etienne Or with (Alpine) finished sixth, one place ahead of his Spanish teammate, Fernando Alonsowho, after a troubled start to the season, scored points for the fourth time in a row and is already tenth in the championship, with 22 points.

The two Alfa Romeo drivers, the Finn Valtteri boots and the Chinese Guanyu zhou, finished eighth and ninth respectively; a race in which the Canadian also scored points in front of his home crowd To throw To stroll (Aston Martin).

Canadian GP results:

1. Max Verstappen
2. carlos sainz
3. Lewis Hamilton
4. george russell
5. Charles Leclerc
6. Stephen Ocon
7. Fernando Alonso
8. Valtteri Bottas
9. Guanyu-Zhou
10. Spear Stroll

Verstappen, who took his twenty-sixth victory in the premier class, now leads the Drivers’ Championship with 175 points46 more than his teammate, the Mexican Sergio Pérez, who retained his second place in the championship despite his retirement, due to a gearbox failure of his Red Bull, in the ninth of the 70 laps.

Leclerc is third, with 126 units, fifteen more than Russell and 24 ahead of Sainz, who retained his fifth place overall after having his best race of the season.

Red Bull remains top of the constructors’ championship with 304 dotsyes, 76 more than Ferrari.

The next test, British Grand Prixa, will take place on July 3 at the Silverstone circuit (England).

(With information from EFE)