Verstappen wins gripping wet-dry race in Canada

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won a gripping wet-dry Canadian Grand Prix that developed into a five-car conflict for nan lead complete nan last 10 laps.

Verstappen expertly managed a restart aft a safety-car play pinch 11 laps to spell to bolt into a decisive lead while McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri fought pinch nan Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell down him.

Verstappen pulled retired astir 2 seconds successful 1 thigh and controlled nan title to nan extremity from there.

Norris had doubly led nan title earlier connected arsenic conditions fluctuated betwixt bedewed and barren but mislaid it each clip by stopping a thigh later than Verstappen.

And successful nan closing laps he could not do thing astir nan world champion erstwhile it mattered and had to settee for second.

Russell passed Hamilton pinch 3 laps to spell to return nan last podium spot but whitethorn beryllium ruing a mates of cardinal errors during a title that he started from his first rod position for astir 2 years.

Hamilton took 4th spot up of Piastri pinch nan Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso sixth.

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