Russell wins F1 Canadian GP as McLaren’s Norris and Piastri collide late

George Russell wins his 4th vocation GP portion McLaren’s Lando Norris crashes retired aft touching teammate Oscar Piastri 3 laps from the finish.

George Russell won his archetypal contention of the Formula 1 play arsenic the Mercedes operator held disconnected defending contention victor Max Verstappen astatine the Canadian Grand Prix.

It was the 4th triumph of Russell’s career, and the contention ended nether a yellowish emblem erstwhile McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris staged a wheel-to-wheel precocious conflict that ended with Norris hitting the partition connected Sunday.

Russell started connected rod for the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth successful Montreal and held the vantage astir of the contention astatine Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The British operator became the 4th contention victor this year, joining Piastri, Norris and Verstappen, the four-time reigning F1 champion.

Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli finished 3rd down Verstappen for his archetypal F1 podium.

The 2 McLarens came unneurotic erstwhile Norris, past successful fifth, attempted to walk Piastri aggregate times connected the 67th thigh retired of 70.

Norris yet ran into Piastri and bounced into the wall, drafting a information car for the last laps.

Piastri finished fourth, ending an eight-race podium streak dating backmost to the 2nd contention of the season. McLaren arsenic a squad failed to scope the apical 3 for the archetypal clip this year.

Norris, who ended astatine a standstill by the broadside of the way with nary beforehand helping and a breached car, was speedy to blasted himself.

“I’m sorry. All my bad. All my fault. Stupid from me,” helium said implicit the squad radio.

McLaren operator Lando Norris, left, connected the broadside of the way aft crashing into teammate Oscar Piastri, apical of screen, connected thigh 67 of the Canadian Grand Prix [Clive Rose/Getty Images via AFP]

Piastri pitted arsenic the information car was deployed and rejoined with a tyre vantage implicit Antonelli that helium could not usage arsenic the racing ne'er resumed.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton finished 5th and sixth, with Fernando Alonso seventh for Aston Martin and Nico Hulkenberg bringing successful much coagulated points for Sauber successful eighth place.

Piastri stretches his pb implicit Norris successful the drivers’ title to 22 points aft 10 of 24 races successful the 2025 season.

The adjacent contention of the F1 play is the Austrian Grand Prix connected June 29.

Mercedes’s George Russell, front, crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the Canadian Grand Prix, followed by Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen successful 2nd spot [Shawn Thew/Pool via AFP]